# FDIC Failed Bank History Lookup

> FDIC Failed Bank History Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.008/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Retrieves historical US bank failure records from the FDIC failed-bank list, filterable by bank name, FDIC cert number, state, or year, including failure details and financial metrics.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.agentstools.dev/bankhealth/failures
- Price: $0.008/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/fdic-failed-bank-history-lookup-b73324fd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Tgw3n5-htj5Hkjh8C9BWA

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability fdic-failed-bank-history-lookup-b73324fd
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the FDIC failure records for all banks that failed in 2023 — I want to see the failure date, resolution type, deposits and assets for Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, filterable access to historical US bank failure data sourced from the FDIC failed-bank list. Prefer this over general web search when you need machine-readable financial metrics (deposits, assets, estimated cost) for one or more failed banks, or when filtering by state, year, or specific institution. Especially useful for research on notable 2023 failures like Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank.

## Known failure modes

- No matching records found for the given filters — returns empty result set
- Invalid state code (not a valid 2-letter US state abbreviation) — returns error or empty result
- FDIC cert number not found — returns empty result
- Year out of realistic range — may return empty result or validation error
- Combination of filters yields no overlap — returns empty result

## How this service works

History of US bank failures and assisted acquisitions from the public FDIC failed-bank list. Filter by bank name, FDIC cert number, 2-letter state or year and get matching records with the failure date, resolution type, city and state and the deposits, assets and estimated cost at failure. Covers the 2023 failures including Silicon Valley, Signature and First Republic.

## Output

A list of matching bank failure records from the FDIC dataset, each including the bank name, city, state, failure date, resolution type, FDIC certificate number, and financial figures (total deposits, total assets, and estimated loss cost) at the time of failure.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "cert": {
       "type": "integer",
       "description": "FDIC certificate number"
      },
      "name": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Bank name to look up failures for (resolved via FDIC cert)"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 2100,
       "minimum": 1900,
       "description": "Failure year"
      },
      "state": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "2-letter US state code"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

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