# 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  query parameter to increase the number of items returned to a maximum of 1000 items. You can use the  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.