FDIC Historical API
Historical data from 1934 onward regarding financial institutions.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
description: API to serve banking industry data to the public.
version: 0.1.0
title: FDIC Bank Data API (Beta) Demographics Historical API
contact:
email: PublicDataFeedback@fdic.gov
servers:
- description: API to serve banking industry data to the public.
url: /banks
tags:
- name: Historical
description: Historical data from 1934 onward regarding financial institutions.
paths:
/summary:
get:
tags:
- Historical
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
summary: Get Historical Aggregate Data by Year
operationId: getHistorical
description: Returns aggregate financial and structure data, subtotaled by year, regarding finanical institutions.
parameters:
- in: query
name: api_key
description: Api key used for api.fdic.gov
required: false
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: filters
description: "The filter criteria that refines the records included in the calculated result. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.\nexample: >-\nSTNAME:\"Alabama\" AND YEAR:2005\nExamples:\n* Filter by Community Banks (CB) vs. Savings Institutions (SI) \n`CB_SI:CB` \n* Filter by State name \n`STNAME:\"Virginia\"` \n* Filter all but a specified value \n`!(STNAME:\"Virginia\")` \n* Filter for any one of multiple State names \n`STNAME:(\"West Virginia\",\"Delaware\")` \n* Filter data by the year range \n`YEAR:[\"2015\" TO \"2017\"]`\n"
required: false
example: STNAME:"Alabama"
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: fields
description: Comma delimited list of fields with aggregated annual financial data to return. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
example: STNAME,YEAR,INTINC,EINTEXP,NIM,NONII,NONIX,ELNATR,ITAXR,IGLSEC,ITAX,EXTRA,NETINC
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: sort_by
description: Field name by which to sort returned data. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
example: YEAR
schema:
type: string
default: YEAR
- in: query
name: sort_order
description: Indicator if ascending (ASC) or descending (DESC). All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
example: DESC
schema:
type: string
default: ASC
- in: query
name: limit
description: The number of records to return. Default is 10 and maximum is 10,000.
required: false
example: 10
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 0
maximum: 10000
default: 10
- in: query
name: offset
description: The offset of page to return.
required: false
example: 0
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 0
default: 0
- in: query
name: agg_by
description: The field by which data will be aggregated. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: agg_term_fields
description: The field(s) for which aggregations will be counted for each unique term. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: agg_sum_fields
description: The field(s) for which aggregations will be summed or aggregated. All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: agg_limit
description: The limit on how many aggregated results will be displayed.
required: false
schema:
type: integer
minimum: 0
maximum: 10000
- in: query
name: max_value
description: The field by which the max value is desired.
required: false
schema:
type: string
- in: query
name: max_value_by
description: The field that will be used to determine unique records, similar to a primary key (i.e. CERT). All values must be entered in UPPERCASE.
required: false
schema:
type: string
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/fileFormat'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/fileDownload'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/fileName'
responses:
'200':
description: Successful Operation
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
meta:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/metadata'
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/summary'
text/csv:
schema:
type: string
format: csv
'400':
description: bad input parameter
components:
schemas:
metadata:
type: object
properties:
total:
type: integer
description: Total query result count
parameters:
type: object
description: Query parameters supplied
index:
type: object
properties:
name:
type: string
description: name of index used to retrieve data
createTimestamp:
type: string
format: date-time
description: date/time index was created
summary:
type: object
allOf:
- $ref: summary_properties.yaml
parameters:
fileName:
in: query
name: filename
description: The filename to use when downloading data.
required: false
example: data_file
schema:
type: string
fileDownload:
in: query
name: download
description: Whether the data should be downloaded as a file.
required: false
example: false
schema:
type: boolean
enum:
- false
- true
fileFormat:
in: query
name: format
description: The format of the data to return.
required: false
example: json
schema:
type: string
enum:
- json
- csv