Mansa African Financial Reference Data

io.github.HeyZodPublished by GitHub account HeyZodv1.0.0Updated Oct 25, 2026

African bank & SWIFT codes, NUBAN resolution, mobile networks, holidays and ISO 4217 currencies.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

A remote MCP server for African financial reference data: bank and SWIFT/BIC codes, NUBAN checksum resolution, mobile networks, public holidays and ISO 4217 cur

What you can do
Look up African banks by name, bank/sort code, SWIFT/BIC or USSD shortcode, including reverse lookup from a bare code, and list all banks held for a country with codes and mobile-money flags.
When to use it
Use it when an assistant needs African banking reference data: identifying an institution from a code, building a bank picker, shortlisting which Nigerian banks a NUBAN could belong to, routing mobile-money by network, or checking holidays and currency details.
Requirements
A remote Streamable HTTP endpoint; no API key, environment variables or headers are declared. The server is stateless, so no session handling is needed.
Before you install
resolve_nuban confirms checksum validity only; it does not confirm an account exists and never returns an account holder's name. Queries, including phone numbers and account numbers, are sent to the third-party Mansa API host.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Mansa African Financial Reference Data in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.HeyZod%2Fmansa-african-identity/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mansa-african-financial-reference-data": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mansaapi.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Mansa African Financial Reference Data — MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server giving any MCP-capable agent live access to African financial reference data: bank and SWIFT/BIC codes, NUBAN account resolution, mobile network lookup, public holidays, and ISO 4217 currencies.

Hosted and maintained by Mansa API. No API key required.

Connect

Streamable HTTP endpoint:

https://mansaapi.com/api/mcp

Claude Desktop

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "mansa-african-identity": {      "type": "http",      "url": "https://mansaapi.com/api/mcp"    }  }}

Anything else

Point your MCP client at the URL above. The server speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over Streamable HTTP and is stateless, so no session handling is required. A plain GET returns the server descriptor.

Tools

ToolWhat it does
lookup_bankIdentify an African bank from a name, bank/sort code, SWIFT/BIC or USSD shortcode. Works as a reverse lookup — pass a bare code like NLCBTZTX and get the institution back.
list_banksEvery bank held for a country, with codes and mobile-money flag.
resolve_nubanWhich Nigerian banks a 10-digit NUBAN account number is checksum-valid for. Typically narrows ~30 banks to ~3.
lookup_phone_networkResolve an African phone number to its mobile network operator.
get_public_holidaysPublic holidays for a country and year. English by default, with lang for local languages.
get_currencyISO 4217 record: code, name, symbol, decimal places, and every country using it.

Coverage

Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Zambia and Tanzania for banks and mobile networks; holidays and currencies span the wider continent.

Worth knowing

resolve_nuban confirms checksum validity only. The CBN NUBAN check digit is derived from the bank code plus the first nine digits of the account number, so testing a number against every bank code narrows down where it could be held — without contacting any bank.

It does not confirm that an account exists, and it never returns an account holder's name. That requires a licensed NIBSS account-name enquiry.

Related

Mansa API also publishes io.github.HeyZod/mansa-african-markets for live African stock market data — a separate server with a different audience.

License

MIT for this manifest. The hosted service is governed by the Mansa API terms.

Source: README.md at commit c087495

Tools

6

lookup_bank

Look up an African bank by name or code

Identify an African bank from any identifier you hold: its name, domestic sort/bank code, SWIFT/BIC code, or USSD shortcode. Works as a reverse lookup, so pass a bare SWIFT code like 'NLCBTZTX' to find out which institution it belongs to. Returns the bank's name, country, type, bank code, SWIFT/BIC, USSD shortcode and whether it supports mobile money.

Parameterslimitqueryrequiredcountry

list_banks

List banks in a country

List every bank and financial institution held for a country, with its bank code, SWIFT/BIC, USSD shortcode and mobile-money flag. Use this to build a bank picker or to reconcile a list of institutions.

Parameterscountryrequiredmobile_money_only

resolve_nuban

Resolve a Nigerian account number to its possible banks

Work out which Nigerian banks a 10-digit NUBAN account number could belong to. The CBN check digit is computed from the bank code plus the first nine digits, so testing the number against every bank code narrows a shortlist without contacting any bank. Typically reduces ~30 banks to ~3. This confirms checksum validity only: it does NOT confirm the account exists, and it never returns the account holder's name, which requires a licensed NIBSS account-name enquiry.

Parametersaccountrequiredbank_code

lookup_phone_network

Identify the mobile network for an African phone number

Resolve an African phone number to its mobile network operator from the number's prefix. Accepts local or international format. Useful for routing a mobile-money payout to the right provider or validating a number before sending an OTP.

Parametersphonerequired

get_public_holidays

Get public holidays for an African country and year

Return the public holidays for a country and calendar year, with each holiday's date, name and type. Names are returned in English wherever the country publishes it; pass a language code for others (Kenya also publishes Swahili).

Parameterslangyearrequiredcountryrequired

get_currency

Get ISO 4217 details for an African currency

Return the ISO 4217 record for a currency: its code, name, symbol, how many decimal places it uses, and every country that uses it.

Parameterscoderequired

Version history

1
  1. v1.0.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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