The Scenario
You are in compliance. A regulatory filing requires exchange-level metadata — country of registration, trading currency, current operational status, and standard trading hours — for 12 specific exchanges identified by their MIC codes. The filing is due next Tuesday.
You have the 12 MIC codes in column A of an Excel workbook. Columns B through F are labeled Exchange Name, Country, City, Currency, and Status — all blank. Marketstack has a per-exchange detail endpoint. Getting it into the workbook is the task.
The MIC codes came from a counterparty data feed. You have never interacted with Marketstack's API before. You have an API key.
The bad version:
- Open Marketstack's documentation, find the exchange detail endpoint, construct a URL for the first MIC code, run it, and parse the JSON response to figure out which fields map to which columns
- Copy the values into columns B through F for row 1, then repeat for the remaining 11 MIC codes
- Notice that one of the MIC codes returns a 404 because the exchange was renamed and the code in your file is outdated — now you need to figure out the correct MIC and document the discrepancy for the filing
The filing requires the metadata. The API calls are not the compliance work.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Excel workbook. It reads the MIC codes in column A and through its Marketstack integration it can call the exchange detail endpoint for each one and fill in the adjacent columns.
Look up all 12 exchange MIC codes in column A of this Excel workbook using Marketstack and fill in the exchange name into column B, country into column C, and trading currency into column D for each
What You Get
- Exchange name in column B for each MIC code in column A
- Country in column C, trading currency in column D
- Any MIC code that returns no result gets a note in column B explaining that the exchange was not found — so the gap is visible rather than silent
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some MIC codes in column A might be outdated or unofficial variants
For each MIC code in column A, look up the exchange in Marketstack — if the code returns a result, write the name, country, city, currency, and status into columns B through F; if the code returns no result, write "NOT FOUND" in column B and leave the rest blank so I can review those rows manually
You also need the standard opening and closing hours in local time
For each exchange MIC code in column A, fetch the exchange details from Marketstack and write name, country, currency, and status into columns B, C, D, and E; then write the standard opening time in column F and the closing time in column G, both in local exchange time
You want a summary row at the bottom showing how many exchanges are active versus inactive
For each MIC code in column A, fetch exchange details from Marketstack and fill columns B through F with name, country, city, currency, and status; then add a summary row at the bottom showing the count of active exchanges and the count of inactive or closed exchanges
Full compliance pipeline: look up all exchanges, flag inconsistencies, add a notes column for the filing
For each MIC code in column A, fetch the exchange details from Marketstack and fill columns B through F; in column G, note any exchange where the status is not Active, where the country does not match what is in column H (which already has the expected country from our internal records), or where Marketstack returned no result — these are the rows that need manual review for the filing
Flagging the discrepancies automatically means the compliance review is focused on the actual exceptions rather than a line-by-line comparison.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open the Excel workbook with your MIC codes in column A, then ask it to fill in the exchange details from Marketstack for each row. The Marketstack integration is included in every SheetXAI plan.
See also: exporting the full exchange catalog and enriching tickers with metadata.