FDIC BankFind Financials & Failed-Bank Tracker – Banking Data API

An FDIC BankFind API wrapper and banking-data feed that pulls U.S. bank institution profiles, quarterly financials (assets, deposits, net income, ROA/ROE) and historical failed-bank events, normalizing each into a clean record. Use it to build a bank intelligence tool, a fintech onboarding/enrichment feed, a vendor market-sizing dataset, or bank-failure monitoring.

Who uses it

Fintechs enriching bank/partner data, bank and credit-union analysts, vendors selling into financial institutions, investors, and financial-journalism teams.

Why this is worth charging for

FDIC publishes rich institution and financial data via BankFind, but responses are nested (each row wrapped in a data object) and field codes are opaque. This actor normalizes institutions and failures into readable records with numeric financials, ready for enrichment, screening or monitoring.

Output

Each dataset item is one normalized record:

{
  "recordType": "institution",
  "cert": 3510,
  "name": "Example National Bank",
  "city": "Reno",
  "state": "NV",
  "totalAssets": 1250000,
  "totalDeposits": 980000,
  "netIncome": 15000,
  "returnOnAssets": 1.2,
  "returnOnEquity": 11.4,
  "established": "1985-06-01",
  "active": 1,
  "bankClass": "N",
  "branchCount": 12,
  "source": "FDIC BankFind"
}

Input

Field	Description
mode	Query active/inactive institutions or the historical failed-bank list.
state	Filter by state, e.g. NV.
searchName	Full-text search on institution name.
activeOnly	Institutions mode: only currently-active banks.
pageSize	Rows per page.
maxPagesToScan	Pages per run.
onlyNewSinceLastRun	Recommended for schedules — skips records already returned by a previous run using persisted state, so you're only charged for genuinely new items.
maxItems	Stop after this many normalized records.

Pricing (Pay-Per-Event)

• query — $0.02, charged once per run for the API query/poll.
• institution-record — $0.01 per normalized record pushed. This is the primary event.
• apify-actor-start (Apify-managed) — covers baseline compute per run.

A statewide institution pull returns dozens to hundreds of banks for a couple dollars. The failed-bank dataset is small and cheap to snapshot in full.

Source & reliability

Data comes from the official banks.data.fdic.gov BankFind API. Nested data wrappers are flattened and numeric fields coerced. No proxies required. Run npm test for the offline self-test covering the normalizer, including edge cases and missing-field handling.

FAQ

Is there an API for FDIC bank data?

Yes — this actor wraps FDIC BankFind and returns clean institution and failed-bank records via the Apify API, webhook or export.

Can I get failed banks?

Yes. Set mode to 'failures' to pull the historical failed-bank list with acquirer and failure date.

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