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Diversified Financial Services Data for Journalists
Nine clear top relevance for reporting, led by the Fed Board, FDIC, Treasury FiscalData and EDGAR, and mean quality is 8.5 out of 10.
diversified financial services statistics for journalism · cited data sources for academic papers · where do journalists find data stories
API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
What does diversified financial services data look like to a reporter?
This screen takes the records Datadory tags for reporting, teaching and citation work in diversified financial services. Three earn perfect scores — the BIS Data Portal, the Federal Reserve Economic Data Portal (Board Releases) and SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search API (EFTS).
One property matters most for provenance-first work: nearly every entry is its own primary publisher.
Which regulator do you cite first for US banking and debt claims?
Its static companion, FiscalData Treasury API Documentation, supplies the citation-ready metadata you quote alongside the number.
Where do you fact-check corporate claims and adviser conduct?
SEC EDGAR Full-Text Search API (EFTS) is the fastest path from a corporate claim to a document: it returns JSON in real time, each hit carrying citable form-type and filing-date metadata drawn from public-domain filings.
Two further records round out accountability coverage. OpenSanctions Dataset distributes provenance-backed statements.csv daily for sanctioned-actor investigations under non-commercial terms that fit newsroom use, while CFTC Bank Participation Reports put banks' derivatives exposure on the record every month as HTML straight from the regulator.
What serves cross-country comparisons and the classroom?
Domestic teaching examples get two Fed Board products: the weekly Federal Reserve Yield Curve (FEDS) Daily CSV for term-structure explainers, and the quarterly Federal Reserve MDRM Data Dictionary, which documents exactly which reported items mean what in bank statistics.
Straight answers
Where do journalists find data stories about banks and financial conglomerates?
Start with the regulators who publish the raw numbers: the Federal Reserve Economic Data Portal for rates and flow of funds, FDIC Bank Data & Statistics for deposits and failures, FiscalData Treasury for debt-to-the-penny, and SEC EDGAR full-text search for filings.
Which cited data sources hold up best in academic papers on financial systems?
Pick sources with long, mechanically published histories: the Fed Board portal spans seven decades of public-domain tables, World Bank WDI reaches back to 1960, and BIS banking and derivatives statistics ship in SDMX-ML for reproducible pulls. Cite the primary publisher, name the release date, and archive the exact file you used.
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Sample rows from any shelf entry — the field dictionary and coverage notes ride along. If the shelf misses what you need, say so; sourcing requests are half our job.
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