Distribution of Credit Card Loans by Banks Size, 1994-2018
Credit card lending has seen major growth for banks in the past decades. Giant banks dominate credit card lending today, with a 65 percent share.… Read More
Number of New Banks Created by Year, 1993 to 2018
The number of community banks has declined sharply in the last decade. Most of the decline is owed to the fact that virtually no new banks have been created since 2009. Why the sudden absence of new banks?… Read More
Share of Deposits by Size of Institution, 1994 to 2018
The share of U.S. deposits held by the largest financial institutions has exploded from 8 percent in 1994 to 52 percent in 2018, as these three charts show.… Read More
Number of Banks in the U.S., 1966-2017 (Graph)
The total number of commercial banks in the U.S. began a period of dramatic decline in the late 1980s and early 90s. … Read More
Bank Market Share by Size of Institution, 1994 to 2018
As these six graphs show, bank market share has changed dramatically between 1994 and 2018 as giant banks have come to dominate the banking sector.… Read More
Small Business Lending by Size of Institution, 2018
In 2018, community-based financial institutions made 52 percent of all small business loans, even though they controlled only 16 percent of banking assets.… Read More
Distribution of Deposits and Assets by Size of Bank, 1994-2018
In the past decades, both total bank assets and total deposits have concentrated at the giant banks, those with over $100.2 billion in assets.… Read More
Small Business Loans as a Share of Assets, 2018
Small and mid-sized financial institutions devote a greater share of their assets to small business lending than big banks.… Read More
Measuring the Impact of the Bank of North Dakota (Graphs)
Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other states.… Read More