EMpulse

EM FX Events: currency-infrastructure feed

A dated feed of events that move street FX in emerging markets: devaluations, cash and withdrawal limits, P2P and crypto bans, FX restrictions, payment outages. Each item is a short quotation with a link to the public source.

Operations and compliance teams running corridors into emerging markets, OTC desks, journalists and analysts who need to know what happened in a currency before they look at the rate.

Included in Street FX Index Pro — $390/month. Pricing · API docs

Data and endpoints

FieldTypeMeaning
finding_idbigintstable id of the event
tstimestamptztime of the original post (UTC); time of detection when unknown
countrytextcountry, English name; null when unclear
curtextISO 4217 code of the currency concerned; null when unclear
kindtextdevaluation / cash_limits / p2p_ban / fx_restriction / outage / other
summarytexttitle or quotation of the original post, at most 300 characters, original language
source_urltextlink to the original public post
confidencefloat0–1, the scout's relevance score / 100
 
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.empulse.ai/v1/em-fx-events/csv

Access: free keys with a 48-hour delay; Pro keys without delay. Same key and limits as the Street FX Index.

Series delivered to each key may contain insignificant individual differences (see the license terms).

Example response

Latest rows as of 2026-10-24T15:39:42.489193+00:00 (public view, 48-hour delay).

{
  "product": "em-fx-events",
  "as_of": "2026-10-24T15:39:42.489193+00:00",
  "data": [
    {
      "finding_id": -764,
      "ts": "2026-09-04T11:00:00+00:00",
      "country": "Argentina",
      "cur": "ARS",
      "kind": "rail",
      "summary": "Bank transfers (pay-ins) in Argentina: degraded market-wide since 2026-09-04 11:00 UTC",
      "source_url": "https://empulse.ai/products/rail-health",
      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "finding_id": -1055,
      "ts": "2026-10-11T08:00:00+00:00",
      "country": "Azerbaijan",
      "cur": "AZN",
      "kind": "rail",
      "summary": "Cards (pay-ins) in Azerbaijan: degraded market-wide since 2026-10-11 08:00 UTC",
      "source_url": "https://empulse.ai/products/rail-health",
      "confidence": 0.9
    },
    {
      "finding_id": -2471,
      "ts": "2026-09-09T08:00:00+00:00",
      "country": "Bahrain",
      "cur": "BHD",
      "kind": "rail",
      "summary": "Bank transfers (pay-ins) in Bahrain: degraded market-wide since 2026-09-09 08:00 UTC",
      "source_url": "https://empulse.ai/products/rail-health",
      "confidence": 0.9
    }
  ]
}

Sources and licences

Methodology

EM FX Events

  • Source: event findings of the EMpulse demand scout — public posts (Telegram channel previews, forums, RSS of publishers, official channels) classified as event, i.e. news that changes conditions on the street FX market. Each item keeps a quotation of at most 300 characters (summary: the post title, or the most telling fragment, original language) and the link to the original (source_url). Full texts are never redistributed.
  • kind is assigned by deterministic keyword rules, in this order: p2p_ban (bans or blocks of P2P / crypto / USDT venues), cash_limits (cash, ATM and withdrawal limits or shortages), fx_restriction (capital and currency controls, import restrictions, dollar shortage), devaluation (devaluation, record lows, floats), outage (service disruptions), otherwise other.
  • confidence = the scout's relevance score / 100 (0–1). Items with a score below 20 are not included.
  • ts is the time of the original post when the source gives one, otherwise the time the scout detected it.
  • The feed is a reading of public information, not an official statement by any authority, and not advice.

General index methodology: /methodology. Not investment advice.