FDIC BankFind Suite API and Bulk Data

Use in your agent

Load active FDIC institutions into pandas and Parquet. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 1, 2026.

Access

• No account or key is currently required for BankFind Suite API queries.
• Institution and location CSV files provide bulk alternatives.

Request

curl 'https://banks.data.fdic.gov/api/institutions?filters=ACTIVE%3A1&fields=CERT%2CNAME%2CSTALP%2CASSET%2CDEP%2CRISDATE&limit=100&format=json'

Format

JSON response with metadata, total match count and data records nested under data[].data; selected fields include FDIC certificate number, institution name, state, assets, deposits and report date.

Load into pandas and Parquet

Needs Python 3 with requests, pandas and pyarrow.

"""Active FDIC institutions -> pandas -> Parquet. No key."""
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://banks.data.fdic.gov/api/institutions"
params = {
    "filters": "ACTIVE:1",
    "fields": "CERT,NAME,STALP,ASSET,DEP,RISDATE",
    "limit": 100,
    "format": "json",
}
r = requests.get(URL, params=params, timeout=60)
r.raise_for_status()
payload = r.json()
df = pd.DataFrame([row["data"] for row in payload["data"]])
df.to_parquet("fdic_active_institutions.parquet", index=False)
print(len(df), "institutions of", payload["meta"]["total"],
      "matching active institutions; index", payload["meta"]["index"]["name"])

Run by us on 2026-11-01 (python 3.13.5 | pandas 3.1.0 | pyarrow 26.0.0 | requests 2.34.2). Result: 100 institutions of 4213 matching active institutions; index institutions_20261030090007

Limits

• Rate limit: Not stated.
• The example requests 100 records; use the response metadata when paging larger result sets.
• Coverage and reporting dates vary across institutions, financials, locations, history, failures, deposits, summaries and demographics.

Quirks

• Record fields are nested under each data item, while totals and the backing index timestamp are under meta.
• Asset and deposit values require the endpoint definitions for units and reporting-period interpretation.
• The documentation discusses API keys but explicitly says users are currently not required to register for one.

Terms and attribution

• The checked FDIC policy page does not assign a standard license to BankFind data.
• FDIC disclaims warranties and responsibility for the accuracy and currency of website information and data.

Sources

• https://banks.data.fdic.gov/docs/: “FDIC’s application programming interface (API) lets developers access FDIC’s publicly available bank data.”
• https://banks.data.fdic.gov/docs/: “Users are currently not required to register and obtain a unique “key” to use with every query submitted to our API.”
• https://banks.data.fdic.gov/docs/: “Data output is available as JSON or CSV.”
• https://www.fdic.gov/about/policies: “The FDIC has taken reasonable measures to ensure that the information and data presented on this website is accurate and current.”