H.8 - Assets and Liabilities of Commercial Banks (headline)
Federal Reserve H.8 statistical release (weekly Friday). Headline balance sheet for ALL commercial banks: total assets and liabilities, U.S. government securities, business loans, real estate loans, consumer loans, cash, deposits, large time deposits, borrowings, and residual. Domestic-vs-foreign and large-vs-small bank splits are out of scope for this endpoint. Data drawn live from FRED with 1-hour cache.
Query parameters
Weeks of history to return (default 52, max 260).
Weeks of history to return (default 52, max 260).
When true, include discontinued and superseded series in the response. Default false returns only release_status=active series.
When true, include discontinued and superseded series in the response. Default false returns only release_status=active series.
Response
H.8 weekly observation grid with series_metadata + failed_series envelope.
Example response
{
"data": {
"series_metadata": [
{
"series_id": "WALCL",
"title": "Total Assets, All Federal Reserve Banks",
"units": "Millions of Dollars",
"frequency": "weekly",
"release_status": "active"
}
],
"weekly_data": [
{
"observation_date": "2026-05-12"
}
]
},
"meta": {
"endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
"data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
"response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
"provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
"source": "sugra_crypto",
"attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
"fallback_chain": [
"sugra_crypto",
"sugra_finance"
]
}
}