Structured panels built from the written record of the federal banking
agencies. Each product page describes construction and coverage, shows the
current series, and provides the data for download.
The record, and what is made of it
The record is long before it is deep. One continuous series — the
agencies' annual reports — spans 1863 to the present. From 1989 the
record widens to the agencies' full publication output, and from 2001 it
deepens to the quarterly filings of every insured bank. Bar thickness
reflects density, from one document a year to hundreds of thousands of
filings; the right margin names the published measure each series feeds.
What the agencies are writing about now — quarterly topic
emphasis in guidance letters, bulletins, and risk reports, across
twenty contemporary policy domains.
OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, CFPB · quarterly · 1989–present
How much of a bank's supervisor's attention falls on that bank's
balance-sheet vulnerabilities. Wide cross-bank variation by
construction; moves when the supervisors move.
Entry, exit, charter flipping between supervisors, and the division of
banking assets across the three agencies.
All insured banks · 1934–present
Source documents
The corpus behind the Supervisory Priorities Index — 319 agency annual
reports, 1863–2024 — is indexed with links to the original
documents. Browse the corpus.
License
The data and code are released under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0):
use and adapt them freely, for research or any other purpose, with
attribution. The underlying agency publications are U.S. government works in
the public domain; the license covers the original indices, dictionaries,
and code produced here. If you use the data, please
cite it. Full terms are in the
license.
In development
An enforcement-actions panel covering all three federal banking agencies,
citation networks in supervisory publications, and a version history of
the examination handbooks are in preparation and will be added here.