Licensed public data feed

Quarterly credit union data for internal vendor, consultant, and analyst systems.

CU Wire Data sells clean public data access, not analysis, lead intelligence, or editorial influence. The paid feed is built for teams that already have their own models and need reliable quarterly data delivery plus a narrow, documented API-key surface.

Licensed access from $500/mo · $5,000/yr prepaid · custom bulk & partner tiers on request.

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4,250federally insured CU profiles

3,2495300 account codes

17,209verified branch rows

13.8Maccount-value rows

Included

Quarterly 5300 financials and account-code values.
Institution identity, status, assets, members, and selected history.
LID, CDFI, and MDI public designation flags.
Enforcement, merger, closure, HMDA, CUSO, and FedNow public-data modules.
Raw office locations plus verified branch locations split into separate files.

Excluded

CEO bios, leadership notes, personal contact data, emails, and LinkedIn profiles.
CU Wire editorial notes, unpublished reporting, source notes, or story planning.
Vendor lead scoring, private relationship context, and customer-specific integrations.
Any right to shape, preview, suppress, or influence editorial coverage.

Delivery

Paid Data Access is issued after approval as a quarterly bulk package, schema, manifest, hashes, source periods, plain-language data license, and bearer-token API key.

Package

The Q1 2026 package includes CSV/JSONL institution files, quarterly financials, account-code values, branch files, designations, regulatory events, HMDA, CUSO, FedNow, and a data dictionary.

What a license buys

A license buys data delivery convenience: normalized public data, stable identifiers, documented fields, current-quarter packaging, authenticated delivery, and internal-use rights. It does not buy consulting work, implementation, custom ETL, or special editorial treatment.

The first paid package is Q1 2026. It ships as a compressed CSV/JSON package with a manifest, schema, data license summary, and loading notes.

CU Wire supports package delivery and license questions. Customer teams handle ingestion into their own internal tools and data systems.

V1 API surface

Data Access keys are bearer tokens scoped to read-only licensed data delivery. They do not unlock subscriber app endpoints or person-level executive intelligence.

Download the OpenAPI spec for the supported v1 endpoints.

Authorization: Bearer <CUWIREDATA_API_KEY>

Endpoint	Purpose
`GET /api/data-feed?period=2026-Q1`	Returns the deployable manifest, coverage, file list, checksums, and authenticated download hrefs.
`GET /api/data-feed?period=2026-Q1&file=archive`	Issues a short-lived broker link for the full quarterly package.
`GET /api/data-feed?period=2026-Q1&file=institutions.csv`	Issues a short-lived broker link for a single file when file delivery is configured.
`GET /api/cuwiredata-cu-summary`	Returns the current system summary: period, total credit unions, assets, loans, shares, and members.
`GET /api/cuwiredata-institutions?state=NC&limit=25`	Returns a paginated, filterable institution list with readable field names, profile links, assets, members, and key ratios.
`GET /api/cuwiredata-institution?charter=66310`	Returns one current institution profile: balances, ratios, named benchmark percentiles, capitalization classification, branch count, and compact history.

The interactive app APIs remain session-authenticated product endpoints. Data Access customers receive the documented feed/API surface above unless a broader enterprise integration is separately scoped.

Request data access

Tell us who you are and how you'll use the feed. We license access after a brief review — most requests are turned around within two business days.