Treasury Backdrop

Free

Treasury General Account balance, public debt and major foreign holders of Treasury securities.

About this dataset

Treasury Backdrop is a Free dataset in the Industry & Macro group of the BankRegReports Data API. It is sourced from US Treasury.

The Treasury General Account closing balance (USD millions), total public debt (USD) daily and at each fiscal year end, and the Treasury International Capital major foreign holders (USD billions). The TIC totals are the Treasury's own lines and are not sums of the country rows.

Endpoint

GET /api/v1/industry/treasury-backdrop/

Parameters

Name	Required	Description
period	optional	TIC month, YYYY-MM-DD. e.g. 2026-07-31

Example request

curl "https://api.bankregreports.com/api/v1/industry/treasury-backdrop/" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BANKREG_API_TOKEN"

Responses are JSON in a {"data": ..., "meta": {...}} envelope. Get a token on the setup page.

When to use it

Treasury Backdrop sits in the Industry & Macro group of the Data API. Reach for it when your work needs this data straight from the API: it comes back as JSON you can load into a notebook, a spreadsheet or a scheduled pipeline, with the dataset key treasury_backdrop naming it the same way in the REST path, the Python SDK and the OpenAPI document.

Access and authentication

This dataset is in the Free tier. Send your API token in the Authorization header as a Bearer token, using a GET request to the endpoint above. The Free plan is the first plan that includes it. Check the plan comparison for request limits, and the data update schedule for when new filings reach the API.

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Keep going

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Python SDK

The Python SDK does not have a method for this dataset yet. Call the REST endpoint above with any HTTP client.