Research library
The text substrate of the grounded analyst
FinObservatory’s research library is the acquired text corpus behind the future grounded analyst: what central banks said, decided, and reported, on disk, cataloged, and verifiable. Four corpora, 39,467 documents, 1936 to 2026. This module explores the catalog, the unified metadata index; document text stays on local disk under each publisher’s terms and every entry links out to the publisher’s own copy where one exists.
Corpus inventory
Every count and span below is computed from the catalog at render time. Two corpora have dedicated explorers: FOMC materials and central-banker speeches.
| Corpus | Documents | Span | On disk | Source | License posture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIS central bankers' speeches bis_speeches | 20,728 | 1996–2026 | 0.4 GB | Bank for International Settlements, bis.org/cbspeeches | Noncommercial local-use. BIS terms: noncommercial use; extracts over 400 words need permission. Metadata and links here; full text at bis.org only. |
| SEC EDGAR 10-K / 10-Q filings, US financial firms edgar_filings | 9,846 | 2016–2026 | 53.8 GB | US SEC, EDGAR full-text archives | Public domain. US government work, public domain. |
| Federal Reserve FOMC and Board materials fed_text | 4,691 | 1936–2026 | 3.0 GB | Board of Governors, federalreserve.gov | Public domain. US government work, public domain (Board seals and logos excluded). |
| IMF Article IV staff reports and GFSR imf_reports | 4,202 | 2002–2026 | 14.6 GB | IMF eLibrary, elibrary.imf.org | Local-use only. IMF copyright: personal, noncommercial usage only; no redistribution. Metadata and eLibrary links here; PDFs stay on local disk. |
Source: FinObservatory text catalog (text_catalog.parquet), built from the four raw corpora IMF documents carry no per-document date in the eLibrary catalog; the IMF span uses the report year (imf_year). On-disk bytes are file sizes, except BIS rows where bytes measure the speech text inside the single bulk csv. Methodology
Documents per decade
The catalog by decade of document date (report year for IMF). The long left tail is the Federal Reserve’s historical minutes and their predecessor records, which reach back to the 1930s; the modern bulk arrives after 1996, when the BIS speeches archive and the Fed’s web-era publications begin, and after 2016, the EDGAR filing floor.
Source: FinObservatory text catalog, grouped by decade and corpus Methodology
Most recent documents
The newest documents in the catalog by document date. IMF reports cannot appear here: their catalog records year and issue but no document date, so ranking them by date would be invented precision.
Source: FinObservatory text catalog, newest document dates Links go to the publisher's own copy: bis.org for BIS speeches, federalreserve.gov for Fed materials, sec.gov filing indexes for EDGAR. Methodology
Explore: FOMC materials | central-banker speeches | acquisition and licensing methodology.