Supervisory Priorities Index
An annual measure of what bank examiners focus on — by agency and risk domain, from 1863 to the present.
The index is constructed from the published record of the three federal banking agencies: annual reports, examination handbooks, guidance letters, and risk assessments, totaling more than 44 million words. Each document is scored against fifteen supervisory risk domains — credit, capital, liquidity, market and interest-rate risk, governance, operations and technology, compliance, and others — using a transparent dictionary method validated against independent expert annotation. Aggregated to the agency-year level, the result is a continuous record of examination emphasis spanning the full history of federal bank supervision. The index measures this institutional record; the agencies' quarter-to-quarter commentary is the province of the Attention Monitor.
| Unit | Agency × year × risk domain |
|---|---|
| Coverage | OCC 1863–2025 · Federal Reserve 1914–2026 · FDIC 1934–2024 |
| Domains | 15 supervisory risk domains |
| Source | Agency publications (public record) |
| License | CC BY |
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Current state
The quarterly brief reports where each agency's current emphasis sits relative to its own history, and the research page describes the construction and validation of the index in full.