# Institutions

An **institution** is an entity that Belvo can access information from. It can be a:

- bank institution, such as Nubank Brazil.
- fiscal institution, such as the *Servicio de Administración Tributaria (SAT)* in Mexico.
- employment institutions, such as *Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS)* in Mexico or *Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS)* in Brazil.

## List institutions

 - [GET /api/institutions/](https://developers.belvo.com/apis/belvoopenapispec/institutions/listinstitutions.md): ## ▶️ Usage

With the List Institutions method, you can:

1. List all institutions Belvo has available.

## 📖 Pagination

This method returns a paginated response (default: 100 items per page). You can use the page_size query parameter to increase the number of items returned to a maximum of 1000 items. You can use the page query parameter to navigate through the results. For more details on how to navigate Belvo's paginated responses, see our Pagination Tips article.

## 🔦 Filtering Responses

Please see the query list below for a list of fields that you can filter your responses by. For more information on how to use filters, see our Filtering responses article.

## Get an institution's details

 - [GET /api/institutions/{id}/](https://developers.belvo.com/apis/belvoopenapispec/institutions/detailinstitution.md): Get the details of a specific institution.