HeyZod/mansa-african-identity-mcp

MCP server for African financial reference data — bank & SWIFT codes, NUBAN resolution, mobile networks, holidays, ISO 4217 currencies. Hosted by Mansa API, no key required. # 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: ``` mansaapi.com ``` ### Claude Desktop ```json { "mcpServers": { "mansa-african-identity": { "type": "http", "url": "mansaapi.com" } } } ``` ### 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 | Tool | What it does | |---|---| | `lookup_bank` | Identify 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_banks` | Every bank held for a country, with codes and mobile-money flag. | | `resolve_nuban` | Which Nigerian banks a 10-digit NUBAN account number is checksum-valid for. Typically narrows ~30 banks to ~3. | | `lookup_phone_network` | Resolve an African phone number to its mobile network operator. | | `get_public_holidays` | Public holidays for a country and year. English by default, with `lang` for local languages. | | `get_currency` | ISO 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 ba …