A measurement record of U.S. bank supervision
The Supervisory Compass
Data on what the federal banking agencies examine, write, and enforce
— from the National Banking Acts to the present.
Fed — Cincinnati branch Fed — Pittsburgh branch Fed — Baltimore branch Fed — Charlotte branch Fed — Birmingham branch Fed — Jacksonville branch Fed — Miami branch Fed — Nashville branch Fed — New Orleans branch Fed — Detroit branch Fed — Little Rock branch Fed — Louisville branch Fed — Memphis branch Fed — Helena branch Fed — Denver branch Fed — Oklahoma City branch Fed — Omaha branch Fed — El Paso branch Fed — Houston branch Fed — San Antonio branch Fed — Los Angeles branch Fed — Portland branch Fed — Salt Lake City branch Fed — Seattle branch FDIC — Albany, GA field office FDIC — Columbia, SC field office FDIC — Richmond field office FDIC — Deerfield Beach field office FDIC — Montgomery field office FDIC — Scott Depot field office FDIC — Tampa field office FDIC — Charlotte field office FDIC — Raleigh field office FDIC — Birmingham field office FDIC — Lexington, MA field office FDIC — Windsor, CT field office FDIC — Braintree field office FDIC — Bedford, NH field office FDIC — Appleton field office FDIC — Columbus field office FDIC — Indianapolis field office FDIC — Madison field office FDIC — Princeton, IL field office FDIC — Champaign field office FDIC — Wixom (Detroit) field office FDIC — Lexington, KY field office FDIC — Brookfield (Milwaukee) field office FDIC — Springfield, IL field office FDIC — Downers Grove (Chicago) field office FDIC — Eau Claire field office FDIC — Louisville field office FDIC — Mount Vernon, IL field office FDIC — Albuquerque field office FDIC — Dallas (field) field office FDIC — Jackson, MS field office FDIC — Lubbock field office FDIC — Shreveport field office FDIC — Austin field office FDIC — Denver field office FDIC — Knoxville field office FDIC — Nashville field office FDIC — Baton Rouge field office FDIC — Houston field office FDIC — Little Rock field office FDIC — Oklahoma City field office FDIC — Cedar Rapids field office FDIC — Fargo field office FDIC — Kansas City (field) field office FDIC — Omaha field office FDIC — Springfield, MO field office FDIC — Columbia, MO field office FDIC — Grand Island field office FDIC — Mankato field office FDIC — Sioux City field office FDIC — Chesterfield (St. Louis) field office FDIC — West Des Moines field office FDIC — Hays field office FDIC — Golden Valley (Minneapolis) field office FDIC — Sioux Falls field office FDIC — Wichita field office FDIC — Catonsville (Baltimore) field office FDIC — Monroe, NJ field office FDIC — Talleyville, DE field office FDIC — New York (field) field office FDIC — Syracuse field office FDIC — Harrisburg field office FDIC — Blue Bell (Philadelphia) field office FDIC — Seven Fields (Pittsburgh) field office FDIC — Billings field office FDIC — Mesa (Phoenix) field office FDIC — Salt Lake City field office FDIC — Pasadena (Los Angeles) field office FDIC — Portland field office FDIC — San Francisco (field) field office FDIC — Mission Viejo field office FDIC — Roseville (Sacramento) field office FDIC — Seattle field office OCC — Alexandria, MN OCC — Atlanta, GA OCC — Billings, MT OCC — Birmingham, AL OCC — Boston, MA OCC — Charlotte, NC OCC — Chicago, IL OCC — Downers Grove, IL OCC — Blue Ash, OH OCC — Cleveland, OH OCC — Dublin, OH OCC — Dallas, TX OCC — Irving, TX OCC — Denver, CO OCC — Edison, NJ OCC — Fargo, ND OCC — Houston, TX OCC — Indianapolis, IN OCC — Overland Park, KS OCC — Little Rock, AR OCC — Longview, TX OCC — Glendale, CA OCC — Louisville, KY OCC — Lubbock, TX OCC — Miami, FL OCC — Wauwatosa, WI OCC — Minneapolis, MN OCC — Brentwood, TN OCC — Metairie, LA OCC — New York, NY OCC — Oklahoma City, OK OCC — Omaha, NE OCC — Peoria, IL OCC — Trevose, PA OCC — Monroeville, PA OCC — Roanoke, VA OCC — San Antonio, TX OCC — Carlsbad, CA OCC — San Francisco, CA OCC — Santa Ana, CA OCC — Seattle, WA OCC — Sioux Falls, SD OCC — St. Louis, MO OCC — East Syracuse, NY OCC — Tampa, FL OCC — Tulsa, OK OCC — Wichita, KS Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of New York Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Fed — Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco FDIC — New York regional office FDIC — Boston regional office FDIC — Atlanta regional office FDIC — Chicago regional office FDIC — Kansas City regional office FDIC — Dallas regional office FDIC — San Francisco regional office Fed — Board of Governors FDIC — FDIC headquarters OCC — Washington, DC Boston New York Philadelphia Cleveland Richmond Washington Atlanta Chicago St. Louis Minneapolis Kansas City Dallas San Francisco
Offices of the three federal banking agencies. Large markers are Reserve
Banks and regional offices; small markers are branches and field offices.
The FDIC's San Juan field office is not shown.
Three federal agencies supervise American banks: the Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency (1863), the Federal Reserve (1913), and the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1933). Each leaves a long written
record — annual reports, examination handbooks, guidance letters, risk
assessments, enforcement orders. This project converts that record into
measurement: structured panels of supervisory attention, industry
structure, and bank-level risk that can be compared across agencies and
across 160 years.
Data
Annual measure of examination emphasis across risk domains, by agency,
1863–present. Built from 44 million words of agency publications.
How much of a bank's supervisor's attention falls on that bank's
vulnerabilities — quarterly, for every insured bank.
Entry, exit, charter flipping, and the division of banking assets
across the three federal supervisors.
What the agencies are writing about now: quarterly topic emphasis in
guidance letters, bulletins, and risk reports since 1989.
Briefs
Each quarter we publish a short brief on the state of bank supervision: what
moved, what diverged across agencies, and how current emphasis compares with
the historical record.
Read the current brief .
Research
The measurement behind the site is developed in
academic work on the history and political economy
of bank supervision.