Glossary
H.8 commercial bank assets
H.8 commercial bank assets is release H.8 estimates the aggregate balance sheet of all US commercial banks weekly since January 1973, split into large domestic, small domestic and foreign-related aggregations. In Datadory's catalog of 1,744 datasets, Federal Reserve H.8 and H.8 coverage.geographic are working examples.
What is H.8 commercial bank assets?
Release H.8 estimates the aggregate balance sheet of all US commercial banks weekly since January 1973, split into large domestic, small domestic and foreign-related aggregations.
The small-domestic view is the closest macro proxy for regional bank balance sheets, though it identifies no individual institution.
In this catalog it appears concretely: - Federal Reserve H.8 (time coverage) — "Weekly data from January 1973 to present". - H.8 coverage.geographic — "separate aggregations for large domestic, small domestic, and foreign-related institutions".
Why does H.8 commercial bank assets matter when choosing a dataset?
A label on a listing is not a deliverable: teams that license on a name match often find the shipped files cover a narrower slice than assumed, and backfilling history costs more than the license.
The failure mode is concrete: the label appears in a listing, the delivered files tell a different story, and the gap surfaces mid-project when fixing it is most expensive.
82.4% of the 1,744 cataloged datasets are free to access, and Federal Reserve H.8 lets you inspect the real artifact before any budget is committed.
How do you evaluate H.8 commercial bank assets in a data source?
Treat every claim of this attribute as testable:
- Read Federal Reserve H.8's record on time coverage — "Weekly data from January 1973 to present" — then confirm the delivered artifact matches before you license anything.
- Open H.8 coverage.geographic and confirm its record — "separate aggregations for large domestic, small domestic, and foreign-related institutions" — against the files you actually receive.
- Pin down update cadence in writing. Across this catalog, 22.6% of 1,744 datasets refresh daily and 64 still arrive only through a manual request form, so ask exactly how fresh each release is.
- Check whether definitions are verified at all. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), and any source you license should meet that bar.
- Price the delivery route before the license. In this catalog bulk download is the most common access method (725 datasets) ahead of official APIs (574), and 379 sources still require scraping — a maintenance cost that lands on you, not the vendor.
See the term applied to real records: regional-banks data.
Related terms
Adjacent concepts worth reading next: - Federal Reserve statistical releases - flow of funds - net interest margin
Frequently asked questions
What is an example of H.8 commercial bank assets?
Federal Reserve H.8 is the clearest example in this catalog. Its record on time coverage reads: "Weekly data from January 1973 to present". Across all 1,744 datasets Datadory averages a quality score of 7.81 out of 10, so a named example can be weighed rather than trusted blindly.
Is data described as "H.8 commercial bank assets" free to use?
Treat access and permission separately. 82.4% of the 1,744 datasets in this catalog are free to access, but 235 are freemium and 61 are paid outright, so confirm both the price and the license on the exact distribution before building on it.
How do I verify a source really provides H.8 commercial bank assets?
Open Federal Reserve H.8 next to H.8 coverage.geographic and compare the promise with the download. Field definitions are verified for 1495 of 1,744 datasets (85.7%), which makes that check fast inside the catalog and manual outside it.
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Datasets containing H.8 commercial bank assets
6 datasets carry h.8 commercial bank assets in the catalog. Open one, count the fields, judge for yourself.
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