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The 5 Best Asset Management & Custody Banks Datasets in 2026

5 Asset management custody banks picks, ranked on what's inside: field richness, coverage depth, fit for the job. Federal Reserve Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States leads — Sector assets growing or shrinking against bank deposits and pension reserves — see investors quants use cases.

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  • 1documented fields on stage
  • 1/5with mapped coverage

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Every dataset here carries a 0–10 score built on documented fields, and the ranking follows those scores. When records tie, coverage breaks it: more geography, deeper history, finer granularity. Cadence isn't a scoring axis — it's a delivery setting. Delivered daily, weekly, or hourly, your call.

  1. 1 10/10
    Asset management custody banks

    Federal Reserve Z.1 Financial Accounts of the United States

    Sector assets growing or shrinking against bank deposits and pension reserves — see investors quants use cases.

  2. 2 10/10
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    SEC Form N-PORT Data Sets

    Why it ranks second: nothing else shows what every US registered fund held at security level, and its dedicated lending and collateral columns quantify an activity most desks only ever see described in prose.

  3. 3 9/10
    Asset management custody banks United States, national · H.8 weekly from 1973

    Federal Reserve Data Download Program

    Five documented spine fields

    Funds rate, curve, credit growth, bank credit - off one shelf instead of reconciling three release formats (investors & quants).

  4. 4 9/10
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    Federal Reserve H.8 - Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks

    Why it ranks fourth: weekly deposit, loan and securities grain over five decades is unmatched by any quarterly regulatory panel - with the deliberate trade-off that it names no individual institution.

  5. 5 8/10
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    FRED Category 13 - Banking Data Sub-tree

Frequently asked questions

What is the best dataset for US sector balance sheets?

The Federal Reserve Z.1 Financial Accounts ranks first: quarterly flows and levels from 1945:Q4 across households, businesses, governments, banks, money market funds, mutual funds, ETFs, insurers and pensions, published as 286 CSV tables per quarterly vintage with annual series reaching 1919.

Can I measure securities lending exposure across the whole fund industry?

Yes - N-PORT dedicates explicit columns to securities lending in every quarterly archive, so industry-wide lending and collateral activity can be summed across all registered funds rather than inferred from narrative disclosures. Pair it with the Z.1 to set that exposure against total fund-sector assets.

Which record works best for discovering candidate banking features?

FRED Category 13 - Banking Data Sub-tree: roughly 5,200 to 6,700 individually addressable banking series inside a parent Money, Banking & Finance tree exceeding 20,000, many starting between 1959 and 1985. Browse what exists first, then wire the chosen series into your models with stable identifiers.