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Credit Scores and Rising Credit Card Delinquencies
Economic Insights — COVID disrupted credit scores. What, if anything, did that have to do with the subsequent rise in credit card delinquencies?
Featured Work
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A Guide to Understanding Mortgage-Backed Securities
Research in Focus — James Vickery of the Philadelphia Fed and his coauthors discuss the mortgage-backed securities (MBS) market in detail, with a special focus on government-backed residential MBS.
Working Paper
Token-Based Platform Governance
WP 25-17 – We develop a model to compare the governance of a traditional platform to the governance of a platform that issues digital tokens to users.
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Banking Trends: Where Depositors Fear to Tread
Economic Insights — What should policymakers do when depositors flee banks, as they did after Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in 2023? Much depends on how banks create liquidity.
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Institutions in the Third District
This interactive tool summarizes information about banks and holding companies within the Third District (comprising eastern and central Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware) and provides each institution’s location and asset size as of the most recent quarter.
Updated: 19 May ’25
Third District Banking Conditions
Third District Banking Conditions is a semiannual report comparing the trends of Third District community banks with their national peers.
Updated: 10 Mar ’25
Large Bank Credit Card and Mortgage Data
The Large Bank Consumer Credit Data are based on Y-14M credit card and mortgage data provided by the largest financial institutions in the United States.
Updated: 08 Jul ’25