Redistributable. This source is served as canonical Parquet under the license below, with attribution and provenance preserved.

Coverage

Series catalogued

298,869

Temporal coverage

1986-03-31 – 2026-03-31

Frequencies

quarterly

Licensing & provenance

License: U.S. Government Work (public domain)
License URL: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Required attribution: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Redistribution: Permitted (served here)
Commercial use: Yes
Modification: Permitted
Provider homepage: https://banks.data.fdic.gov/
Provider terms: https://archive.fdic.gov/Content%20and%20Copyright

Access & mirrors

Download: Select & download fdic series as CSV →
API: Get a free API key, then GET /v1/series/<id>.csv
Canonical landing: https://econdatalibrary.com/fdic
Update cadence: quarterly
Automated refresh: live — this database is on the daily update run
Update strategy: extend by date
Storage layout: Per-endpoint parquet: data/clean_full/fdic/{financials,institutions,history,failures,summary}.parquet. financials is LONG (series_key='CERT={cert}:{field}', obs_date(date32), value(float64)); the other four are WIDE (one row per record, all selected fields as typed columns). financials flushes every >5M rows via _append_parquet (read-existing+concat+rewrite). No raw dir.

Full description

FDIC bank data ingest — full history from banks.data.fdic.gov. Public Domain (US government data). No API key required. Endpoints covered: financials — quarterly call-report data per institution (the main dataset) institutions — all FDIC-insured bank attributes (snapshot) history — institution name changes / mergers failures — failed bank list (1934–present) summary — industry-level aggregate stats by quarter Output: data/clean_full/fdic/<endpoint>.parquet financials stored in long format: series_key = "CERT={cert}:{field}", obs_date, value Others stored wide (one row per record with all available fields). Run: python jobs/ingest_fdic.py python jobs/ingest_fdic.py --only financials

Structured metadata

schema.org/Dataset (Google Dataset Search)

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Croissant (ML-ready, schema.org JSON-LD)

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