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Banks on the FDIC’s Problem Bank List
Number of FDIC-insured banks rated in the two worst supervisory grades, and their share of all banks, at each quarter end
FDIC Quarterly Banking Profile. A problem bank holds one of the two worst CAMELS composite ratings. Names are confidential. The FDIC no longer publishes the assets of problem banks.
The regulators’ own count of banks in serious trouble. It climbed through the 2008 crisis, took years to come down, and shows whether today’s strain is spreading across the thousands of smaller banks.
What this chart reads
- Number of Problem Banks (FDIC Problem Bank List)as “Problem banks”latest 2026-06-30
- Problem Banks as a Share of All Banks (FDIC)as “Share of all banks, %”latest 2026-06-30
Sources
Number of Problem Banks (FDIC Problem Bank List). Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Quarterly Banking Profile, "Deposit Insurance Fund trends charts and data" workbook (sheet "Problem Banks-DATA"), linked from fdic.gov/quarterly-banking-profile each quarter. Public domain: the FDIC data catalog (fdic.gov/data.json) licenses its banking data under the U.S. public domain label, use restriction "Unrestricted". Source: FDIC. Refreshed weekly.
Problem Banks as a Share of All Banks (FDIC). Source: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Quarterly Banking Profile, "Deposit Insurance Fund trends charts and data" workbook (sheet "Problem Banks-DATA"). Public domain (FDIC data catalog, U.S. public domain label). Source: FDIC. Refreshed weekly.
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