Antitrust Radar
Policy AgendaAR-PA-020 / reviewed Aug 13, 2026 JSON

Near-term / Ownership transparency

Publish durable ownership crosswalks

Release annual machine-readable links among branches, insured institutions, bank holding companies, acquisitions, name changes, and reporting corrections so large geographic shifts can be audited across vintages.
Source records1report custody
Linked markets0analytical context
Research themes2publication taxonomy
Evidence needs5future verification inputs
Recommendation evidence chain

The source boundary stays visible from analysis to proposed action.

02Evidence custody1 sources / 0 marketsLinked context, not independent endorsement
03Normative recommendationAR-PA-020Ownership transparency
04Implementation evidenceNot assessedNo adoption or impact inference
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Source report position

State Banking Structure, 2015-2025

Public banking oversight should use annual statewide branch-deposit screens to locate structural change, then test those signals with local market, ownership, product, pricing, entry, and access evidence before drawing enforcement conclusions.
Intended audience
FDIC, Federal Reserve, OCC, DOJ, state attorneys general, and state banking agencies
Policy priority
Near-term
Instrument
Ownership transparency
Publication
AR-RB-2026-03 / version 1.0
Canonical citation
Antitrust Radar Research Team. (2026, July 20). State Banking Structure, 2015-2025: Stable national concentration can coexist with large state-level shifts. Competition Research Briefs, AR-RB-2026-03 (Version 1.0). Antitrust Radar. https://antitrustradar.org/reports/state-banking-structure-2015-2025
Evidence still needed

Inputs required to investigate the recommendation and its effects.

  1. 01Annual branch-to-holding-company ownership crosswalks
  2. 02Merger, entry, exit, and reporting-change event records
  3. 03Local product-level deposit and lending shares
  4. 04Prices, fees, service quality, switching, and branch-access outcomes
  5. 05Inflation-adjusted and deposit-category context
These are research requirements, not evidence that an agency has opened, adopted, or completed the work.
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