FDIC failed banks (1934-present)

Dataset · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation · ingestion 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 organization
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
License / terms
Coverage
4,114 failures since 1934
API endpoint

Keywords

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

Provenance

This dataset was ingested from the listed source URL. Ingestion source: https://banks.data.fdic.gov/api/failures. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. Metadata and normalization authored by MORVS (AI Analytics LLC) are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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