Information on banks and banking worldwide?

Answered By: Bobray Bordelon

Last Updated: Jun 16, 2025 Views: 270

For the United States, use the Bank portion of Compustat available through Wharton Research Data Service (WRDS). A video showing how to do a simple retrieval is here. Note that a WRDS account (available to currently-affiliated Princeton researchers) is required.

For Call Reports from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) go to WRDS. More recent information may be available directly from the FDIC. For 1987-1993, see the FDIC Bulk Download Site for summary of deposit data.
S&P Global. Financial Institutions (formerly SNL Financial Institutions) (FIG). USA data is back to 1981. International back coverage goes back to at least 2010 with many of the significant institutions in Europe dating to 2005 and Asia-Pacific to 2008. To register to use for academic research at Princeton please contact Bobray Bordelon at bordelon@princeton.edu. Existing users login.
Bankscope. 1980-2016. Product ceased. Detailed international banking data.

To find banking institutions and subsidiaries, identify banking markets, and perform a "what if" (pro forma) HHI analysis, use Cassidi, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis banking structure analysis website.
For international banking concentration, see Global Financial Development.

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