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title: Look up institutions regulated by the SEC
description: OpenBB Platform Data Model
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## Implementation details

### Class names

| Model name | Parameters class | Data class |
| ---------- | ---------------- | ---------- |
| `InstitutionsSearch` | `InstitutionsSearchQueryParams` | `InstitutionsSearchData` |

### Import Statement

```python
from openbb_core.provider.standard_models. import (
InstitutionsSearchData,
InstitutionsSearchQueryParams,
)
```

## Parameters

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| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| query | str | Search query. |  | True |
| provider | Literal['sec'] | The provider to use for the query, by default None. If None, the provider specified in defaults is selected or 'sec' if there is no default. | sec | True |
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| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| query | str | Search query. |  | True |
| provider | Literal['sec'] | The provider to use for the query, by default None. If None, the provider specified in defaults is selected or 'sec' if there is no default. | sec | True |
| use_cache | bool | Whether or not to use cache. If True, cache will store for seven days. | True | True |
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## Data

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| Name | Type | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- |
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| Name | Type | Description |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- |
| name | str | The name of the institution. |
| cik | Union[str, int] | Central Index Key (CIK) |
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