Search FDIC bank failures
fdic_search_failuresRead-onlyIdempotent
Search FDIC-insured bank failures and assistance transactions since 1934 by name, CERT, headquarters state, failure date range, resolution method, or size. Returns each event with failure date, acquirer, total assets and deposits, and the FDIC's estimated loss to the insurance fund, plus totals over every matching event; group_by adds counts and losses per year, state, method, or fund. Searches failures only unless resolution is set to assistance or all. Dollar amounts are in thousands.
Input Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| name | No | Failed institution name, up to 100 characters; every word of two or more letters or digits must appear in the name FDIC recorded (e.g. "silicon valley"). Case-insensitive. A standalone NA is ignored beside other words, so it also finds names recorded with N.A. | |
| sort | No | date_desc (newest first, default), date_asc, loss_desc (largest estimated loss first), or assets_desc. | date_desc |
| certs | No | Up to 50 CERTs of failed institutions. Events before 1977 carry no CERT. | |
| limit | No | Events per page (1–200). | |
| state | No | Failed institution's headquarters state: two-letter code in any case or full name. | |
| offset | No | Events to skip (0–100,000); pass next_offset from the previous page. | |
| methods | No | How each event was resolved: PA purchase and assumption of all deposits, PI P&A of insured deposits only, P&A P&A with deposit scope undetermined, IDT insured deposit transfer, ABT asset-backed transfer, PO payout, DINB payout through a Deposit Insurance National Bank, A/A assistance transaction, REP reprivatization, MGR FSLIC management takeover, OBAM undocumented assistance code. | |
| to_date | No | Latest failure date to include (YYYY-MM-DD). | |
| group_by | No | Add counts, assets, deposits, and estimated losses per year, state, method, or insurance_fund over every matching event. | |
| from_date | No | Earliest failure date to include (YYYY-MM-DD, e.g. 2023-03-10). | |
| min_assets | No | Minimum total assets at the last report before failure, in thousands of US dollars. | |
| resolution | No | failure (default), assistance (open-bank assistance and similar transactions), or all. Echoed as resolution_filter. |
Output Schema
TableJSON Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| cap | No | The limit applied to this page. | |
| error | No | Present when the call failed. Absent on success. | |
| shown | No | Events returned on this page. | |
| total | No | Matching events across all pages. | |
| groups | No | Present with group_by. Years run ascending with empty years filled in; other keys by count, largest first. | |
| notice | No | Guidance when nothing matched, the page is past the end, or more pages remain. | |
| summary | No | Totals over every matching event, not just this page. | |
| failures | No | Matching events for this page. | |
| truncated | No | True when more events remain beyond this page. | |
| data_as_of | No | When FDIC last rebuilt the failures index (ISO timestamp). | |
| next_offset | No | Offset of the next page; present when more events remain. | |
| resolution_filter | No | The resolution filter applied. |