FDIC failed banks (1934-present)

Dataset · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · primary source ↗

Every US bank failure since 1934. 4,114 records with FDIC Deposit Insurance Fund cost, deposits + assets at failure, resolution type (Purchase & Assumption, Payout of insured deposits, Open Bank Assistance), and acquiring bank. Most journalists + consumers never see this aggregated — they only learn about a failure when it happens in their town.

Source agency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
License
CC0 / US public domain
Coverage
4,114 failures since 1934
API endpoint

Keywords

FDICbank failureDeposit Insurance FundDIFbank receivershipPurchase and AssumptionS&L crisis2008 banking crisis

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://banks.data.fdic.gov/api/failures. Underlying content is a US federal government work (public domain under 17 USC §105); our derived data is licensed CC0 1.0.

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