St. Louis Fed Offers Online Way To Get Banking Competition Information

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis launched a web site in 2006 intended to give bankers, consultants and the public a convenient way to view banking competition information. The application is called CASSIDI^®—Competitive Analysis and Structure Source Instrument for Depository Institutions—and is accessible at http://cassidi.stlouisfed.org.

A free application, CASSIDI® allows users to:

• view banking market definitions for any part of the country,

• search for information in a user-friendly format,

• benefit from regular updates as market structures change,

• explore “what if” (pro forma) scenarios by seeing how a potential transaction might change a banking market’s concentration or affect HHI,

• select whole institutions or individual branches as potential targets,

• look up geographic and depository information for all institutions and their branches, and

• view maps of many banking markets throughout the United States.

 

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