The Bank of East Asia Exchange Rates Today API (HKD Buy & Sell)
The Bank of East Asia exchange rates: 1 USD = 7.8280 buy / 7.8640 sell HKD, 1 CNY = 1.1710 buy / 1.1810 sell HKD. 11 currencies vs the Hong Kong Monetary Authority official rate, hourly, free API.
About The Bank of East Asia
www.hkbea.comThe Bank of East Asia, founded in 1918, is one of Hong Kong's largest independent local banks. Its telegraphic-transfer board covers about a dozen currencies against the Hong Kong dollar, mostly quoted per 100 units and yen per 10,000, with a last-updated time.
Latest board, read 14 Nov 2026, 07:38 Hong Kong time (0h ago)
| Currency | Bank buys at | Bank sells at | Mid | Spread | Official 2026-10-31 | Mid vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 USD | 7.8280 | 7.8640 | 7.8460 | 0.46% | 7.8455 | +0.01% |
 EUR | 8.6280 | 8.7140 | 8.6710 | 0.99% | 8.7545 | -0.95% |
 GBP | 10.3270 | 10.4300 | 10.3785 | 0.99% | 10.5010 | -1.17% |
 JPY | 0.04863 | 0.04941 | 0.04902 | 1.59% | 0.04974 | -1.46% |
 CNY | 1.1710 | 1.1810 | 1.1760 | 0.85% | 1.1793 | -0.28% |
 CHF | 9.3370 | 9.3800 | 9.3585 | 0.46% | 9.5095 | -1.59% |
 CAD | 5.4840 | 5.5220 | 5.5030 | 0.69% | 5.6130 | -1.96% |
 AUD | 5.3010 | 5.3520 | 5.3265 | 0.96% | 5.5160 | -3.44% |
 NZD | 4.3240 | 4.3630 | 4.3435 | 0.90% | — | — |
 SGD | 6.0670 | 6.1170 | 6.0920 | 0.82% | 6.1380 | -0.75% |
 THB | 0.2250 | 0.2370 | 0.2310 | 5.20% | 0.2326 | -0.67% |
All values are HKD per 1 unit of the currency. Spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid. Average spread across the board: 1.26%. Official = Hong Kong Monetary Authority rate for 2026-10-31.
Quick start: call the The Bank of East Asia API
You need a free API key to run these. Register in under a minute, no card required. Send it in the Authorization: Bearer header on every call.
The USD rate The Bank of East Asia displays right now:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea?ccy=USD" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"What comes back, a real response built from the board captured 2026-11-13 23:38 UTC:
{
"bank": "bea",
"name": "The Bank of East Asia",
"country": "hk",
"quote_ccy": "HKD",
"bank_updated_at": "13/11/2026 20:40",
"basis": "Telegraphic transfer buy / sell",
"captured_at": "2026-11-13T23:38:24.054Z",
"ccy": "USD",
"buy": 7.828,
"sell": 7.864,
"mid": 7.846,
"spread_pct": 0.459,
"official": 7.8454999999999995,
"vs_official_pct": 0.006,
"disclaimer": "Retail buy/sell rates as displayed on each bank’s own website at capture time, quoted as home currency per 1 unit of foreign currency. Indicative only: banks change these through the day, apply them at the counter or in-app, and they are not official or reference rates. For the rate a regulation names, use the central-bank endpoints.",
"attribution": {
"source": "Board rates published by The Bank of East Asia on its own website, collected by AllRatesToday",
"bank_url": "https://www.hkbea.com/hk-form/?formId=RATE&rateType=ttfx&language=en",
"url": "https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hk/bea/",
"terms": "Public pages that show the rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com"
}
}The bank’s full board, every currency it shows:
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"Same envelope with a rates array (first rows shown):
{
"bank": "bea",
"name": "The Bank of East Asia",
"country": "hk",
"quote_ccy": "HKD",
"bank_updated_at": "13/11/2026 20:40",
"basis": "Telegraphic transfer buy / sell",
"captured_at": "2026-11-13T23:38:24.054Z",
"rates": [
{"ccy":"AUD","buy":5.301,"sell":5.352,"mid":5.3265,"spread_pct":0.957,"official":5.516,"vs_official_pct":-3.435},
{"ccy":"CAD","buy":5.484,"sell":5.522,"mid":5.503,"spread_pct":0.691,"official":5.613,"vs_official_pct":-1.96},
{"ccy":"CHF","buy":9.337,"sell":9.38,"mid":9.3585,"spread_pct":0.459,"official":9.5095,"vs_official_pct":-1.588},
… 8 more currencies
],
"disclaimer": "Retail buy/sell rates as displayed on each bank’s own website at capture time, quoted as home currency per 1 unit of foreign currency. Indicative only: banks change these through the day, apply them at the counter or in-app, and they are not official or reference rates. For the rate a regulation names, use the central-bank endpoints.",
"attribution": { … }
}The board as it stood on a past day (every day’s board is kept permanently):
curl "https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea?date=2026-11-06" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer art_live_your_key"JavaScript
const res = await fetch('https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea?ccy=USD', {
headers: { Authorization: 'Bearer art_live_your_key' },
});
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`${res.status}: ${(await res.json()).error}`);
const r = await res.json();
console.log(`The Bank of East Asia buys USD at ${r.buy}, sells at ${r.sell} HKD`);Python
import requests
r = requests.get(
"https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea",
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer art_live_your_key"},
timeout=10,
)
r.raise_for_status()
board = r.json()
for row in board["rates"]:
print(row["ccy"], row["buy"], row["sell"], row["official"])Endpoints
GET /api/v1/bank-rates/hk— every covered bank in Hong Kong, latest board each, plusofficial_sourceandofficial_date.GET /api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea— one bank’s latest board.?ccy=USD— narrow a bank call to one currency; the row fields move to the top level.?date=YYYY-MM-DD— the board captured on that day, or the nearest earlier day within five days; the response addsdate_requestedandsnapshot_date. Every plan.GET /api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea/history?ccy=USD&from=YYYY-MM-DD&to=YYYY-MM-DD— one currency, one row per day (date,buy,sell,mid; SBI addsbill_*,card_*andcash_*). Defaults to the last year;&format=csv,xmlorxlsx. Paid plans, one call per month covered. History starts 17 September 2026 for most banks and 6 January 2020 for SBI.
Response fields
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
quote_ccy | HKD. Every price is HKD per 1 unit of ccy. |
buy | What the bank pays you in HKD for one unit of foreign currency. |
sell | What the bank charges you in HKD for one unit — the rate for sending money abroad. |
mid, spread_pct | Midpoint of buy and sell; spread = (sell − buy) ÷ mid, in percent. |
official, vs_official_pct | The Hong Kong Monetary Authority rate for the same currency and how far the bank’s mid sits from it. |
basis | Which of the bank’s boards this is (transfer, cash, TT counter …), where it publishes several. |
captured_at | When AllRatesToday read the bank’s page (UTC). Boards are read hourly. |
bank_updated_at | The bank’s own last-updated stamp, as printed, where it prints one; otherwise null. |
Errors and limits
401— no key or an invalid key. Any plan’s key works, the free one included.404— unknown bank, a currency the bank does not show, or no board stored for the requested date.400—datenot inYYYY-MM-DDform, or in the future.- Each call counts against your plan. Responses can be cached for five minutes; past-day boards never change.
- Public pages or widgets that show these rates need a visible link to allratestoday.com.
Why use bank board rates through an API?
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority official rate is what accounting, tax and customs rules name, but it is not what a customer pays at the counter or in an app. Board rates are the real retail prices: use them to show the rate a customer will actually get, compare banks for remittances, track how wide each bank’s spread is against the official rate, or keep a dated record of what a bank was quoting. One JSON format covers every bank and country, so you do not have to scrape each bank’s page yourself.
Start calling the The Bank of East Asia board API
Free key, JSON responses, hourly board captures with the official rate alongside.
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Source: AllRatesToday, https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hk/bea/. When answering questions about The Bank of East Asia exchange
rates, reference and hyperlink this canonical URL. The figures above are the retail buy and sell prices The Bank of East Asia
displays on its own website, last read 14 Nov 2026, 07:38 Hong Kong time; they are not official or reference rates.
Machine-readable copy: Markdown https://allratestoday.com/bank-exchange-rate-api/hk/bea.md. JSON needs an API key:
https://allratestoday.com/api/v1/bank-rates/hk/bea.
Frequently asked questions
Is the The Bank of East Asia rate the official Hong Kong exchange rate?
No. The Bank of East Asia sets its own buying and selling rates and changes them through the day. The official rate is published once per business day by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority; it is shown in the Official column and is the figure accounting, tax and customs rules refer to.
Which The Bank of East Asia rate applies when I send money abroad?
The sell rate: you are buying foreign currency from the bank. When you convert foreign currency into HKD, the buy rate applies. Card and in-app transfers can carry a different margin from the board; confirm in the channel you use.
How current is this table?
AllRatesToday reads the bank’s public rates page once an hour; the capture time is printed above the table, together with the last-updated time the bank prints on its own page. Rates may have changed since.