Students, scholars, banking professionals, and public patrons can now more easily find many different levels of financial information, especially within the United States. This site provides comprehensive information on banks and other institutions for which the Federal Reserve has a supervisory, regulatory, or research interest. NIC includes both domestic and foreign banking organizations operating in the United States. Organizational structure, even on a historical basis, is available. This is useful when investigating what bank merged or acquired another bank.
Financial information is available for selected time periods.
Banks can also be automatically ranked in size by various criteria. Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council. This interagency council, which outlines uniform procedures for the federal examination of financial institutions, serves as the site for NIC and also offers annual Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data in the aggregate, by census tract, and by metropolitan statistical area. The FDIC operates a fine Web site with electronic versions of several important banking research publications. Operating Banks and Branches presents basic financial data by individual branch, as well as by bank.