WARN Feed · layoffs by industry

US bank, insurance and finance layoffs — the actual WARN Act filings, rebuilt every day

2,101 bank, insurance and finance layoff and closing notices filed with state labour agencies under the WARN Act, from 1988 to 2026, covering 180,918 reported workers at 768 employers in 45 states. Free, CC BY 4.0, rebuilt every morning from the agency portals — no login, no key, no email.

Download every sector-tagged notice (CSV) This industry as its own dataset on Hugging Face

Who is in this cut

Included: banks and mortgage lenders, insurers and health-plan administrators, brokerages and asset managers, card and payments companies, credit unions, tax, payroll and accounting firms, and real-estate and property-management operators.

What counts as finance here: the employer name reads as a bank, bancorp, credit union, mortgage or consumer lender, insurer, brokerage, securities or asset-management firm, card or payments company, tax, payroll or accounting firm, or a real-estate / property-management operator — or is one of ~90 named institutions (Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Capital One, State Farm, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, PayPal, Prudential…). Health-plan administrators are here too (Blue Shield, Optum, Aetna, Humana) because they file as insurers; hospitals and clinics are NOT — the healthcare rule claims them first. Some name words are loose: properties puts Rio Properties, a Las Vegas casino, in this file. The sector_rule column shows the pattern that fired on every row, so drop any you disagree with.

Why this file exists

Bank branch closures, insurer consolidations and mortgage-lender layoffs are announced in earnings calls and trade press one institution at a time; the legal filings behind them — employer, site, workers affected, notice date, effective date, closure or layoff — sit on 48 separate state portals and are never assembled as one financial-sector series. This file is that series.

The employers with the most bank, insurance and finance notices on record

Counted per notice, not per event: a company that files in four states files four notices. Employer names are the resolved spelling — the raw agency spelling is kept in the download.

The 15 most recent bank, insurance and finance notices

Date is the notice date where the agency publishes one, otherwise the layoff date. 405 of the 2,101 notices in this cut are recorded as a closure rather than a layoff.

How the industry is decided: no state WARN portal publishes an industry field, so there is no NAICS column to filter on. The sector here is assigned from the resolved employer name by a published rule table (19 sectors, 3,152 patterns, first match wins), and every row carries the pattern that fired in its sector_rule column so you can audit or re-cut it. The archive holds 61,428 notices; 61,232 of them carry a usable date and are in the sector file (196 have no date in either column), 32,168 come out with a sector, and 29,064 stay unclassified — and are still counted in every total shown anywhere on this site. Manual audit 2026-09-12: 4 of 60 sampled rows were assigned to the wrong sector. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.

How to check any of this

Every number on this page is computed at build time from notices_by_sector.csv (one row per notice, with the sector and the rule that assigned it), and the yearly series from sector_by_year.csv. The free HTTP API serves the whole archive as JSON, NDJSON and per-state CSV with no key. This industry is also published as its own Hugging Face dataset, and the full sector cut as one file. If a number here disagrees with the file, the file is right and it is a bug — tell us and it is fixed the next morning.

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