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Failed Banks Recent Decade

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How many bank failures occurred in 2020 or later? The failure_date column is text in M/D/YYYY format — but the YEAR is always the last 4 characters. Show failure_year, failure_count, total_pre_failure_assets. Group by year, order ascending. (Useful for tracking the post-COVID stability stress wave including 2023's regional bank crisis: SVB, Signature, First Republic.)

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cert	name	city	state	failure_date	pre_failure_assets	pre_failure_deposits	resolution_type	estimated_loss
57488	METROPOLITAN CAPITAL B&T	CHICAGO	NULL	1/30/2026	261185	212152	FAILURE	NULL
5520	SANTA ANNA NATIONAL BANK	SANTA ANNA	NULL	6/27/2025	76938	71376	FAILURE	23460
28611	PULASKI SAVINGS BANK	CHICAGO	NULL	1/17/2025	49466	42741	FAILURE	30284

Expected output: Year-by-year failure count + scale

Hint

Year is the last 4 characters of failure_date: SUBSTR(failure_date, LENGTH(failure_date) - 3). Convert to INTEGER for the >= 2020 filter and the GROUP BY.

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SELECT WHERE Date Functions Aggregation GROUP BY

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