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Enforcement Intensity

This panel tracks formal enforcement actions across the FDIC, CFPB, and FinCEN by quarter. The charts below load parquet files directly into your browser via DuckDB-WASM and render with Observable Plot — no server required. Use the controls to filter by agency and time period.

Total Actions
Agencies Tracked
Institutions with Actions
Cross-agency enforcement actions by quarter

Actions by agency per quarter

Quarterly enforcement action counts by agency. Color indicates the issuing regulator. Hover for detail on any quarter.

Actions by type

Top 10 enforcement action types across all agencies in the selected period. Sorted by total count.

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Data sources. FDIC enforcement actions (2,866), CFPB enforcement (14), and FinCEN enforcement (11). Actions are entity-linked to FDIC certificates where possible, enabling bank-level tracking across agencies and time.

White Paper: Supervisory Escalation Dynamics

Do enforcement surges follow predictable patterns — or are they driven by agency-specific political cycles? This panel provides the quarterly action counts, penalty magnitudes, and cross-agency timing needed to test whether enforcement intensity propagates across agencies after one acts. Pair with the supervisory exposure panel for bank-level event studies.

Applications: Regulatory enforcement forecasting, penalty severity modeling, cross-agency contagion estimation, compliance cost projection

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