Public-record intelligence · U.S. banks, credit unions, lenders

What changed, and the document that proves it.

Tellsign reads the public record on every U.S. bank, credit union, and covered lender each morning: enforcement actions, SEC filings, Call Reports, leadership changes. It scores each institution, ranks it against its peers, and opens on what moved. Every claim links to the filing.

10,000+Institutions read daily
31Public sources
EveryClaim cited
07:12TELLSIGN · TODAY

Needs your attention

Changes since your last look
Brightwater Community Bank

Moved from Elevated to High after an OCC consent order over BSA controls.

Index 78 from 61
C lensRead the sourceIllustrative
Calderwood Financial

Provision for credit losses more than doubled year over year in the June 30 Call Report.

$4.1M from $1.9M
F lensRead the sourceIllustrative
Thornfield Bancorp

Chief Risk Officer departure disclosed on Form 8-K, Item 5.02.

L lensRead the sourceIllustrative
Nothing else in your cohort moved.
214 INSTITUTIONS CHECKED · 6 OF 6 STREAMS COMPLETE · AS OF 07:10 ET
Peer tableBrightwater Community Bank
Banks, $1B to $3B, Southeast41 INSTITUTIONS IN GROUP · JUNE 30, 2026 CALL REPORT
Measure
Value
Pctl
Reads
Noncurrent loans to loans
1.84%
92nd
Worse than most
Brokered deposits to deposits
26.8%
96th
Above nearly all
Provision to average loans
0.71%
81st
Above the group
Return on assets
1.21%
63rd
Middle of the group
Tier 1 capital to assets
8.02%
14th
Thinner than most
A CEO's cohort, set once
Banks + credit unions
$1B to $10B in assets
Southeast region
Pinned: 6 competitors

Illustrative sample. The institutions in this frame are fictitious and the figures are worked examples. The three cases below are real, dated, and cited.

The record, this morning
10,320Institutions observed
66,326Live signals, every one cited
32Public sources
29Peer groups, six measures each
0Signals without a source
Counts from production, September 10, 2026. Nothing is estimated, and the record grows every morning.
From the record · three institutions, three lessons

What the public record looks like when you read all of it.

Three real institutions, each read straight from Tellsign's production record. Every line below links to the filing it came from, and every score carries the date it was computed.

The runwaySt. Petersburg, FL · $1.14B

BayFirst Financial Corp.

FDIC cert 34997 · Bank holding company

On July 15, 2026 the company announced it would restate 2024, 2025, and the first quarter of 2026. The record had been talking for five months.

On July 1, two weeks before the announcement, Tellsign had BayFirst at 76, High, on 28 dated signals.

91
Critical
49 SIGNALS · RECOMPUTED AUG 28, 2026
Every item is a public document. Nothing here predicts an outcome.
The contextSt. Petersburg, FL · $45.6B

Raymond James Bank

FDIC cert 33893 · Owned by a brokerage firm

Two screening thresholds tripped in the June 30 Call Report. The same filing explains both.

A threshold by itself is noise. The record beside it is the reading. Tellsign fires the threshold and shows the context on the same page.

61
High
18 SIGNALS · RECOMPUTED SEP 2, 2026
Worth a look. Read in context. That is the whole point of the score.
The patternElizabeth, NJ · $1.48B

Union County Savings Bank

FDIC cert 12013 · State savings bank

One consent order is an event. Three across four years is a pattern, and the financials now read the same way.

Each order is an official document, not a projection. Click any of the three and read what the regulator wrote.

91
Critical
23 SIGNALS · RECOMPUTED AUG 27, 2026
Confirmed and Financial lenses, firing together. The pairing that dominates the record.

Figures quoted exactly as the filings and Tellsign's production record state them, with each score's own recompute date. Indicator only. Not a regulatory rating, financial-condition determination, or legal opinion.


One record, three readers

The same cited record, read for different reasons.

Everyone who watches U.S. financial institutions is working from the same public filings. Tellsign reads them once, every morning, and hands each reader the part they came for.

You run one

The executive

CEO, CFO, CRO, board member at a bank or credit union

Every executive watches the bank across the street.

A competitor takes a consent order. A peer's loss provision doubles. A rival's capital thins for the third quarter running. It leads your morning, on your phone, with the filing behind it. On a quiet day it says so, and shows you what it checked.

What does everybody else do? 29 peer groups matched on business model and size, percentiles on every measure, each row in plain words. Set your cohort once: charter, asset band, region, the six you actually watch.

What you open it for
What is happening to my competitors, and what changed since I last looked.
You sell to them

The vendor sales team

Account executives and revenue leaders at fintech and bank-technology companies

Quote the filing on the first call.

A rep who can cite the consent order, name the new Chief Risk Officer, and reference the Call Report in the first thirty seconds is observing, not pitching. The briefing pack arrives already built, with every claim linked to its source.

Hunting ten prospects you have never called, or farming the seven accounts you own and everyone they compete with: both read from the same record. Push it to Salesforce or HubSpot at Wire. Brief is yours, on your own card, and it moves with you.

What you open it for
Who has a reason to buy this quarter, and the document to say so.
You study them

The analyst

FI investment banking, regulatory advisory, counsel, funds with a financial-institutions vertical

A screen you can defend, row by row.

Ten thousand institutions with a published methodology under every number. Custom universes matched to your target list, white-labeled briefing packs, and an API when the model needs the feed rather than the page.

Every figure reproduces from the source record, so it survives the diligence read.

What you open it for
A defensible screen, and the citation for every row.

The automated workflow

A public filing goes in. Cited intelligence comes out.

It runs every morning without an analyst in the loop, and every step can be audited from the reader's chair. When the June 30 Call Report published in late August, Tellsign read all 4,276 banks and rescored them the same morning.

Runs every morning · recomputed every three hours
Public record
31 sources
EDGAR · FDIC · OCC · Federal Reserve
CFPB · NCUA · FinCEN · FTC
state regulators · state attorneys general
Six lenses
CDF
LOU
Score and rank
0 to 100
Distress Index, published math
29 peer groups, percentiles on every measure
Where it lands
Attention feedon sign-in, phone first
Case fileone page per institution
Briefing packcited PDF, one tap
CRM pushSalesforce · HubSpot · Wire
Source · excerpt · timestamp on every signal. Nothing renders without all three.

The taxonomy

Six lenses on the public record.

Each lens is one category of public evidence. Together they cover what a regulator did, what the institution disclosed, what its numbers say, who left, what broke, and what people are saying.

C

Confirmed action

A regulator publicly acted. Consent orders, formal agreements, civil money penalties.

OCC · FDIC · Federal Reserve · CFPB · NCUA · FinCEN · states
D

Disclosed risk

Risk-factor language the institution wrote about itself in its 10-K and 10-Q filings.

SEC EDGAR
F

Financial deterioration

Capital, credit quality, earnings, funding and concentration, restatements, the Texas ratio. Absolute thresholds, peer percentiles, and change over time. The signal fires at 30 days past due; most eyes wait for the charge-off.

Call Reports · NCUA 5300
L

Leadership transitions

Executive departures and arrivals, the Chief Risk Officer above all. Coverage is partial today, and the product says where.

SEC 8-K, Item 5.02
O

Operational signals

Core-system, digital-banking, and cyber-incident disclosures.

SEC 8-K current events
U

Unverified chatter

Press and trade coverage. Off by default, and never in the Index unless you turn it on.

News and RSS · opt-in only
Three readings from the Financial lens, this week
43%of banks file no risk-based capital ratios. They elect the community bank leverage framework instead. Tellsign reads it directly, so every bank carries a capital reading.1,819 of 4,272 banks · June 30, 2026 Call Report
168banks whose provision for credit losses more than doubled year over year. A provision that doubles is management's own forecast of losses still coming, in its own filing.Live signals · September 8, 2026
160banks with a Texas ratio above 25. One number every banker knows on sight, computed for all 4,276 banks and cited to the filing.Live signals · September 8, 2026

Where the public record is thin, Tellsign shows the gap rather than filling it. Credit unions carry Confirmed and Financial coverage today; non-bank lenders carry Confirmed. Each institution's case file states what is covered and what is not.


Why it holds up in the room

Built to be quoted.

Whether the room is a board meeting, a first sales call, or a diligence review, the same three rules hold.

Every claim is an official document

A public link, the verbatim excerpt, and the time it was read. The database refuses a signal missing any of the three (source_url, source_excerpt, as_of_timestamp), so there is no path for an unsourced claim to reach a page. Nothing fires unless you can click through to the filing.

The math is published

The Distress Index is open, lens by lens, on a public methodology page. Toggle a lens or a source class and watch the number recompute. No hidden weights, no black box, no language model deciding what matters.

Quiet days come with a receipt

Reporting that arrives on schedule becomes wallpaper. When nothing moved, Tellsign says so and shows what it checked: every institution in your cohort, every stream, the time it finished. Honest disclosure is structural, not a setting.


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