Check Crosswire coverage
check_coverageCall this whenever the user asks where Crosswire operates, whether a country or region is served, or what is available in a market - never answer coverage from the website or prior knowledge. Use when the user asks whether Crosswire covers a region or country, or what capabilities are available there. Regions are the canonical set: Europe, UK, UAE, US, Canada, LATAM, Asia, Africa. Region names are matched case-insensitively and echoed back in canonical casing. Optionally pass product (banking, acquiring, digital-assets, cross-border, open-banking, kyc, baas, vibans, agentic; legacy aliases such as crypto, corridor, open_banking and fixed-txn are accepted and normalise) to scope the answer; product 'cross-border' (alias 'corridor') always returns the real-time EUR <-> USD settlement corridor block (live for EU <-> US). Describes capability level only and never names a provider, bank, acquirer or network. Pass vertical and currency when known: the answer then states whether a row underwrites that vertical on that rail and which settlement currencies it is priced in, rather than a bare regional yes. PAYOUTS: product 'payouts' answers per DESTINATION market with the SETTLEMENT METHODS that destination is reachable on - bank deposit, wallet, cash pickup or card - plus the service types, the turnaround, the limits and the route status, all read from the pinned payout-routes export and never from prose. Name no network, scheme or provider: a card payout is a method, not a brand. Where a route is eligible for banks only the answer says it is available to regulated financial institutions with confirmation required for others, and nothing more. A payout answer never carries corridor copy, because a corridor and a payout are different components. A regional payouts question returns the family with its route counts; a family is never reported as live, its routes are. OPEN BANKING: product 'open-banking' answers per MARKET from the recorded market rows - whether the market is live per the provider's own published market list and when that was read, how many banks are reachable there (unknown where it is not recorded, never estimated), and the settlement currency status. A vertical the provider lists but has not confirmed in writing reads 'listed by the provider, written confirmation pending', never 'not underwritten', and an open dependency keeps the vertical answer at consult with the dependency named. A market with no recorded row is answered as before. No provider, bank or source page is ever named. Does NOT return pricing - for any price/rate question use get_indicative_price (which accepts the same product values). SCOPE: the answer is scoped to the region asked about. The payout, Current and corridor families that region touches come back in full; every other family comes back as a count, and the public network as membership without each member's licence register entry. Every guardrail, pricing note and status sentence is unchanged either way. Pass full_inventory: true only when the user explicitly asks for the complete inventory.
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| region | Yes | Region or country (e.g. 'Germany', 'US', 'Hong Kong', 'LATAM'). | |
| product | No | Optional product to scope coverage to. Same canonical enum as get_indicative_price. Legacy aliases (corridor, crypto, open_banking, pay-by-bank, fixed-txn) are accepted and normalise. | |
| activity | No | What the entity does, e.g. 'fiat-crypto conversion for retail'. | |
| currency | No | Optional settlement currency (ISO 4217, e.g. 'EUR', 'USD', 'GBP'). Coverage states which currencies the rail is priced in. | |
| vertical | No | Optional vertical (e.g. 'Adult / Dating', 'Forex / CFD', 'Crypto', 'iGaming', 'Nutra / supplements'). Supply it whenever the user has one: coverage answers differently per vertical, because a region can serve a product while no row underwrites that vertical on it. | |
| end_user_type | No | Who its end users are, e.g. 'EEA retail customers'. | |
| incorporation | No | Where the entity is incorporated, e.g. 'Canada'. Part of the entity question: who may hold the account. | |
| registrations | No | What the entity is registered as, e.g. 'FINTRAC registered money services business'. A registration outside the EU/EEA never answers the CASP question. | |
| full_inventory | No | Default false. Coverage is scoped to the region asked about: the payout, Current and corridor families that region touches are returned in full, everything else as a count, and the public network as membership without each member's licence record. Set true ONLY when the user explicitly asks for the complete inventory - every family, every route, every register entry. A scoped answer states the same facts; it carries less inventory. |