RSSD ID: The RSSD ID is the unique identifier the Federal Reserve assigns to every financial institution in its National Information Center.
Where it comes from
Assigned by the Fed and used as the primary key on the call report itself, which is why every bank page on this site carries it. It covers holding companies and branches as well as banks, so a bank and its parent hold different RSSD ids.
How to read it
If you are joining call report data to anything else, the RSSD id is the key to join on. Names change, certificate numbers retire, and the RSSD is the one identifier that is stable and present on every FFIEC file.
The common mistake. Joining on the bank name. The FFIEC files names in capitals and in legal form, so the same institution shows up as several different strings across sources, and a name join silently drops banks or merges two of them.
Go deeper
- How to read a call report
- How to build a bank peer group
- BankingLens pricing and what a subscription adds: percentile rank against the bank’s own FFIEC peer group, fourteen quarters of trend, and the flags an examiner reaches for first.
See also. FDIC certificate number, Call report, FFIEC peer group.
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