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FDIC BankFind Suite

FDIC-insured institution, branch, financial, and failure records for building bank-directory, branch-map, and failure-history tools.

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At a glance

Difficulty
Beginner — comfortable for a first prototype
Size
Medium · ≤1 GB
Formats
JSON, CSV
Access
API or Download
API key
Not required
Provider
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Updates
Weekly
Data terms
U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance

From source to product signal

Test a product idea in four steps

BankFind Suite exposes institution and branch records through a public API. Start with one state abbreviation and a small result limit. A key is not required today, though FDIC documents a registration path. Branch lists are not a measure of service quality, and failure records are historical.

1

Check the setup

  • Python 3.10 or newer
  • A notebook environment such as Jupyter or Google Colab
  • An internet connection
2

Access the data

  1. 1.Open the BankFind API documentation and note the Elastic-style filter syntax.
  2. 2.Request a bounded page of Iowa institutions.
  3. 3.Keep certificate numbers, names, and city fields as text.
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3

Run the Python example

Install the packages, then run the notebook cell.

python -m pip install pandas requests

import pandas as pd
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.fdic.gov/banks/institutions",
    params={
        "filters": 'STALP:IA',
        "fields": "NAME,CERT,CITY,STALP,ACTIVE",
        "limit": 20,
        "format": "json",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
response.raise_for_status()
banks = pd.json_normalize(
    [row["data"] for row in response.json()["data"]]
)
print(banks[["NAME", "CERT", "CITY", "STALP", "ACTIVE"]].head())
4

Test a useful signal

List active FDIC-insured institutions in one state

Test whether BankFind can power a bounded state bank directory.

  1. 01Keep certificate number, name, city, and active flag.
  2. 02Count active versus inactive institutions and flag missing cities.
  3. 03Explain that a branch or certificate list is not a safety rating and that failure history lives on a separate endpoint.

Dataset details

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is a government source. Last verified 2026-08-18. Temporal coverage: 1934-present failures with current institutions.

Theme

Markets & Economics

Domains

FinanceBankingRegulation

Data types

Registry DataGeospatialTime Series

Tasks

Directory SearchGeographic AnalysisFailure Analysis

Geography

United States

Formats

JSONCSV

Provider

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Data terms

U.S. Government public data / federal copyright guidance