HMDA Platform Filing API

The following documentation outlines the submission of HMDA data using the Filing API.

This API powers the HMDA Filing application

Authorization

Please note: Starting on January 1st 2025, for the 2025 HMDA Filling season, all users will be required to authenticate using Login.gov. In order to integrate with the HMDA Platform using Login.gov please contact HMDA Help (hmdahelp@cfpb.gov).

To file HMDA data using the Filing API, a bearer authorization token is required for all Filing API calls. To acquire an authorization token use the /auth endpoint with your username and password as payload.

For local development, no authorization is needed. See One-line Local Development Environment (No Auth) for more info.

Request

TOKEN=$(curl -s 'https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/auth/realms/hmda2/protocol/openid-connect/token'
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
--data-urlencode 'client_id=hmda2-api'
--data-urlencode 'grant_type=password'
--data-urlencode 'username=xxxx'
--data-urlencode 'password=xxx' | jq .""access_token"" | tr -d '"') && echo $TOKEN

| | ---|--- Method | POST URL | https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/auth/realms/hmda2/protocol/openid-connect/token Payload | client_id=hmda2-api
grant_type=password
username={{username}}@{{bank_domain}}
password={{password}}

Error Messages

error	error_description	explanation
invalid_grant	Account is not fully set up	Either the `password` needs to be reset or the `email` needs to be verified..
invalid_grant	Account disabled	Please contact HMDA Help (hmdahelp@cfpb.gov) in order to re-enable the account.
invalid_grant	Invalid user credentials	The `username` or `password` provided is incorrect.

Password Policy

Users must reset their password every 90 days. This 90 days is from when the account's password was last set.
Passwords must:
- Be at least 12 characters
- Have at least 1 uppercase character
- Have at least 1 lowercase character
- Have at least 1 numerical character
- Have at least 1 special character
- Not be the same as your username

Postman Collection

The HMDA Postman Collection has been prepared to simplify the process of using the HMDA Platform Filing APIs.

Postman is a client side application that allows users to easily construct API calls and import external API collections.

Filing Process

Submission of a HMDA file flows in the following steps which are mirrored in the Submission status codes:

Create a Filing: There is one Filing per institution, per filing season. This Filing is created by the HMDA Operations team in preperation for each filing season.
Create a Submission: Submissions are created within a Filing, each representing a single file upload. Many Submissions can be created for a Filing. Each new Submission is assigned a sequentially incremented ID.
Upload a File: A file is then uploaded to the Submission that was created. Only one file can be uploaded per Submission. To upload a new file you must create a new Submission.
Check the status of the Submission: If a Submission triggers Syntactical or Validity Edits, a corrected file must be uploaded.
Validate Quality Edits: Review any Quality Edits that have been triggered and confirm that the submitted data are correct.
Validate Macro Edits: Review any Macro Edits that have been triggered and confirm that the submitted data are correct.
Sign the Submission: Perform final review of the data and complete the HMDA filing.

Object Hierarchy

filing heirarchy

Submission Status

The Submission status is the best way to check the state of a Filing. It will be useful to query the Submission status often throughout the process of file upload and Edit validation.

JSON Response:

{
  "id": {
    "lei": "12345abc",
    "period": "2020",
    "sequenceNumber": 3
  },
  "status": {
    "code": 1,
    "message": "No data has been uploaded yet.",
    "description": "The filing period is open and available to accept HMDA data. Make sure your data is in a pipe-delimited text file."
  },
  "start": 0,
  "end": 0,
  "fileName": "test.txt",
  "receipt": ""
}

Submission Status Codes

In order to track the status of a Filing for a financial institution, the following states are captured by the HMDA Platform:

Code	Message	Description
1	No data has been uploaded yet.	The filing period is open and available to accept HMDA data. Make sure your data is in a pipe-delimited text file.
2	Your file is uploading.	Your file is currently being uploaded to the HMDA Platform.
3	Your file has been uploaded.	Your data is ready to be analyzed.
4	Checking the formatting of your data.	Your file is being analyzed to ensure that it meets formatting requirements specified in the HMDA Filing Instructions Guide.
5	Your data has formatting errors.	Review these errors and update your file. Then, upload the corrected file.
6	Your data is formatted correctly.	Your file meets the formatting requirements specified in the HMDA Filing Instructions Guide. Your data will now be analyzed for any edits.
7	Your data is being analyzed.	Your data has been uploaded and is being checked for any edits.
8	Your data has been analyzed for Syntactical and Validity Errors.	Your file has been analyzed and does not contain any Syntactical or Validity errors.
9	Your data has syntactical and/or validity edits that need to be reviewed.	Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until the file is corrected and re-uploaded.
10	Your data has been analyzed for Quality Errors.	Your file has been analyzed, and does not contain quality errors.
11	Your data has quality edits that need to be reviewed.	Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded.
12	Your data has been analyzed for macro errors.	Your file has been analyzed, and does not contain macro errors.
13	Your data has macro edits that need to be reviewed.	Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded.
14	Your data is ready for submission.	Your financial institution has certified that the data is correct, but it has not been submitted yet.
15	Your submission has been accepted.	This completes your HMDA filing process for this year. If you need to upload a new HMDA file, the previously completed filing will not be overridden until all edits have been cleared and verified, and the new file has been submitted.
-1	An error occurred while submitting the data.	Please re-upload your file.

Endpoints

Start a Filing

For every filing period, you must begin by starting a Filing. This only needs to be done once per filing season. On the official HMDA Platform this Filing will have already been created by the HMDA Operations team. The POST will result in a 200 only for the first time it's called. If the filing for the given filing period already exists, the POST will return a 400.

Method: POST
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/2020" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer  {{access_token}}' \

Response:

{
    "filing": {
        "period": "2020",
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "status": {
            "code": 2,
            "message": "in-progress"
        },
        "filingRequired": true,
        "start": 1572378187454,
        "end": 0
    },
    "submissions": []
}

Get a Filing

This endpoint can be used to confirm that a Filing exists for the relevant period.

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer  {{access_token}}' \

Response:

{
    "filing": {
        "period": "2020",
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "status": {
            "code": 2,
            "message": "in-progress"
        },
        "filingRequired": true,
        "start": 1572378187454,
        "end": 0
    },
    "submissions": []
}

Create a Submission

A Submission must be created for each file upload. More than one Submission can be created for a filing period. The most recent Submission will be considered the Latest Submission. Each POST on the Submission endpoint will return a new Submission sequenceNumber.

Method: POST
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions
Headers: {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \

Response:

{
    "id": {
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "period": "2020",
        "sequenceNumber": 10
    },
    "status": {
        "code": 1,
        "message": "No data has been uploaded yet.",
        "description": "The filing period is open and available to accept HMDA data. Make sure your data is in a pipe-delimited text file."
    },
    "start": 1572358820303,
    "end": 0,
    "fileName": "",
    "receipt": ""
}

Get the Latest Submission

Returns details about the last created Submission including its sequence number and status.

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/latest
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/latest" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \

Response:

{
    "id": {
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "period": "2020",
        "sequenceNumber": 10
    },
    "status": {
        "code": 13,
        "message": "Your data has macro edits that need to be reviewed.",
        "description": "Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded."
    },
    "start": 1572372016130,
    "end": 0,
    "fileName": "clean_file_10.txt",
    "receipt": "",
    "qualityVerified": false,
    "macroVerified": false,
    "qualityExists": true,
    "macroExists": true
}

Upload a File

Upload a file to a Submission.

Method: POST
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}, 'Content-Type': multipart/form-data
Payload: LAR file

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/10" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  -H 'content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW' \
  -F file=<file.csv>

Response:

{
    "id": {
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "period": "2020",
        "sequenceNumber": 10
    },
    "status":{
        "code": 3,
        "message": "Your file has been uploaded.",
        "description": "Your data is ready to be analyzed."
    },
    "start": 1572372016130,
    "end": 0,
    "fileName": "",
    "receipt": ""
}

View Parsing Errors

Returns a list of all parsing errors triggered by the file uploaded to a Submission.

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/parseErrors
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/10/parseErrors" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}'

Response

{
    "transmittalSheetErrors": [],
    "larErrors": [],
    "count": 0,
    "total": 0,
    "status": {
        "code": 5,
        "message": "Your data has formatting errors.",
        "description": "Review these errors and update your file. Then, upload the corrected file."
    },
    "_links": {
        "href": "/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/24/parseErrors{rel}",
        "self": "?page=1",
        "first": "?page=1",
        "prev": "?page=1",
        "next": "?page=0",
        "last": "?page=0"
    }
}

View All Edits

Returns a summary of all Edits triggered by an upload in a Submission.

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/24/edits" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}'

Response:

{
    "syntactical": {
        "edits": []
    },
    "validity": {
        "edits": []
    },
    "quality": {
        "edits": [
            {
                "edit": "Q630",
                "description": "If Total Units is greater than or equal to 5, then HOEPA Status generally should equal 3."
            },
            {
                "edit": "Q631",
                "description": "If Loan Type equals 2, 3 or 4, then Total Units generally should be less than or equal to 4."
            }
        ],
        "verified": false
    },
    "macro": {
        "edits": [
            {
                "edit": "Q637",
                "description": "No more than 15% of the loans in the file should report Action Taken equals 5. Your data indicates a percentage outside of this range."
            }
        ],
        "verified": false
    },
    "status": {
        "code": 13,
        "message": "Your data has macro edits that need to be reviewed.",
        "description": "Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded.",
        "qualityVerified": false,
        "macroVerified": false
    }
}

View Edit Details

Returns detailed information about a specific Edit, including a list of lines that triggered the Edit and the relevant fields from those lines.

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits/{{edit_code}}
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/24/edits/Q631" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}'

Response:

{
    "edit": "Q631",
    "rows": [
        {
           "id": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LDHHXWCDPM0ZEHW08FFTXGRXT62",
           "fields": [
               {
                   "name": "Loan Type",
                   "value": "3"
               },
               {
                   "name": "Total Units",
                   "value": "16"
               }
           ]
       }
   ],
   "count": 20,
   "total": 54,
   "_links": {
       "href": "/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/24/edits/Q631{rel}",
       "self": "?page=1",
       "first": "?page=1",
       "prev": "?page=1",
       "next": "?page=2",
       "last": "?page=3"
   }
}

Verify Quality Edits

Verify that the uploaded data is correct and that the reported Quality Edits are not relevent to the Submission.

Method: POST
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits/quality
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}
Body: {"verified": true}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits/quality" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  -d '{"verified": true}'

Response:

{
    "verified": true,
    "status": {
        "code": 13,
        "message": "Your data has macro edits that need to be reviewed.",
        "description": "Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded."
    }
}

Verify Macro Edits

Verify that the uploaded data is correct and that the reported Macro Edits are not relevent to the Submission.

Method: POST
Endpoint | https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits/macro
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}
Body: {"verified": true/false}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/edits/macro" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  -d '{"verified": true}'

Response:

{
    "verified": true,
    "status": {
        "code": 14,
        "message": "Your data is ready for submission.",
        "description": "Your financial institution has certified that the data is correct, but it has not been submitted yet."
    }
}

Sign a Submission

Sign and complete a HMDA Submission.

Method: POST
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/sign
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}
Body: {"signed": true/false}

Example

Request:

curl -X POST \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/sign" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \
  -d '{"signed": true}'

Response:

{
    "email": "user@bank.com",
    "timestamp": 1572375004080,
    "receipt": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD-{{year}}-10-1572375004080",
    "status": {
        "code": 15,
        "message": "Your submission has been accepted.",
        "description": "This completes your HMDA filing process for this year. If you need to upload a new HMDA file, the previously completed filing will not be overridden until all edits have been cleared and verified, and the new file has been submitted."
    }
}

Sign and complete a HMDA Submission.

Get Sign receipt

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/sign
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/sign" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}'

Response:

{
    "email": "user@bank.com",
    "timestamp": 1572375004080,
    "receipt": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD-{{year}}-55-1572375004080",
    "status": {
        "code": 15,
        "message": "Your submission has been accepted.",
        "description": "This completes your HMDA filing process for this year. If you need to upload a new HMDA file, the previously completed filing will not be overridden until all edits have been cleared and verified, and the new file has been submitted."
    }
}

Get Submission Summary

Method: GET
Endpoint: https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/v2/filing/institutions/{{lei}}/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/summary
Headers: Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}

Example

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/submissions/{{sequenceNumber}}/summary'" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}'

Response:

{
    "submission": {
        "id": {
            "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
            "period": {
                "year": "2020"
                "quarter": null
            },
            "sequenceNumber": 20
        },
        "status": {
            "code": 15,
            "message": "Your submission has been accepted.",
            "description": "This completes your HMDA filing process for this year. If you need to upload a new HMDA file, the previously completed filing will not be overridden until all edits have been cleared and verified, and the new file has been submitted."
        },
        "start": 1634228617589,
        "end": 1634229085705,
        "fileName": "clean_file_5_rows_Bank0_2020.txt",
        "receipt": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD-2020-26-1634229085705",
        "signerUsername": "user@bank.com"
    },
    "ts": {
        "id": 1,
        "institutionName": "Bank0",
        "year": "2020"
        "quarter": 4,
        "contact": {
            "name": "Mr. Smug Pockets",
            "phone": "555-555-5555",
            "email": "user@bank.com",
            "address": {
                "street": "1234 Hocus Potato Way",
                "city": "Tatertown",
                "state": "UT",
                "zipCode": "84096"
            }
        },
        "agency": 9,
        "totalLines": 5,
        "taxId": "01-0123456",
        "LEI": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD"
    }
}

Quarterly Filing

All the endpoints are the same for quarterly filing with the addtion of quarter/Q1/, quarter/Q2/ or quarter/Q3/ after the filing parameter and before the submission parameter.

Request:

curl -X GET \
  "https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/v2/filing/institutions/B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD/filings/{{year}}/quarter/Q1/submissions/latest" \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer {{access_token}}' \

Response:

{
    "id": {
        "lei": "B90YWS6AFX2LGWOXJ1LD",
        "period": {
            "year": "2020"
            "quarter": "Q1"
        },
        "sequenceNumber": 10
    },
    "status": {
        "code": 13,
        "message": "Your data has macro edits that need to be reviewed.",
        "description": "Your file has been uploaded, but the filing process may not proceed until edits are verified or the file is corrected and re-uploaded."
    },
    "start": 1585750668652,
    "end": 0,
    "fileName": "<file_name>",
    "receipt": "",
    "qualityVerified": false,
    "macroVerified": false,
    "qualityExists": true,
    "macroExists": false
}

HMDA Platform Filing API

Authorization​

Error Messages​

Password Policy​

Postman Collection​

Filing Process​

Object Hierarchy​

Submission Status​

Submission Status Codes​

Endpoints​

Start a Filing​

Example​

Get a Filing​

Example​

Create a Submission​

Example​

Get the Latest Submission​

Example​

Upload a File​

Example​

View Parsing Errors​

Example​

View All Edits​

Example​

View Edit Details​

Example​

Verify Quality Edits​

Example​

Verify Macro Edits​

Example​

Sign a Submission​

Example​

Get Sign receipt​

Example​

Get Submission Summary​

Example​

Quarterly Filing​

Authorization

Error Messages

Password Policy

Postman Collection

Filing Process

Object Hierarchy

Submission Status

Submission Status Codes

Endpoints

Start a Filing

Example

Get a Filing

Example

Create a Submission

Example

Get the Latest Submission

Example

Upload a File

Example

View Parsing Errors

Example

View All Edits

Example

View Edit Details

Example

Verify Quality Edits

Example

Verify Macro Edits

Example

Sign a Submission

Example

Get Sign receipt

Example

Get Submission Summary

Example

Quarterly Filing