emperor-mew/fdic-failures

FDIC failed banks (1934-present)

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.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

• API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/fdic/failures/recent
• Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/fdic-failures
• DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
• DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/fdic/failures/recent?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/fdic-failures'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

• Agency: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Primary source: https://banks.data.fdic.gov/api/failures
• License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
• Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

FDIC, bank failure, Deposit Insurance Fund, DIF, bank receivership, Purchase and Assumption, S&L crisis, 2008 banking crisis

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_fdic_failures_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/fdic-failures},
  note   = {Derived from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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