Search for ticker symbols, company names, and exchange details for equity securities and ETFs listed on various exchanges with the FMP Name Search API. This endpoint is useful for retrieving ticker symbols when you know the full or partial company or asset name but not the symbol identifier.
AI agents call searchName to retrieve information from Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server without modifying anything — typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.
searchName retrieves publicly available financial reference data (ticker symbols, company names, exchange information) without creating, modifying, deleting, or executing operations. This is a classic Read operation: it queries a database and returns results. The low severity reflects that misuse cannot cause financial harm or data loss—an AI agent searching for ticker symbols poses minimal risk.
From the tool's definition Tool description states it 'search[es] for ticker symbols, company names, and exchange details' and is 'useful for retrieving ticker symbols' — purely a lookup/query operation with no data modification or side effects.
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Search for ticker symbols, company names, and exchange details for equity securities and ETFs listed on various exchanges with the FMP Name Search API. This endpoint is useful for retrieving ticker symbols when you know the full or partial company or asset name but not the symbol identifier. It is categorised as a Read tool in the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP Server, which means it retrieves data without modifying state.
Register the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server in PolicyLayer and add a rule for searchName: allow, deny, rate-limit, or require approval. Point your MCP client at the PolicyLayer proxy URL and the rule is enforced on every call, before it reaches Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server. Nothing to install.
searchName is a Read tool with low risk. Read-only tools are generally safe to allow by default.
Yes. Add a rate_limit block to the searchName rule in your PolicyLayer policy. For example, setting max: 10 and window: 60 limits the tool to 10 calls per minute. Rate limits are tracked per agent session and reset automatically.
Set action: deny in the PolicyLayer policy for searchName. The AI agent will receive a policy violation error and cannot call the tool. You can also include a reason field to explain why the tool is blocked.
searchName is provided by the Financial Modeling Prep MCP Server MCP server (vijitdaroch/financial-modeling-prep-mcp-server). PolicyLayer sits as a proxy in front of this server to enforce policies before tool calls reach the server.
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