The Form DSTRBRPT Files Dataset is the EDGAR collection of distribution reports filed by multilateral development banks (MDBs) — IBRD, IFC, IADB, AsDB, AfDB, and peers — under Rule 3 of the SEC's issuer-specific regulations (Regulation BW, IFC, IA, AsDB, AF), which implement the Schedule B disclosure regime of the Securities Act of 1933 for these statutorily exempt supranational issuers. One record is a single Form DSTRBRPT or DSTRBRPT/A filing memorialising one tranche-level distribution of primary debt obligations into the U.S. market — a single series, CUSIP, and set of pricing and underwriting terms — packaged as one accession-numbered folder containing a metadata.json envelope and the SGML-wrapped HTML report. EDGAR coverage of these filings begins in April 2003 and continues to the present, with each record event-driven and filed by the issuing MDB promptly after closing of the relevant tranche.
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The dataset captures every Form DSTRBRPT and Form DSTRBRPT/A filing accepted by EDGAR since April 2003. Each filing is the issuer's post-distribution disclosure for one debt issuance — a new bond or note issuance under a global debt or medium-term-note program, a standalone underwritten public offering, a reopening or tap of an existing series, or a structured-note issuance where the MDB is issuer of record. The unit of observation is one filed report, not one debt instrument and not one issuer; a single MDB typically files many DSTRBRPT records in a year, each documenting a distinct primary debt issuance under its program.
The filings are exempt from Securities Act of 1933 registration under issuer-specific federal statutes (the Bretton Woods Agreements Act for IBRD, the IFC Act, the IDB Act, the AsDB Act, the AfDB Act, and analogous statutes), but the SEC requires the issuers to disclose each completed distribution under content modelled on Schedule B of the 1933 Act. Records are organised on disk under monthly parent folders of the form YYYY-MM/ inside year-level ZIP containers; each accession folder is named with the 18-digit accession number with dashes stripped (accession 0001193125-25-265603 becomes folder 000119312525265603). The dataset's container format is ZIP and the file types found across records are TXT, JSON, HTML, and PDF, though in modern filings essentially every record consists of one metadata.json plus one SGML-wrapped HTM document.
A record contains two layers:
metadata.json) — a flat JSON object capturing the EDGAR header for the submission: form type, accession number, filer entity block, deep links back to EDGAR, the filing timestamp, and a manifest of every document originally part of the EDGAR submission.d<digits>ddstrbrpt.htm (for example d21966ddstrbrpt.htm), wrapped in EDGAR's SGML <DOCUMENT> envelope. The HTML body contains the cover page, the Item-numbered disclosure spine, the exhibit list, and — typically — the inline text of the offering's contractual exhibits embedded after the Items.Older filings may carry PDF artifacts when the filer chose to submit scanned exhibits. The complete-submission .txt wrapper that EDGAR generates for every accession is referenced from the metadata's linkToTxt and as a trailing entry in documentFormatFiles, but is not packaged on disk; image exhibits (logos and signature scans, listed in EDGAR as type: "GRAPHIC") are also referenced from the metadata but excluded from the dataset by design.
metadata.json is a flat JSON object that mirrors the EDGAR filing header. The fields:
formType — "DSTRBRPT" for original reports or "DSTRBRPT/A" for amendments.accessionNo — the dashed accession number (e.g. "0001193125-25-265603").filedAt — an ISO-8601 timestamp with timezone offset for EDGAR acceptance (e.g. "2025-11-05T06:05:15-05:00").description — the standard form description string "Form DSTRBRPT - Distribution of primary obligations Development Bank report".linkToFilingDetails — deep link to the primary HTML report on sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/....linkToTxt — link to the EDGAR full-submission text wrapper.linkToHtml — link to the EDGAR filing index page (...-index.htm).linkToXbrl — empty string for this form.dataFiles — empty array for this form.documentFormatFiles — array describing every document EDGAR received as part of the submission. Each element carries sequence, size (bytes, as a string), documentUrl, description, and type. The first entry is invariably type: "DSTRBRPT" and points at the report HTML; subsequent entries are typically type: "GRAPHIC" (logo and signature images) and one trailing entry with empty type for the complete-submission text wrapper. This array is the canonical record of what was originally submitted, including documents the dataset itself does not package on disk.entities — an array (typically a single element) describing the filer. Each entity object carries act (Securities Exchange Act number, e.g. "34"), cik (e.g. "1384542" for IFC, "311670" for IADB), fileNo (e.g. "083-00138", "083-00001"), irsNo, companyName with the (Filer) suffix as EDGAR records it (e.g. "International Finance Corp (Filer)", "INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK (Filer)"), type (the filer-role form code, "DSTRBRPT"), sic (e.g. "9721 International Affairs" or "6029 Commercial Banks, NEC"), filmNo, and where applicable fiscalYearEnd (e.g. "0630").seriesAndClassesContractsInformation — an empty array on these filings; the form does not carry investment-company series/class data.id — a dataset-internal MD5-style identifier used as a stable record key.The single HTML file is the distribution report. It opens and closes with EDGAR's SGML document wrapper around the inner HTML payload:
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<TYPE>DSTRBRPT
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<FILENAME>d21966ddstrbrpt.htm
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<DESCRIPTION>DSTRBRPT
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<TEXT>
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<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>DSTRBRPT</TITLE></HEAD>
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<BODY ...> ... actual report ... </BODY></HTML>
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</TEXT>
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The <TYPE>, <SEQUENCE>, <FILENAME>, <DESCRIPTION>, and <TEXT> lines are EDGAR header tags rather than HTML; an HTML-aware parser must tolerate or strip them before processing the body.
The body begins with a cover-page block identifying the filer, the specific debt issuance, and the regulatory authority for the filing. Cover pages name the issuer (e.g. REPORT OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION, REPORT OF THE INTER-AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK), identify the specific tranche being reported (e.g. Issue of U.S.$ 50,000,000 3.51 per cent. Fixed Rate Notes due 5 November 2027, Series No. 1014 U.S.$100,000,000 3.802 percent Notes due November 12, 2030), reference the umbrella program under which the notes were issued (e.g. Global Medium-Term Note Program, Global Debt Program), cite the governing regulation and rule (FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 3 OF REGULATION IFC, Filed pursuant to Rule 3 of Regulation IA), and date the report. IADB cover pages additionally carry a right-aligned regulatory header block (File No. 83-1, Regulation IA, Rule 3).
The body of the report is organised as a Schedule-B-derived sequence of numbered Items, each rendered as a small table row with an underlined heading. The recurring spine:
Price to the Public, Selling Discounts and Commission, and Proceeds to the Bank (or Issuer), reported on both a per-note and aggregate basis.Item 7 itself is short — it is a list of exhibit identifiers — but the same HTML file typically embeds the substantive text of the offering exhibits below the Item table, separated from the main report by <HR> horizontal rules and right-aligned bold Exhibit X markers. Common exhibits:
SCHEDULE I — Notice Details of the Dealer: listing the dealer's name and address (e.g. Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, Charlotte, NC).Filings often contain <IMG> tags referencing JPG logos and signature blocks (e.g. <IMG SRC="g82891g1007070406268.jpg" ALT="LOGO">). Those referenced images appear in the metadata's documentFormatFiles array as type: "GRAPHIC" entries but are not packaged on disk; rendered HTML will therefore show broken image placeholders for those references while the textual content remains intact.
metadata.json envelope, with the full EDGAR header, the entities block(s), and the complete documentFormatFiles manifest of original submission components.<accession>.txt full-submission file is referenced via linkToTxt and the trailing entry of documentFormatFiles but is not stored on disk; the report HTML already carries the SGML document markers needed to reconstruct the inner document.linkToXbrl is empty and dataFiles is empty on every record.Although the Item spine is stable, filer-specific stylistic and structural variation matters for extraction:
A. Information Statement; B. Prospectus; C. Final Terms; D. Terms Agreement), and embed the Final Terms and Terms Agreement inline below the Items section.DSTRBRPT filings have been submitted to EDGAR since April 2003 and have been delivered consistently as HTML documents wrapped in EDGAR SGML <DOCUMENT> markers, accompanied by GRAPHIC image exhibits. The Item 1–7 disclosure spine derived from Schedule B has remained stable, as has the practice of incorporating program-level Information Statements and Prospectuses by reference rather than restating them. PDF artifacts may appear in older filings where the filer scanned exhibits rather than rendering them as HTML; modern filings are essentially HTML-only at the document level.
<DOCUMENT>, <TYPE>DSTRBRPT, <SEQUENCE>, <FILENAME>, <DESCRIPTION>, and <TEXT> lines and the trailing </TEXT></DOCUMENT> lines, which are EDGAR header markup rather than HTML.formType field and any restated Items inside the body are the only signals of an amendment.Exhibit A / Exhibit B / Exhibit C / Exhibit D markers and the <HR> page-break rules to delineate sections rather than on separate files.entities block and the cik field within it. Filings should be attributed using the entity-block CIK and companyName, not the accession-prefix filer.Each record is filed on EDGAR by a multilateral development bank in its capacity as issuer, signed by an authorized officer (typically the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer). Underwriters, dealers, paying agents, and swap counterparties may be named in the report but do not file and have no independent reporting obligation.
The reporting population is narrow and consists of supranational issuers whose U.S. distributions are governed by issuer-specific SEC regulations adopted under each institution's enabling Act. Typical filers include:
These are sovereign-backed multilateral institutions, not corporate operating-company issuers. Because their primary obligations are statutorily exempt from Section 5 registration, they do not file 1933 Act registration statements for those obligations and do not file 1934 Act periodic reports (10-K, 10-Q) in respect of them.
The framework has two layers.
Statutory layer. Each MDB's primary U.S. obligations are exempted from Section 5 of the Securities Act by an issuer-specific statute (for example, Section 15(a) of the Bretton Woods Agreements Act for IBRD; Section 15 of the IFC Act; Section 9 of the IDB Act; Section 8 of the AsDB Act; Section 8 of the AfDB Act; the EBRD Act). Each statute authorizes the SEC to suspend the underlying exemption and to impose disclosure requirements it deems necessary in the public interest and for the protection of investors. This is the U.S. analogue, for these specific issuers, of the Schedule B regime that applies to foreign sovereign issuers under the Securities Act itself — Schedule B foreign-government issuers report on Form 18-K, while these MDBs were carved out of Section 5 by special statutes and instead report under issuer-specific SEC rules.
SEC rule layer. Under that delegated authority, the SEC adopted a family of parallel regulations: Regulation BW governing IBRD obligations, Regulation IFC governing IFC obligations, Regulation IA governing IADB obligations, Regulation AsDB governing AsDB obligations, Regulation AF governing AfDB obligations, and an analogous rule set for EBRD. (The exact CFR codification varies by regulation; readers should consult the current Code of Federal Regulations for citations.)
Within each regulation, Rule 3 (or its functional equivalent) requires the issuer to file a post-distribution report on Form DSTRBRPT for each distribution of its primary debt obligations in the United States, prescribing the cover letter and schedule of terms. Rule 2 of each regulation typically governs the periodic information statement about the institution as a whole; Rule 3 is the transactional report that becomes a Form DSTRBRPT filing. EDGAR maps every Rule 3 filing across all of these regimes to the single form type "DSTRBRPT."
The form is event-driven, not periodic. A Form DSTRBRPT filing is triggered each time the MDB completes a distribution of primary debt obligations into the U.S. market. A "distribution" typically means:
The filing identifies the issuance and describes the terms of the securities (principal amount, currency, coupon or interest formula, issue price, maturity, redemption and call features, listing, and lead managers and dealers), plus any associated hedging or swap arrangements where applicable. An MDB with frequent programmatic issuance can generate many DSTRBRPT filings per year; less active issuers may file only occasionally.
Each Rule 3 filing is required promptly after the distribution. In practice filings are submitted at or shortly after closing of the relevant tranche, so the EDGAR filing date sits close to the issue date. There is no quarterly or annual cadence, no fiscal-year alignment, and no "filer status" (large accelerated, accelerated, non-accelerated) concept, because these issuers are not Exchange Act periodic reporters.
EDGAR coverage of these filings begins in April 2003. Pre-EDGAR distribution reports exist in SEC paper archives — in principle back to the late 1940s for IBRD and to each institution's founding statute for the others — but are not part of this dataset.
A Form DSTRBRPT/A is an amendment to a previously filed distribution report. The amendment is not triggered by a new transaction; it is a curative re-filing tied to the original Rule 3 report. Typical triggers:
There is no fixed amendment deadline beyond the general expectation that filers correct materially inaccurate or incomplete filings reasonably promptly after discovering the defect.
MDBs vs foreign sovereigns. Foreign governments and political subdivisions register on Schedule B and report on Form 18-K (and Form 18-K/A). MDBs do not file Form 18-K; they file Form DSTRBRPT under their issuer-specific regulations.
MDBs vs foreign private issuers. Corporate foreign private issuers use Forms 20-F, 40-F, 6-K, and the F-series under Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Exchange Act. None of those forms is used for MDB primary obligations.
MDBs vs U.S. domestic issuers. Domestic registrants file Form 10-K, Form 10-Q, Form 8-K, and S-series registration statements. None apply to MDB primary debt; the Section 5 exemption is statutory and is paired with Regulation BW and its siblings.
Issuer vs underwriter. Form DSTRBRPT is the issuer's filing. Underwriters and dealers do not file it; they appear in the report only because Rule 3 calls for syndicate disclosure.
Affiliated entities. Each MDB files in its own name under its own enabling statute and SEC regulation. An IFC distribution is filed under the IFC regime and is not consolidated with IBRD filings, even though both are part of the World Bank Group.
Non-debt instruments. Rule 3 attaches to primary debt obligations. Equity-like or capital-subscription instruments of these institutions, which are not publicly distributed in the U.S. in the ordinary course, do not generate DSTRBRPT filings.
Form DSTRBRPT occupies a narrow corner of EDGAR. The most useful comparisons are other Schedule-B-style filings, foreign sovereign reporting, and the registered debt documents a corporate issuer would file for an analogous transaction.
Same regulatory framework (Regulation BW, Schedule B), same filer universe (IBRD, IDB, AfDB, AsDB, EBRD, and peers), same EDGAR channel.
Differs on scope and timing: ANNLRPT is institution-level and annual, carrying audited financials, capital structure, and lending portfolio data. DSTRBRPT is transaction-level and event-driven, documenting a single debt distribution (principal, coupon, maturity, calls, hedge mechanics). ANNLRPT describes the issuer; DSTRBRPT describes a specific bond. Credit analysts typically need both.
Same Schedule B lineage and similar narrative-plus-exhibit structure.
Differs on filer and cadence: 18/18-K is filed by national or sub-national governments (Israel, Mexico, Province of Quebec), not by supranationals. Form 18 is a registration statement and 18-K is an annual report on the sovereign as a whole; neither is a per-issuance distribution report. World Bank or IDB research uses DSTRBRPT/ANNLRPT; sovereign research uses 18/18-K.
Closest functional analogue for transaction-level economics: principal, coupon, maturity, redemption terms, use of proceeds.
Differs on three concrete axes:
Both involve registered debt or equity capital raising on EDGAR.
Differs on regulatory track: S-1/S-3/F-1/F-3 sit under Schedule A and govern corporate and foreign private issuer offerings, with risk factors, MD&A, and underwriter disclosures. DSTRBRPT sits under Schedule B/Regulation BW, which exempts MDBs from that regime. The two datasets cover mutually exclusive filer populations.
Both flagged as specialized non-U.S. issuer forms.
Otherwise unrelated: Form CB is M&A- and tender-offer-driven, focused on offer terms and bidder/target information. DSTRBRPT contains no M&A content and covers only debt distributions. Adjacency is taxonomic, not substantive.
Both serve non-U.S. issuers on EDGAR.
Differs on filer status: MDBs are not foreign private issuers and never file 20-F or 6-K. Searches for World Bank or IDB disclosures in 20-F/6-K datasets return nothing; those issuers report exclusively through ANNLRPT, DSTRBRPT, and related Schedule B forms.
The UN, IMF, and BIS issue debt internationally but do not file with the SEC and have no EDGAR analogue. DSTRBRPT captures only the MDB subset that has elected into Regulation BW for U.S. distribution. Broader supranational debt research requires non-SEC sources (issuer IR sites, Luxembourg or London prospectuses, market data vendors).
DSTRBRPT is the only EDGAR dataset that systematically captures per-issuance distribution reports for MDB debt under Schedule B/Regulation BW. It is narrower in filer population than nearly any other EDGAR form type, transaction-level rather than periodic (distinguishing it from ANNLRPT, 18-K, and 20-F), and post-distribution rather than offering-stage (distinguishing it from 424B/FWP). For MDB primary-market debt terms it is the authoritative SEC source; for institution-level credit work it must be paired with ANNLRPT; for sovereign or corporate comparisons users must move to entirely different regimes.
The dataset serves a narrow set of fixed-income, treasury, capital-markets, and research roles that need deal-level supranational issuance terms.
Sell-side and buy-side credit analysts covering multilateral development banks read the cover letter and term sheet to confirm new issuance, then capture principal, coupon, maturity, and call features into issuer-level debt schedules. The records reconcile prospectus terms against actual placement and feed rating-committee memos and asset-liability views on each issuer's funding stack.
Syndicate and origination desks in the sovereign, supranational, and agency segment mine the filings to reconstruct competitor issuance by currency, tenor, structure, and embedded optionality. Hedging-arrangement disclosures inform pricing advice on cross-currency and swap-linked mandates; the term-sheet data populates pitchbook league tables and issuance-history exhibits.
Reserve and treasury desks holding supranational paper as high-grade, non-sovereign reserves use new-issue records to monitor supply by issuer, currency, and tenor and to validate security terms in custody and risk systems. Callable, step-up, and structured features are checked against permitted-investment guidelines; principal and maturity feed allocation, duration, and convexity models.
Issuer-side funding, legal, and compliance staff use the dataset for self-audit: confirming timely Rule 3 filing, verifying that cover letters correctly identify each issuance, and checking that recorded terms match deal documentation. DSTRBRPT/A amendment patterns inform internal disclosure controls and document templates.
Bond reference-data and new-issue pipeline teams treat the filings as an authoritative input for security master records covering supranational debt. They extract issuer, principal, coupon, maturity, call schedule, and hedging language to populate instrument-level reference data and to backfill issuance history to 2003 for league-table archives.
Hedge fund and dealer relative-value desks pricing supranationals against sovereign curves rely on call-feature and coupon detail to strip optionality when computing spreads. Hedging disclosures signal whether a placement is likely swapped to floating, which shapes basis-trade construction and secondary-market expectations.
Quant teams building issuance-supply, term-premium, and callable-bond pricing models use the standardized term-sheet fields to construct time series of volume, tenor mix, and structural complexity by issuer. Amendment frequency provides a signal for disclosure-noise studies.
Researchers studying development finance, reserve currencies, and supranational capital-markets behavior use the 2003-to-present span for panel studies of currency choice, tenor, and hedging practice across multilateral issuers. Deal-level granularity supports working papers and policy briefs that aggregate market statistics cannot.
Disclosure counsel benchmark peer cover letters, term descriptions, and DSTRBRPT/A amendment language to calibrate drafting of optional and structured-feature disclosures and to source precedents for Schedule B distribution documentation.
Teams building retrieval and extraction systems for fixed-income workflows use the corpus as a compact, structured set of supranational primary-market disclosures well suited to training and evaluating term extraction, summarization, and cross-filing comparison for SSA-focused tools.
Form DSTRBRPT records are tranche-level disclosures, so most use cases route a small set of cover-letter and Item-1 fields (principal, coupon, maturity, call provisions, hedging language) into deal-level pipelines. The following workflows are concrete and executable against the records as packaged.
Origination and syndicate teams group records by entities[].cik (e.g. 1384542 for IFC, 311670 for IADB) and metadata.json.filedAt to bucket issuance by quarter and issuer. Cover-letter fields — aggregate nominal amount, currency, coupon, maturity — are extracted from the Item 1(a)–(c) block and the inline Final Terms or Pricing Supplement to populate currency-by-tenor matrices and dealer credits sourced from the Terms Agreement's SCHEDULE I dealer-notice block. Output: pitchbook tables and competitor-mandate trackers covering 2003-to-present.
Reference-data teams at bond data vendors parse each accession folder into one instrument record. They lift CUSIP/ISIN, issue date, maturity date, fixed/floating-rate provisions, and redemption/call schedules from the embedded Final Terms exhibit, then key the record back to the issuer via entities[].cik and the accessionNo. DSTRBRPT/A records are detected on formType == "DSTRBRPT/A" and used to overwrite or version the prior tranche-level snapshot, with filedAt driving the as-of date.
Rates and relative-value analysts mine Item 1(b) interest-rate language and inline Pricing Supplement fields for swap or cross-currency hedging arrangements (fixed-to-floating swap notes, currency-of-payment vs. specified currency mismatches, embedded step-ups). Tagging tranches as likely swapped to floating feeds basis-trade construction and asset-swap-spread calculations against sovereign curves; callable-feature extraction from Item 1(d) supplies the optionality input for OAS stripping.
Treasury and reserve desks holding MDB paper as high-grade reserves run Item 1(d) (Redemption and Amortization) and Item 1(h) (Other Material Provisions) through a guideline-compliance filter to flag callable, step-up, or structured tranches that exceed permitted-investment limits. Records are matched against custody holdings on issuer CIK plus CUSIP from the Final Terms; non-vanilla tranches drop into a manual-review queue before settlement.
Funding and compliance staff at IBRD, IADB, ADB, AfDB, and IFC reconcile internal deal pipelines against the dataset by joining on entities[].cik and filedAt to confirm Rule 3 filings landed on time and that cover-letter terms match the executed Final Terms. DSTRBRPT/A frequency by Item is tabulated to drive template fixes — for example, recurring amendments to Item 3 distribution-spread tables become an input to the next disclosure-controls review.
Researchers assemble a tranche-level panel from the full 2003-onward corpus, with one row per accession and columns for issuer (entity CIK), currency, principal, tenor (maturity minus issue date), coupon, callable flag, and hedging-language indicator. The panel supports event-study and time-series work on currency choice, tenor migration, and structural complexity across MDBs that aggregate market statistics cannot resolve at the deal level.
Document-AI teams use the corpus as a compact, schema-stable benchmark for term-sheet extraction. The Schedule-B-derived Item 1–7 spine, the right-aligned Exhibit A/B/C/D markers, and the SGML <DOCUMENT> wrapper give a clean evaluation set for parsers that must isolate principal, coupon, maturity, call provisions, and dealer identity and reconcile them against metadata.json ground-truth fields (accessionNo, formType, filer CIK).
Dataset Index JSON API: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-dstrbrpt-files.json
This endpoint returns the dataset's metadata, including its name, description, last updated timestamp, earliest sample date, total record count, total size, covered form types (DSTRBRPT, DSTRBRPT/A), container format (ZIP), and included file types (TXT, JSON, HTML, PDF). It also provides the download URL for the entire dataset and a list of individual container files, each with its size, record count, last updated timestamp, and download URL. This endpoint does not require an API key.
You can poll this endpoint daily to monitor which containers were updated in the most recent refresh run and decide which containers to download incrementally.
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Download Entire Dataset: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-dstrbrpt-files.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Downloads the full Form DSTRBRPT Files Dataset as a single ZIP archive containing every Form DSTRBRPT and DSTRBRPT/A filing from April 2003 to present. This endpoint requires an API key.
Download Single Container: https://api.sec-api.io/datasets/form-dstrbrpt-files/2026/2026-05.zip?token=YOUR_API_KEY
Downloads a single monthly container instead of the full archive, which is useful for incremental updates. Replace the year and month segment with any container key returned by the index endpoint. This endpoint requires an API key.
The dataset covers Form DSTRBRPT and its amendment Form DSTRBRPT/A — the post-distribution report that multilateral development banks file under Rule 3 of their issuer-specific SEC regulations (Regulation BW for IBRD, Regulation IFC, Regulation IA for IADB, Regulation AsDB, Regulation AF for AfDB, and analogous rules for EBRD). The content is modelled on Schedule B of the Securities Act of 1933.
One record is a single Form DSTRBRPT or DSTRBRPT/A filing memorialising one tranche-level distribution of primary debt obligations into the U.S. market — one series, one CUSIP, one set of pricing and underwriting terms. On disk, it is one accession-numbered folder containing a metadata.json envelope and the SGML-wrapped HTML report (typically named d<digits>ddstrbrpt.htm).
The form is filed by multilateral development banks whose primary U.S. obligations are statutorily exempt from Securities Act registration under issuer-specific federal statutes — typically IBRD, IFC, IADB, AsDB, AfDB, EBRD, and peer supranationals. The MDB itself is the filer, signed by an authorized officer such as the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer; underwriters and dealers do not file.
The form is event-driven. A filing is triggered each time the MDB completes a distribution of primary debt into the U.S. market — a global-debt or MTN program takedown, a standalone underwritten offering, a reopening or tap, or a structured-note issuance — and is submitted promptly after closing of the relevant tranche. There is no quarterly or annual cadence and no fiscal-year alignment.
EDGAR coverage of Form DSTRBRPT begins on April 1, 2003 and continues to the present. Pre-EDGAR distribution reports exist in SEC paper archives — in principle back to the late 1940s for IBRD — but are not part of this dataset.
The dataset is delivered as ZIP containers, organised under monthly parent folders of the form YYYY-MM/ inside year-level archives. Inside each accession folder the file types found across the corpus are TXT, JSON, HTML, and PDF, although in practice modern records consist of one metadata.json plus one SGML-wrapped HTM document; older filings may also contain scanned PDF exhibits.
Form ANNLRPT is filed by the same MDB universe under the same Schedule B framework but is institution-level and annual, carrying audited financials and lending portfolio data — DSTRBRPT is transaction-level and event-driven, describing a single bond rather than the issuer. Rule 424B and Form FWP, by contrast, are Schedule A prospectus documents used to sell securities and are filed at or before the time of sale, while DSTRBRPT is filed under Schedule B/Regulation BW after the distribution and is not an offering document.