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title: "FR 2644: Weekly Report of Selected Assets and Liabilities (restricted access)"
description: >-
  FR 2644 is the Federal Reserve's confidential weekly bank balance-sheet
  collection from a sample of domestic banks and FBO branches. It underlies the
  published H.8 aggregates but the bank-level data is confidential. This page
  documents what it is and the gotchas, but it was not exercised here.
sidebar:
  label: FR 2644
tags: [banks, balance-sheet, banking, federal-reserve, data:fr2644]
---

:::caution[Confidential supervisory data: not exercised here]
**FR 2644 bank-level data is confidential** and collected by the Federal Reserve.
The published H.8 aggregates derived from it are public, but the **bank-level**
records carry **no provenance badge**: there is no access path we can run here.
Researchers reach the bank-level data only through a Federal Reserve affiliation
or an approved restricted-data arrangement, inside a secure environment, with
output subject to disclosure review. The page documents what the collection is
and the gotchas; treat it as unverified. This is the honest grade under the
institute's Verified discipline.
:::

**FR 2644** (the Weekly Report of Selected Assets and Liabilities of Domestically
Chartered Commercial Banks and U.S. Branches and Agencies of Foreign Banks) is
the **weekly** balance-sheet collection from a sample of banks that supports the
Federal Reserve's published H.8 release on commercial-bank assets and
liabilities. Key asset and liability categories are reported weekly for domestic
banks and FBO branches. A paper we distill uses it:
[Anderson, Du & Schlusche](/wiki/papers/jf/2025/anderson-arbitrage-capital-global-banks-2025/)
use FR 2644 weekly bank balance-sheet data for U.S.-based entities (domestic
banks and FBO branches) to study balance-sheet adjustments to funding shocks
(their balance-sheet regressions use 50 banks with FR 2644 data).

- **Cost:** not for sale at the bank level. The H.8 aggregates are published free.
- **Collector:** Federal Reserve Board (the FR 2644 collection, basis of H.8).
- **Coverage:** a weekly-reporting sample of domestic banks and FBO branches;
  selected balance-sheet categories. The sample is a panel of reporters, not the
  full banking system.

## Access (restricted)

- **The H.8 aggregates are public; the bank-level data is not.** The Fed posts
  the weekly H.8 aggregates; the underlying FR 2644 bank-level records are
  confidential and are not posted.
- **Through a Federal Reserve affiliation or approved program.** Bank-level
  access is limited to researchers at the Federal Reserve System or others
  granted entry to the restricted data, worked inside a secure environment with
  output subject to disclosure review.
- The published **form and instructions** are public, so the field definitions
  can be read even though the bank-level data cannot be pulled.

## Gotchas (the ones that bite pipelines)

These are the failure modes to expect; they are documented, not verified here.

- **It is a weekly-reporter sample, not a census.** Only sampled banks report
  weekly, and the published H.8 is estimated by benchmarking the sample to the
  full population (from the quarterly Call Reports). Bank-level FR 2644 is the
  sample, not every bank.
- **Selected categories only.** The report carries selected asset and liability
  lines, not a full balance sheet; do not expect every Call Report item. Map your
  variable to the FR 2644 line definition.
- **Weekly versus quarterly reconciliation.** FR 2644 is weekly while the
  population benchmark (Call Reports) is quarterly; the two do not line up
  observation-for-observation. Be explicit about which series you use and why.
- **Sample composition changes.** The set of weekly reporters is refreshed over
  time, breaking the panel for non-economic reasons. Track the reporter set for
  your window.
- **Definitions change across vintages.** Lines and instructions are revised; a
  category can change basis between versions. Read the instructions for your
  sample period.
- **Output is disclosure-reviewed and cannot be redistributed.** Bank-level
  results leave the secure environment only after review, and the micro-data
  itself cannot be shared.

## Citation

Cite the collection and collector, e.g.: *FR 2644 (Federal Reserve Board),
confidential supervisory data; accessed under restricted-data arrangement,
YYYY-MM-DD.* For the public series, cite the Federal Reserve H.8 release. State
the balance-sheet lines, the sample window, and the reporter population for your
period.