FDIC Bank Failures And Assistance Transactions — Every Failed Or Assisted FDIC-, FSLIC- And RTC-Insured Institution With Resolution And Transaction Type, Charter Class, Assets, Deposits And Estimated Loss To The Insurance Fund, Since 1934

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4,117 failed or assisted insured institutions (3,524 failures and 593 assistance transactions) in 54 states and territories, 1934 to 2026: every commercial bank, savings bank and savings association resolved by the FDIC, the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation or the Resolution Trust Corporation, with FDIC certificate number, name, city and state, the effective date the institution ceased to be a privately held going concern, the insurance fund that bore the loss (FDIC, FSLIC, RTC, BIF, SAIF or DIF), whether the case was a failure or an assistance transaction, the resolution transaction type as the FDIC codes it (A/A assistance, P&A, PA and PI purchase and assumption, IDT insured deposit transfer, PO payout, MGR FSLIC management takeover, REP reprivatisation, plus ABT, DINB and OBAM), the charter class (N national bank, SM state Fed-member bank, NM state non-member bank, SB savings bank, SA savings association and the older savings-institution codes SL, SI and MI), total assets and deposits from the last report filed before the effective date and the estimated loss to the fund, all in thousands of US dollars, and the FIN number of the receivership or assistance agreement. Certificate numbers are blank for most cases before 1950 and a few later ones, estimated losses where the FDIC publishes none (most FDIC cases before 1986, FSLIC cases before 1989 and the 2008–09 systemic-risk assistance transactions) and FIN numbers where none was assigned. From the FDIC BankFind Suite failures API as of 2026-09-06.

Use Cases

Banking-crisis and failure-wave research
Deposit-insurance loss modelling
Bank-resolution and charter-class comparisons
Regional bank-stress context

Methodology

Single fetch of the BankFind Suite failures endpoint (api.fdic.gov/banks/failures, the target of the banks.data.fdic.gov/api redirect) for the certificate, name, location, date, fund, resolution, transaction, charter, balance-sheet, loss and FIN fields; M/D/YYYY dates converted to ISO; nulls and the placeholder FIN 0 blanked; sorted by failure date and name. Code meanings follow the FDIC's failure_properties field documentation.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. The FDIC adds failures as they occur (usually on Friday evenings) and revises estimated losses periodically; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, BankFind Suite failures API (public domain).

Schema

name	type
cert	integer
name	string
city	string
state	string
failure_date	date
insurance_fund	string
resolution_type	string
transaction_type	string
charter_class	string
total_assets_usd_thousands	integer
total_deposits_usd_thousands	integer
estimated_loss_usd_thousands	string
fin_number	integer

Sample Data

city	name	state	failure_date	charter_class	insurance_fund	resolution_type	transaction_type	total_assets_usd_thousands	total_deposits_usd_thousands
PITTSBURGH	BANK OF AMERICA TRUST CO.	PA	1934-04-19	NM	FDIC	FAILURE	PO	1435	1064
EAST PEORIA	FON DU LAC STATE BANK	IL	1934-05-28	NM	FDIC	FAILURE	PO	374	238
LIMA	FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LIMA	MT	1934-07-18	N	FDIC	FAILURE	PO	91	42
FLORENCE	FLORENCE DEPOSIT BANK	IN	1934-07-18	NM	FDIC	FAILURE	PO	105	69
LEWISPORT	BANK OF LEWISPORT	KY	1934-08-06	NM	FDIC	FAILURE	PO	81	68

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#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'FDIC Bank Failures and Assistance Transactions — Every Failed or Assisted FDIC-, FSLIC- and RTC-Insured Institution with Resolution and Transaction Type, Charter Class, Assets, Deposits and Estimated Loss to the Insurance Fund, since 1934' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

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Date Range1934-04-19 — 2026-07-17

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