Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request, 12141-12154 [2013-04035]

Agencies

• FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION
• FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
• DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 35 (Thursday, February 21, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12141-12154]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04035]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION


Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment 
Request

AGENCIES:  Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury; 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board); and Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

ACTION: Joint notice and request for comment.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. chapter 35), the OCC, the Board, and the 
FDIC (the ``agencies'') may not conduct or sponsor, and the respondent 
is not required to respond to, an information collection unless it 
displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
control number. The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 
(FFIEC), of which the agencies are members, has approved the agencies' 
publication for public comment of a proposal to extend, with revision, 
the Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (Call Report), which 
are currently approved collections of information. The addition of 
proposed new data items and the proposed revisions of some existing 
data items would take effect as of the June 30, 2013, report date, 
except for one proposed new data item that would be added to the Call 
Report effective December 31, 2013. At the end of the comment period, 
the comments and recommendations received will be analyzed to determine 
the extent to which the FFIEC and the agencies should modify the 
proposed revisions prior to giving final approval. The agencies will 
then submit the revisions to OMB for review and approval.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 22, 2013.

ADDRESSES: Interested parties are invited to submit written comments to 
any or all of the agencies. All comments, which should refer to the OMB 
control number(s), will be shared among the agencies.
    OCC: You should direct all written comments to: Communications 
Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mailstop 6W-11, 
Attention: 1557-0081, Washington, DC 20219. In addition, comments may 
be sent by electronic mail to regs.comments@occ.treas.gov. You may 
personally inspect and photocopy comments at the OCC, 400 7th Street 
SW., Washington, DC 20219. For security reasons, the OCC requires that 
visitors make an appointment to inspect comments. You may do so by 
calling (202) 649-6700. Upon arrival, visitors will be required to 
present valid government-issued photo identification and to submit to 
security screening in order to inspect and photocopy comments.
    All comments received, including attachments and other supporting 
materials, are part of the public record and subject to public 
disclosure. Do not enclose any information in your comment or 
supporting materials that you consider confidential or inappropriate 
for public disclosure.
    Board: You may submit comments, which should refer to 
``Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (FFIEC 031 and 041),'' 
by any of the following methods:
     Agency Web Site: https://www.federalreserve.gov. Follow the 
instructions for submitting comments at: https://www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/ProposedRegs.cfm.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: regs.comments@federalreserve.gov. Include reporting 
form number in the subject line of the message.
     FAX: (202) 452-3819 or (202) 452-3102.
     Mail: Robert deV. Frierson, Secretary, Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 
Washington, DC 20551.

All public comments are available from the Board's web site at 
www.federalreserve.gov/generalinfo/foia/ProposedRegs.cfm as submitted, 
unless modified for technical reasons. Accordingly, your comments will 
not be edited to remove any identifying or contact information. Public 
comments may also be viewed electronically or in paper in Room MP-500 
of the Board's Martin Building (20th and C Streets NW.) between 9:00 
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. on weekdays.
    FDIC: You may submit comments, which should refer to ``Consolidated 
Reports of Condition and Income, 3064-0052,'' by any of the following 
methods:
     Agency Web Site: https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/propose.html. Follow the instructions for submitting comments 
on the FDIC Web site.
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Email: comments@FDIC.gov. Include ``Consolidated Reports 
of Condition and Income, 3064-0052'' in the subject line of the 
message.
     Mail: Gary A. Kuiper, Counsel, Attn: Comments, Room NYA-
5046, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20429.
     Hand Delivery: Comments may be hand delivered to the guard 
station at the rear of the 550 17th Street Building (located on F 
Street) on business days between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m.
    Public Inspection: All comments received will be posted without 
change to https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/federal/propose.html 
including any personal information provided. Comments may be inspected 
at the FDIC Public Information Center, Room E-1002, 3501 Fairfax Drive, 
Arlington, VA

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22226, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on business days.
    Additionally, commenters may send a copy of their comments to the 
OMB desk officer for the agencies by mail to the Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Office of Management and Budget, New 
Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, 
DC 20503; by fax to (202) 395-6974; or by email to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For further information about the 
revisions discussed in this notice, please contact any of the agency 
clearance officers whose names appear below. In addition, copies of the 
Call Report forms can be obtained at the FFIEC's Web site (https://www.ffiec.gov/ffiec_report_forms.htm).
    OCC: Mary Gottlieb and Johnny Vilela, OCC Clearance Officers, (202) 
649-6301 and (202) 649-7265, Legislative and Regulatory Activities 
Division, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC 
20219.
    Board: Cynthia Ayouch, Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer, 
(202) 452-3829, Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System, 20th and C Streets NW., Washington, DC 
20551. Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) users may call 
(202) 263-4869.
    FDIC: Gary A. Kuiper, Counsel, (202) 898-3877, Legal Division, 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW., Washington, 
DC 20429.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The agencies are proposing to revise and 
extend for three years the Call Report, which is currently an approved 
collection of information for each agency.
    Report Title: Consolidated Reports of Condition and Income (Call 
Report).
    Form Number: Call Report: FFIEC 031 (for banks and savings 
associations with domestic and foreign offices) and FFIEC 041 (for 
banks and savings associations with domestic offices only).
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit.

OCC

    OMB Number: 1557-0081.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,902 national banks and federal 
savings associations.
    Estimated Time per Response: 54.87 burden hours per quarter to 
file.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 417,416 burden hours to file.

Board

    OMB Number: 7100-0036.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 843 state member banks.
    Estimated Time per Response: 56.76 burden hours per quarter to 
file.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 191,395 burden hours to file.

FDIC

    OMB Number: 3064-0052.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 4,464 insured state nonmember 
banks and state savings associations.
    Estimated Time per Response: 41.53 burden hours per quarter to 
file.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 741,560 burden hours to file.
    The estimated time per response for the quarterly filings of the 
Call Report is an average that varies by agency because of differences 
in the composition of the institutions under each agency's supervision 
(e.g., size distribution of institutions, types of activities in which 
they are engaged, and existence of foreign offices). The average 
reporting burden for the filing of the Call Report as it is proposed to 
be revised is estimated to range from 17 to 730 hours per quarter, 
depending on an individual institution's circumstances.
    Type of Review: Revision and extension of currently approved 
collections.

General Description of Reports

    These information collections are mandatory: 12 U.S.C. 161 (for 
national banks), 12 U.S.C. 324 (for state member banks), 12 U.S.C. 1817 
(for insured state nonmember commercial and savings banks), and 12 
U.S.C. 1464 (for federal and state savings associations). At present, 
except for selected data items, these information collections are not 
given confidential treatment.

Abstract

    Institutions submit Call Report data to the agencies each quarter 
for the agencies' use in monitoring the condition, performance, and 
risk profile of individual institutions and the industry as a whole. 
Call Report data provide the most current statistical data available 
for evaluating institutions' corporate applications, identifying areas 
of focus for on-site and off-site examinations, and monetary and other 
public policy purposes. The agencies use Call Report data in evaluating 
interstate merger and acquisition applications to determine, as 
required by law, whether the resulting institution would control more 
than ten percent of the total amount of deposits of insured depository 
institutions in the United States. Call Report data also are used to 
calculate institutions' deposit insurance and Financing Corporation 
assessments and national banks' and federal savings associations' 
semiannual assessment fees.

Current Actions

I. Overview

    The agencies are proposing to implement a number of revisions to 
the Call Report requirements in 2013. These changes, which are 
discussed in detail in Sections II.A through II.F of this notice, are 
intended to provide data needed for reasons of safety and soundness or 
other public purposes by the members of the FFIEC that use Call Report 
data to carry out their missions and responsibilities, including the 
agencies, the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (Bureau), and 
state supervisors of banks and savings associations. Several proposed 
new data items would be added to the Call Report as of the June 30, 
2013, report date, and certain existing data items would be revised as 
of the same date. One proposed new data item, which would be collected 
annually, would be added to the Call Report effective December 31, 
2013.
    The proposed changes include:

 A screening question that would be added to Schedule RC-E, 
Deposit Liabilities, asking whether the reporting institution offers 
separate deposit products (other than time deposits) to consumer 
customers compared to business customers, and
    [cir] For those institutions with $1 billion or more in total 
assets that offer separate products, new data items on the quarter-end 
amount of certain types of consumer transaction accounts and 
nontransaction savings deposit accounts that would be reported in 
Schedule RC-E, and
    [cir] For all institutions that offer separate products, a new 
breakdown on the year-to-date amounts of certain types of service 
charges on consumer deposit accounts reported as noninterest income in 
Schedule RI, Income Statement;

 Information on international remittance transfers in Schedule 
RC-M, Memoranda, including:
    [cir] Questions about types of international remittance transfers 
offered, the settlement systems used to process the transfers, and 
whether the number of remittance transfers provided exceeds or is 
expected to exceed the Bureau's safe harbor threshold (more than 100 
transfers); and
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institutions not qualifying for the safe harbor on the number and 
dollar amount of international remittance transfers;

 Reporting in Schedule RC-M of all trade names that an 
institution uses to identify physical branches and Internet Web sites 
that differ from the institution's legal title;
 Additional data to be reported in Schedule RC-O, Other Data 
for Deposit Insurance and FICO Assessments, by large institutions and 
highly complex institutions (generally, institutions with $10 billion 
or more in total assets) to support the FDIC's large bank pricing 
method for insurance assessments, including a new table of consumer 
loans by loan type and probability of default band, new data items 
providing information on loans secured by real estate in foreign 
offices, revisions of certain existing data items on real estate loan 
commitments and U.S. government-guaranteed real estate loans to include 
those in foreign offices, and revisions to the information collected on 
government-guaranteed assets to include the portion of non-agency 
residential mortgage-backed securities and loans covered under FDIC 
loss-sharing agreements.
 A new data item in Schedule RC-M applicable only to 
institutions whose parent depository institution holding company is not 
a bank or savings and loan holding company in which the institution 
would report the total consolidated liabilities of its parent 
depository institution holding company annually as of December 31 to 
support the Board's administration of the financial sector 
concentration limit established by Section 622 of the Dodd-Frank Wall 
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 111-203 (Dodd-
Frank Act); and
 A revision of the scope of the existing item in Schedule RI-A, 
Changes in Bank Equity Capital, for ``Other transactions with parent 
holding company'' to include such transactions with all stockholders.

    For the June 30, 2013, and December 31, 2013, report dates, as 
applicable, institutions may provide reasonable estimates for any new 
or revised Call Report data item initially required to be reported as 
of that date for which the requested information is not readily 
available. The specific wording of the captions for the new or revised 
Call Report data items discussed in this proposal and the numbering of 
these data items should be regarded as preliminary.

II. Discussion of Proposed Call Report Revisions

A. Consumer Deposit Account Balances and Service Charges

    The agencies propose to modify Schedule RC-E, Deposit Liabilities, 
to collect and distinguish certain deposit data by type of depositor 
for institutions with $1 billion or more in total assets. The agencies 
also propose to modify Schedule RI, Income Statement, to collect data 
on certain service charges on consumer deposit accounts (in domestic 
offices) from all institutions that offer such accounts.
    To identify the institutions that would be subject to these 
proposed new reporting requirements, the proposed modifications would 
include a screening question in Schedule RC-E concerning whether an 
institution offers consumer deposit accounts, i.e., accounts intended 
for use solely by individuals for personal, household, or family 
purposes. The question would be added to Schedule RC-E as of the June 
30, 2013, report date. If the institution has $1 billion or more in 
total assets and responds affirmatively to the screening question, the 
institution would be subject to the proposed Schedule RC-E consumer 
deposit account reporting requirements discussed below in Section 
II.A.1.; otherwise, it would not be subject to these new Schedule RC-E 
reporting requirements.\1\ Regardless of how an institution with less 
than $1 billion in total assets responds to the screening question, it 
would be exempt from the proposed Schedule RC-E reporting requirements. 
The agencies plan to review the aggregate responses to the screening 
question after one full year of implementation to determine whether to 
expand the new Schedule RC-E reporting requirements to some or all 
smaller institutions.
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    \1\ In general, the determination as to whether an institution 
has $1 billion or more in total assets would be measured as of June 
30 of the previous calendar year, i.e., as of June 30, 2012, for the 
proposed new Schedule RC-E reporting requirements.
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    In addition, each institution, regardless of size, that responds 
affirmatively to the screening question to be added to Schedule RC-E 
would be subject to the proposed Schedule RI reporting requirements 
discussed below in Section II.A.2 effective June 30, 2013.
1. Consumer Deposit Account Balances
    Schedule RC-E currently requires institutions to report separately 
transaction account and nontransaction account balances held in 
domestic offices according to broad categories of depositors. Over 90 
percent of the reported balances are attributed to the category of 
depositors that includes ``individuals, partnerships, and 
corporations.'' \2\ Deposits that are held by individual consumers are 
not distinguished from deposits held by partnerships or corporations.
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    \2\ Percentage is based on analysis of third quarter 2012 Call 
Report data.
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    Surveys indicate that over 90 percent of U.S. households maintain 
at least one deposit account.\3\ However, there is currently no 
reliable source from which to calculate the amount of funds held in 
consumer accounts.
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    \3\ See FDIC, 2011 FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and 
Underbanked Households 4 (September 2012); Brian K. Bucks, Arthur B. 
Kennickell, Traci L. Mach, and Kevin B. Moore, Changes in U.S. 
Family Finances from 2004 to 2007: Evidence from the Survey of 
Consumer Finances, 95 Federal Reserve Bulletin A1, A20 (February 
2009), available at: https://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/bulletin/2009/pdf/scf09.pdf; see also Kevin Foster, Erik Meijer, Scott Schuh, 
and Michael Zabek, The 2009 Survey of Consumer Payment Choice, 
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Public Policy Discussion Papers, No. 
11-1, at 47 (2011), available at: https://www.bos.frb.org/economic/ppdp/2011/ppdp1101.pdf.
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    The agencies propose that institutions that respond affirmatively 
to the screening question and have $1 billion or more in total assets 
distinguish consumer deposits from those held by partnerships and 
corporations. More detailed Call Report data would significantly 
enhance the ability of the agencies and the Bureau to monitor 
consumers' behavior--specifically, consumer use of deposit accounts as 
transactional, savings, and investment vehicles. Understanding deposit 
accounts by depositor type would also permit improved assessments of 
institutional liquidity risk. Thus, more detailed data could 
significantly enhance the ability of the agencies to assess 
institutional funding stability.
    In 2010, the agencies proposed the disaggregation of consumer- or 
individually-owned deposits from those of businesses and organizations, 
i.e., partnerships and corporations. That proposal, however, would have 
required banks to distinguish consumer deposit balances by the account 
owner taxpayer identification number (TIN). The TIN methodology was 
ultimately deemed to be too burdensome, and the agencies withdrew the 
proposal from consideration.\4\
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    \4\ Agency Information Collection Activities, 76 FR 5253, 5261 
(Jan. 28, 2011).
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    This current proposal is based on an alternative approach that the 
agencies believe to be less burdensome for

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depository institutions. Specifically, the agencies propose to require 
institutions to report in Schedule RC-E balances held in domestic 
transaction account products and nontransaction savings products that 
the institutions themselves intended for consumer use (rather than to 
report balances held in accounts actually used exclusively by 
individuals). Depository institutions recognize that consumers exhibit 
different needs and behaviors than do organizations and businesses. 
Consequently, the FFIEC and the agencies believe that most institutions 
maintain transaction and nontransaction savings deposit products 
specifically intended for consumer use, typically assigning different 
funding credit rates and tenure assumptions to consumer deposits than 
to business and other types of deposits. The FFIEC and the agencies 
believe this distinction will enable institutions to utilize the same 
totals maintained on their deposit systems of record and in their 
internal general ledger accounts to provide the proposed new consumer 
deposit account balance data.\5\ The agencies propose to introduce the 
modifications to Schedule RC-E for the reporting of consumer deposit 
account data in the Call Report for the second quarter of 2013.
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    \5\ The FFIEC and the agencies believe that most depository 
institutions with distinct product offerings have instances in which 
proprietorships and microbusinesses utilize consumer deposit 
products; however, the amount of these balances is believed to be 
only a fraction of total consumer product balances and thus would 
not diminish the value of the substantial insight gained into the 
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    At the same time, the FFIEC and the agencies anticipate that 
certain institutions cater almost exclusively to non-consumer 
depositors and, as such, may not maintain segment-specific products. 
The proposal aims to identify these institutions by requiring all 
institutions to respond to the screening question (which would be 
designated as Memorandum item 5 of Schedule RC-E): ``Does your 
institution offer consumer deposit accounts, i.e., transaction account 
or nontransaction savings account deposit products intended for 
individuals for personal, household, or family use?'' Institutions with 
total assets of $1 billion or more and answering ``yes'' to this 
screening question would be subject to the proposed new Schedule RC-E 
consumer deposit account reporting requirements. Institutions with 
total assets less than $1 billion or answering ``no'' to the question 
would be exempt from these new reporting requirements and would 
continue to report deposit totals in Schedule RC-E as they currently 
do.
    The $1 billion threshold is proposed to ensure no undue burden on 
smaller institutions. However, the agencies intend to review small 
institution responses to the screening question after one year of 
implementation to determine whether to maintain or adjust the asset 
size exemption.
    The FFIEC and the agencies understand that most institutions define 
time deposit products by tenure and rate and do not typically maintain 
time deposit accounts exclusively targeted to consumers. Thus, this 
proposal pertains only to non-time deposits in domestic offices.
    More specifically, the agencies propose to revise Schedule RC-E, 
(part I), by building on new Memorandum item 5, the screening question 
described above, and adding new Memorandum item 6, ``Components of 
total transaction account deposits of individuals, partnerships, and 
corporations,'' which would be completed by institutions with total 
assets of $1 billion or more that responded ``yes'' to the screening 
question posed in new Memorandum item 5. Proposed new Memorandum item 6 
would include the following three-way breakdown of these transaction 
accounts, the sum of which must equal Schedule RC-E, item 1, column A.

 In Memorandum item 6.a, ``Deposits in noninterest-bearing 
transaction accounts intended for individuals for personal, household, 
or family use,'' institutions would report the amount of deposits 
reported in Schedule RC-E, (part I), item 1, column A, held in 
noninterest-bearing transaction accounts (in domestic offices) intended 
for individuals for personal, household, or family use. The item would 
exclude certified and official checks as well as pooled funds and 
commercial products with sub-account structures, such as escrow 
accounts, that are held for individuals but not eligible for consumer 
transacting, saving, or investing.
 In Memorandum item 6.b, ``Deposits in interest-bearing 
transaction accounts intended for individuals for personal, household, 
or family use,'' institutions would report the amount of deposits 
reported in Schedule RC-E, (part I), item 1, column A, held in 
interest-bearing transaction accounts (in domestic offices) intended 
for individuals for personal, household, or family use. The item would 
exclude pooled funds and commercial products with sub-account 
structures, such as escrow accounts, that are held for individuals but 
not eligible for consumer transacting, saving, or investing.
 In Memorandum item 6.c, ``Deposits in all other transaction 
accounts of individuals, partnerships, and corporations,'' institutions 
would report the amount of all other transaction account deposits 
included in Schedule RC-E, (part I), item 1, column A, that were not 
reported in Memorandum items 6.a and 6.b. If an institution offers one 
or more transaction account deposit products intended for individuals 
for personal, household, or family use, but has other transaction 
account deposit products intended for a broad range of depositors 
(which may include individuals who would use the product for personal, 
household, or family use), the institution would report the entire 
amount of these latter transaction account deposit products in 
Memorandum item 6.c. For example, if an institution has a single 
negotiable order of withdrawal (NOW) account deposit product that it 
offers to all depositors eligible to hold such accounts, including 
individuals, sole proprietorships, certain nonprofit organizations, and 
certain government units, the institution would report the entire 
amount of its NOW accounts in Memorandum item 6.c. The institution 
would not need to identify the NOW accounts held by individuals for 
personal, household, or family use and report the amount of these 
accounts in Memorandum item 6.a.

    The agencies also propose to revise Schedule RC-E, (part I), by 
adding new Memorandum item 7, ``Components of total nontransaction 
account deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations,'' 
which would be completed by institutions with total assets of $1 
billion or more that responded ``yes'' to the screening question posed 
in new Memorandum item 5. Proposed new Memorandum item 7 would include 
breakdowns of the nontransaction savings deposit accounts of 
individuals, partnerships, and corporations (in domestic offices) 
included in Schedule RC-E, item 1, column C, described below. 
Nontransaction savings deposit accounts consist of money market deposit 
accounts (MMDAs) and other savings deposits. Specifically, proposed 
Memorandum item 7.a would include

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breakouts of ``Money market deposit accounts (MMDAs) of individuals, 
partnerships, and corporations.'' Proposed Memorandum item 7.b would 
include breakouts of ``Other savings deposit accounts of individuals, 
partnerships, and corporations.'' Proposed Memorandum item 7 would 
exclude all time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and 
corporations reported in Schedule RC-E, item 1, column C. As with 
proposed new Memorandum item 6 on the components of total transaction 
accounts of individuals, partnerships, and corporations, if an 
institution offers one or more nontransaction savings account deposit 
products intended for individuals for personal, household, or family 
use, but has other nontransaction savings account deposit products 
intended for a broad range of depositors (which may include individuals 
who would use the product for personal, household, or family use), the 
institution would report the entire amount of these latter 
nontransaction savings account deposit products in Memorandum item 
7.a.(2) or 7.b.(2), as appropriate.

 In Memorandum item 7.a.(1), ``Deposits in MMDAs intended for 
individuals for personal, household, or family use,'' institutions 
would report the amount of deposits reported in Schedule RC-E, (part 
I), item 1, column C, held in MMDAs intended for individuals for 
personal, household, or family use. The item would exclude MMDAs in the 
form of pooled funds and commercial products with sub-account 
structures, such as escrow accounts, that are held for individuals but 
not eligible for consumer transacting, saving, or investing.
 In Memorandum item 7.a.(2), ``Deposits in all other MMDAs of 
individuals, partnerships, and corporations,'' institutions would 
report the amount of all other MMDA deposits included in Schedule RC-E, 
(part I), item 1, column C, that were not reported in Memorandum item 
7.a.(1).
 In Memorandum item 7.b.(1), ``Deposits in other savings 
deposit accounts intended for individuals for personal, household, or 
family use,'' institutions would report the amount of deposits reported 
in Schedule RC-E, (part I), item 1, column C, held in other savings 
deposit accounts intended for individuals for personal, household, or 
family use. The item would exclude other savings deposit accounts in 
the form of pooled funds and commercial products with sub-account 
structures, such as escrow accounts, that are held for individuals but 
not eligible for consumer transacting, saving, or investing.
 In Memorandum item 7.b.(2), ``Deposits in all other savings 
deposit accounts of individuals, partnerships, and corporations,'' 
institutions would report the amount of all other savings deposits 
included in Schedule RC-E, (part I), item 1, column C, that were not 
reported in Memorandum item 7.b.(1).

    The sum of Memorandum items 7.a.(1), 7.a.(2), 7.b.(1), and 7.b.(2) 
plus the amount of all time deposits of individuals, partnerships, and 
corporations must equal Schedule RC-E, item 1, column C.
    The agencies seek specific comment on the clarity of the screening 
question that would be posed to all institutions in new Memorandum item 
5 of Schedule RC-E, (part I,) and of the descriptions of the components 
of total transaction and total nontransaction account deposits of 
individuals, partnerships, and corporations that would be reported in 
new Memorandum items 6 and 7 of Schedule RC-E, (part I,) by 
institutions with total assets of $1 billion or more that responded 
``yes'' to the screening question posed in new Memorandum item 5.
2. Consumer Deposit Service Charges
    The agencies propose to modify Call Report Schedule RI, Income 
Statement, by adding new Memorandum item 15 in which institutions that 
responded ``yes'' to the new screening question posed in Memorandum 
item 5 of Schedule RC-E, (part I,) would report a breakdown of the 
amount reported in Schedule RI, item 5.b, ``Service charges on deposit 
accounts (in domestic offices).'' \6\ The proposed breakdown would 
include separate items for three categories of consumer deposit fees: 
(1) Overdraft-related service charges, (2) monthly maintenance charges, 
and (3) automated teller machine (ATM) fees. A fourth item would 
include all other service charges and fees on deposit accounts (in 
domestic offices) not reported in one of the first three categories. 
Although these new items would be reported on a calendar year-to-date 
basis, the agencies propose to introduce new Memorandum item 15 of 
Schedule RI in the Call Report for the second quarter of 2013.
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    \6\ The breakdown of service charges on deposit accounts would 
be reported by all institutions that answered the screening question 
in the affirmative, not just institutions with $1 billion or more in 
total assets.
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    The aggregate amount of deposit account fees reported today in 
Schedule RI, item 5.b, represents a substantial portion of industry 
operating income. Service charges on deposits totaled more than $33 
billion in 2011 \7\ and can include dozens of types of fees that 
institutions levy against consumers, small businesses, large 
corporations, and other types of deposit customers. Dependence upon 
service charges on deposit accounts is higher for smaller institutions 
and may account for 30 percent or more of such an institution's 
noninterest revenues.\8\
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    \7\ Figure is based on analysis of Call Report data.
    \8\ The ratio for all banks was 13.8 percent in 2011 per 
analysis of Call Report data.
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    However, there is currently no comprehensive data source from which 
supervisors and policymakers can estimate or evaluate the composition 
of these fees and how they impact consumers and a depository 
institution's earnings stability. The agencies thus propose that 
institutions that offer consumer deposit accounts itemize three key 
categories of service charges on such deposit accounts: Overdraft-
related service charges on consumer accounts, monthly maintenance 
charges on consumer accounts, and consumer ATM fees.
    More detailed data will support the agencies and the Bureau in 
monitoring the types of transactional costs borne by consumers. Data 
specific to overdraft-related fees is particularly pertinent for 
supervisors and policymakers in part because of recent trends in such 
fees and because of concerns about the harm such fees may impose on 
some depositors. The FFIEC and the agencies believe that, since the 
early 1990s, overdraft-related fees have grown in absolute magnitude 
and may also have grown as a share of deposit account service charges. 
Several factors contributed to this trend, including the introduction 
of bank-discretionary overdraft coverage programs, consumers' 
acclimation to debit cards and other emerging forms of payment, and the 
industry's embracing of ``free'' checking products that sacrificed 
monthly maintenance fees and increased reliance on penalty and other 
transactional fees to generate service charge revenues. Bankrate.com's 
2012 Checking Account Survey suggests that the average fee charged for 
a single overdraft transaction has increased steadily and dramatically 
over the last 15 years.\9\
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    More recently, however, overdraft-related fee revenue as a 
percentage of deposit account service charges may have begun to 
decline. Regulation and guidance proposed or issued by various agencies 
in recent years and a 2008 study issued by the FDIC raised concerns 
about potential consumer harm resulting from bank-discretionary 
overdraft coverage programs.\10\ Additionally, starting in 2010, 
depository institutions have been prohibited from imposing a charge for 
paying an ATM or one-time debit card transaction unless they have 
obtained the consumer's affirmative consent to the overdraft service, 
among other requirements.\11\ Consumer advocacy groups have further 
raised public awareness of industry practices, as have class action 
lawsuits and settlements related to such practices. The FFIEC and the 
agencies believe that, in response, many depository institutions have 
revised fee schedules, account agreements, and internal policies and 
procedures pertaining to overdraft transactions. Some industry 
representatives contend that these and other economic factors may have 
helped account for a reduction in service charges on deposit accounts 
by 22 percent from levels prevailing just two years ago.\12\
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    \10\ OCC, Guidance on Deposit-Related Consumer Credit Products, 
76 FR 33409 (June 8, 2011) (proposed guidance); FDIC, Overdraft 
Payment Programs and Consumer Protection Final Overdraft Payment 
Supervisory Guidance, FIL-81-2010 (Nov. 24, 2010), available at: 
www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2010/fil10081.html; 74 FR 59033 
(Nov. 17, 2009) (amendment of Regulation E); see also 74 FR 5584 
(July 29, 2009) (amendment of Regulation DD); FDIC Study of Bank 
Overdraft Programs (Nov. 2008), available at: https://www.fdic.gov/bank/anlytical/overdraft/.
    \11\ 12 CFR 1005.17.
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    An institution reliant on declining deposit fee revenue that makes 
no other changes to its business model could be challenged to maintain 
a viable retail banking business. To replace lost overdraft income, as 
well as interchange revenue impacted by the Dodd-Frank Act's amendment 
to Section 920 of the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, many institutions 
have altered their pricing of checking products to require consumers to 
maintain higher average balances or pay monthly account maintenance 
fees.\13\ Additionally, institutions that have deployed large ATM 
networks may continue to look to recoup their investment and 
maintenance costs through surcharges and foreign ATM transaction fees. 
New sources of deposit service charges could emerge to contribute to 
revenue stability but raise further questions about the amount of fees 
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    \13\ Bankrate.com's 2012 Checking Account Survey found 39 
percent of institutions offering consumer checking accounts with no 
minimum balance requirement or monthly maintenance fee in 2012, down 
from 76 percent in 2009. Bankrate.com, ``Checking Fees Rise to 
Record Highs in 2012,'' Claes Bell, available at: https://www.bankrate.com/finance/checking/checking-fees-record-highs-in-2012.aspx#slide=2.
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    As a result, greater understanding of trends in overdraft fees and 
other deposit service charges is necessary to assess institutional 
health and enhance understanding of the costs and potential risks 
financial services pose to consumers.\14\
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    \14\ The FDIC's 2008 Study of Bank Overdraft Programs provided 
insight into these fees, but the data underlying that study is now 
six years old and only a small subset of the industry participated 
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    The FFIEC and the agencies believe that the vast majority of 
institutions track individual categories of deposit account service 
charges as distinct revenue line items within their general ledger or 
other management information systems, which would facilitate the 
reporting of service charge information in the Call Report. However, 
the FFIEC and the agencies recognize that internal accounting and 
recordkeeping practices may vary across institutions and that 
disaggregating all types of fees could be burdensome on smaller 
institutions. Because the FFIEC and the agencies believe that 
overdraft-related, monthly maintenance, and ATM fees are of most 
immediate concern to supervisors and policymakers, this proposal calls 
for the separation of these consumer deposit service charges only.
    As noted in the consumer deposit balance proposal discussed above, 
the FFIEC and the agencies anticipate that certain institutions cater 
almost exclusively to non-consumer markets, and as such, may not 
maintain segment-specific products. The FFIEC and the agencies do not 
expect these institutions to differentiate within their accounting and 
operational systems between fees levied against consumer versus non-
consumer depositors. Thus, the agencies propose to utilize responses to 
the proposed Schedule RC-E consumer deposit account screening question 
to govern deposit service charge reporting requirements. Specifically, 
institutions that report ``yes'' to the question posed in proposed 
Schedule RC-E, Memorandum item 5, ``Does your institution offer 
consumer deposit accounts, i.e., transaction account or nontransaction 
savings account deposit products intended for individuals for personal, 
household, or family use?,'' would be subject to the proposed new 
reporting requirements of Schedule RI, Memorandum item 15, while those 
that respond ``no'' would not. There is no proposed exemption from 
these Schedule RI reporting requirements for institutions with total 
assets less than $1 billion that answer ``yes'' to the Schedule RC-E 
screening question.
    As mentioned above, the agencies propose to add a new Memorandum 
item 15, ``Components of service charges on deposit accounts (in 
domestic offices)'' to Schedule RI, which would include the following 
specific items:

 Memorandum item 15.a, ``Consumer overdraft-related service 
charges on deposit accounts.'' For deposit accounts intended for 
individuals for personal, household, and family use, this item would 
include service charges and fees related to the processing of payments 
and debits against insufficient funds, including ``nonsufficient funds 
(NSF) check charges,'' that the institution assesses with respect to 
items that it either pays or returns unpaid, and all subsequent charges 
levied against overdrawn accounts, such as extended or sustained 
overdraft fees charged when accounts maintain a negative balance for a 
specified period of time, but not including those equivalent to 
interest and reported elsewhere in Schedule RI (``Interest and fee 
income on loans (in domestic offices)'').
 Memorandum item 15.b, ``Consumer account monthly maintenance 
charges.'' For deposit accounts intended for individuals for personal, 
household, and family use, this item would include service charges for 
account holders' maintenance of their deposit accounts with the 
institution (often labeled ``monthly maintenance charges''), including 
charges resulting from the account owners' failure to maintain 
specified minimum deposit balances or meet other requirements (e.g., 
requirements related to transacting and to purchasing of other 
services), as well as fees for transactional activity in excess of 
specified limits for an account and recurring fees not subject to 
waiver.
 Memorandum item 15.c, ``Consumer customer ATM fees.'' For 
deposit accounts maintained at the institution and intended for 
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household, and family use, this item would include service charges for 
transactions, including deposits to or withdrawals from deposit 
accounts, conducted through the use of ATMs or remote service units 
(RSUs) owned, operated, or branded by the institution or other 
institutions. The item would not include service charges levied against 
deposit accounts maintained at other institutions for transactions 
conducted through the use of ATMs or RSUs owned, operated, or branded 
by the reporting institution.\15\
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 Memorandum item 15.d, ``All other service charges on deposit 
accounts.'' This item would include all other service charges on 
deposit accounts (in domestic offices) not reported in Schedule RI, 
Memorandum items 15.a, 15.b, and 15.c. Memorandum item 15.d would 
include service charges and fees on an institution's deposit products 
intended for use by a broad range of depositors (which may include 
individuals), rather than being intended for individuals for personal, 
household, and family use. Thus, for such deposit products, an 
institution would not need to identify the fees charged to accounts 
held by individuals for personal, household, or family use and report 
these fees in one of the three categories of consumer deposit fees.

    For institutions that report ``yes'' to the Schedule RC-E screening 
question, the sum of Memorandum items 15.a through 15.d must equal 
Schedule RI, item 5.b, ``Service charges on deposit accounts (in 
domestic offices).''
    The agencies seek specific comment on the clarity of the 
definitions proposed for the three categories of consumer deposit 
account service charges and on whether institutions' general ledger 
systems or deposit account processing systems currently support the 
separate identification of these three categories of service charges. 
If these systems do not enable institutions to identify all three 
service charge categories for consumer deposits, comment is requested 
on the categories of consumer deposit account service charges for which 
data are available.

B. Remittance Transfers

    The agencies propose to add a new item 16 to Schedule RC-M, 
Memoranda, to collect data regarding certain international transfers of 
funds. The new item would facilitate supervision and monitoring related 
to remittance transfers, which are a subset of international transfers 
of funds that are newly regulated, but about which there is no 
comprehensive information available. Subitems within new item 16 would 
include multiple choice questions directed to all institutions 
regarding their participation in the remittance market and seek 
additional information from those institutions that provided more than 
100 remittance transfers in the prior calendar year and expect to 
provide more than 100 remittance transfers in the current calendar 
year. The agencies propose to introduce new Schedule RC-M, item 16, in 
the second quarter of 2013.
    Section 1073 of the Dodd-Frank Act amended the Electronic Fund 
Transfer Act (EFTA) to create a consumer protection regime for 
remittance transfers, i.e., certain electronic transfers of funds 
requested by a consumer sender to a designated recipient abroad that 
are sent by a remittance transfer provider. To implement the Dodd-Frank 
Act's remittance transfer requirements, the Bureau issued rules that 
were set to take effect on February 7, 2013. 77 FR 6194 (Feb. 7, 2012); 
77 FR 40459 (July 10, 2012); 77 FR 50244 (Aug. 20, 2012) (collectively, 
``remittance transfer rule'').
    For covered transactions sent by ``remittance transfer providers,'' 
the Dodd-Frank Act generally requires the provision of disclosures, 
establishes cancellation and refund rights, and requires the 
investigation and resolution of errors. However, the remittance 
transfer rule includes a safe harbor under which a person, including an 
insured depository institution, that provided 100 or fewer remittance 
transfers in the previous calendar year and provides 100 or fewer 
remittance transfers in the current calendar year is deemed not to 
provide remittance transfers in the normal course of its business, and 
thus is not subject to the Dodd-Frank Act requirements. 12 CFR Sec.  
1005.30(f)(2)(i). Furthermore, the statute provides insured banks, 
savings associations, and credit unions a temporary exception under 
which they may provide estimates for certain disclosures in some 
instances. The exception expires five years after the enactment of the 
Dodd-Frank Act, i.e., on July 21, 2015. If the Bureau determines that 
expiration of this ``temporary exception'' would negatively affect the 
ability of insured institutions to send remittances to foreign 
countries, the Bureau may extend the exception to not longer than ten 
years after enactment.
    In December 2012, the Bureau issued a notice of proposed rulemaking 
regarding three elements of the remittance transfer rule, and to 
propose that the effective date of the entire rule be extended until 90 
days after the Bureau issues a final rule. See 77 FR 77187, December 
31, 2012. The FFIEC and the agencies do not expect that the proposed 
changes would affect the need for or the timing of the new item. 
However, when the effective date of the rule is finalized, the agencies 
will consider whether it may be appropriate to introduce some or all of 
new item 16 in the third quarter of 2013 or later, rather than in the 
second quarter of 2013.\16\
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effective date of the remittance transfer rule pending the 
finalization of the Bureau's December 2012 proposal. See 78 FR 6025, 
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    The available data regarding the transactions and institutions 
covered by the Dodd-Frank Act remittance transfer requirements are very 
limited. For example, the FFIEC and the agencies believe that many 
insured institutions offer consumers methods to send money abroad. At 
the same time, as explained in the preamble to the Bureau's rule 
published on August 20, 2012, data collected by the Bureau suggests 
that a meaningful number of institutions may qualify for the 100-
transfer safe harbor in the remittance transfer rule. See 77 FR 50244, 
50252. However, the FFIEC and the agencies are unaware of any 
comprehensive data available to identify reliably the number of 
institutions that offer consumers mechanisms for sending money abroad, 
or the subset of such institutions that qualify for the 100-transfer 
safe harbor.
    Similarly, the FFIEC and the agencies are unaware of any 
comprehensive industry data regarding trends in the remittance transfer 
market. For example, some industry participants and industry 
associations have suggested that the Dodd-Frank Act remittance transfer 
requirements, as implemented, may cause some institutions to change or 
stop providing remittance transfer services. Such changes would affect 
individual institutions' compliance requirements, and also could have 
an impact on the nature and scope of services available to consumers 
who want to send money abroad. But the FFIEC and agencies do not know 
of any comprehensive data source that will provide information on 
whether or not these changes take place. Existing research on market 
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licensed money transmitters, not those provided by insured 
institutions.
    The lack of comprehensive, reliable data regarding remittance 
transfers by institutions could restrict the agencies' and the Bureau's 
ability to provide supervisory oversight and to monitor important 
industry trends. In the absence of accurate and comprehensive market-
wide or institution-level data, the agencies, the Bureau, and other 
regulators would likely have to rely on individual examination 
findings, ad-hoc surveys, estimates, or limited public data to 
characterize the market as a whole and to understand institution-
specific activities and risks.
    The proposed new Schedule RC-M item would substantially aid 
supervisory oversight and market monitoring. Institution-specific data 
would help examiners to prioritize, focus, and refine their 
examinations. Industry-wide data would also enable monitoring of 
industry trends that could affect both providers and consumers of 
remittance transfers. For example, proposed new item 16 would 
facilitate monitoring of market entry and exit. Such monitoring would 
improve understanding of the consumer payments landscape generally, and 
facilitate evaluation of the remittance transfer rule's impact. Also, 
data regarding the number of remittance transfers that institutions 
provide can contribute to monitoring of the Bureau's 100-transfer safe 
harbor, which was the source of a number of comments and a range of 
opinions during the Bureau's rulemaking.\17\ Data regarding the 
services offered and systems used by individual institutions could 
additionally enable the FFIEC and the agencies to more finely tune 
supervisory procedures and policies.
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Bureau commit to reevaluating the safe harbor threshold, the Bureau 
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    The proposed new item would also help inform any later policy 
decisions regarding remittance transfers. For example, the FFIEC and 
the agencies expect that the proposed data collection would contribute 
to any later analysis of whether expiration of a temporary exception 
for insured institutions would negatively affect the ability of insured 
institutions to send remittances to foreign countries. As discussed 
below, the proposed new item includes a question regarding the 
frequency with which the temporary exception is used; institutions' 
responses could provide information on the importance of the exception 
to individual institutions, or the market as a whole. Additionally, the 
proposed new item could assist the Board in reporting to Congress on 
expansion of the use of the ACH system and other payment mechanisms for 
remittance transfers to foreign countries, as required by section 
1073(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, and inform other statutorily required 
initiatives related to remittance transfers, such as assistance to the 
Financial Literacy and Education Commission in executing the Strategy 
for Assuring Financial Empowerment as it relates to remittance 
transfers, as required by section 1073(c)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
    To identify market participation, and changes that occur after the 
remittance transfer rule takes effect, the proposed schedule would 
include a one-time question regarding 2012 and an ongoing quarterly 
question that asks all institutions whether, during the relevant 
period, they offered to consumers in any state certain mechanisms for 
sending money to recipients abroad. The categories of mechanisms listed 
in the one-time and ongoing question include international wire 
transfers, international ACH transactions, other proprietary services 
operated by the reporting institution, other proprietary services 
operated by another party (such as a state-licensed money transmitter) 
for which the reporting institution is an agent or similar type of 
business partner, and ``other.'' The agencies seek comment on whether 
different categories of mechanisms should be listed, and whether 
including the ``other'' mechanism category is necessary.
    To facilitate monitoring of the 100-transfer safe harbor and the 
identification of institutions that may be required to comply with the 
Dodd-Frank Act remittance transfer requirements, an additional annual 
screening question would seek information from all institutions as to 
whether they expect to qualify for the 100-transfer safe harbor.\18\ 
The item would ask whether the reporting institution provided more than 
100 remittance transfers in the previous calendar year or whether it 
estimates that it will provide more than 100 remittance transfers in 
the current calendar year. An answer of ``yes'' would indicate that the 
institution likely does not qualify for the safe harbor.
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    In addition, the subset of institutions whose answers to the annual 
screening question suggests that they likely do not qualify for the 
100-transfer safe harbor \19\ would complete three quarterly items 
providing additional information about the reporting institution's 
remittance transfers. Two items would seek information about 
institutions' use of certain payment, messaging, or settlement systems 
for international wire and international ACH transactions, which the 
FFIEC and the agencies believe currently account for the great majority 
of remittance transfers sent by institutions. The questions would focus 
on the systems that an institution uses in initiating transactions on 
its customers' behalf (rather than systems used by other institutions 
involved in the same transaction). This information can aid the 
agencies' evaluation of institutions' international wire and ACH 
practices. Among other things, the FFIEC and the agencies believe that 
an institution's choice of payment, messaging, and settlement systems 
may affect the processes it uses to comply with the Dodd-Frank Act 
remittance transfer requirements. For example, the systems used may 
affect the ways in which institutions investigate and resolve errors.
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for the safe harbor related to the term ``normal course of 
business'' will not be a ``remittance transfer provider'' and will 
not be required to comply with the Dodd-Frank Act remittance 
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    Specifically, the first of the two items would seek information on 
the payment, messaging, or settlement systems that an institution uses 
to process outbound international wire transfers for consumers. An 
institution would be asked to report whether it uses each of the listed 
systems for some, none, or all of its outbound international wire 
transfers for consumers. The systems listed in this item would include 
FedWire, CHIPS, SWIFT, a correspondent bank of which the reporting 
institution is a client, and other (with an instruction that the 
institution identify the ``other'' system). The agencies seek comment 
on whether these categories of systems are appropriate, and whether 
additional systems should be added to the list for this item and why.
    Similarly, the second item would seek information on the payment, 
messaging, or settlement systems that institutions use to send outbound 
international ACH transactions for consumers. An institution would be 
asked to report whether it uses each of the listed systems for some, 
none, or all of its outbound international ACH transactions for 
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FedACH, EPN, SWIFT, a correspondent bank of which the reporting 
institution is a client, and other (with an instruction that the 
institution identify the ``other'' system). The agencies seek comment 
on whether these categories of systems are appropriate, and whether 
additional systems should be added to the list for this item and why.
    Finally, for the subset of institutions whose answers to the annual 
screening question suggest that they likely do not qualify for the 100-
transfer safe harbor, the proposed new Schedule RC-M items would seek 
information on the volume and dollar value of remittance transfers 
provided, and the frequency with which the reporting institution uses 
the temporary exception for insured institutions. Specifically, the 
agencies propose to seek volume and dollar value information with 
regard to certain categories of mechanisms offered to consumers for 
international transfers. The agencies propose that these categories 
correspond to the categories in the one-time and ongoing quarterly 
question regarding the reporting institution's market participation 
(e.g., international wire transfers, international ACH transactions, 
other proprietary services operated by the reporting institution, other 
proprietary services operated by another party, and ``other''). For 
each category of mechanism, a reporting institution would provide the 
total number of qualifying transactions provided in the prior quarter, 
the total dollar value of the principal of such transactions, and the 
number of transactions to which the temporary exception applied. The 
subitems would apply to services offered to consumers, rather than 
services provided to another institution on a correspondent basis.
    The agencies propose that the number of transactions and the 
related dollar values should include all transfers (a) that are 
``remittance transfers'' as defined in 12 CFR Sec.  1005.30(e), 
regardless of whether the institution or another party is the 
remittance transfer provider, and (b) that the institution does not 
know for certain are remittance transfers, but for which the 
disclosures described in Subpart B of Regulation E were provided. The 
agencies propose that if the reporting institution did not provide any 
remittance transfers to consumers in the normal course of its business, 
it should not be required to provide the requested number and dollar 
value of transactions.
    The agencies recognize that questions regarding the volume and 
dollar value of transactions would seek information that banks may not 
have recorded or compiled previously. However, the FFIEC and the 
agencies expect that in order to comply with the Dodd-Frank Act 
remittance transfer requirements, institutions or their business 
partners, such as correspondent banks or payment networks, may build 
systems to enable institutions to identify remittance transfers as 
such.
    The agencies propose that if institutions are not reasonably able 
to provide actual amounts for the volume and dollar value of transfers 
and number of uses of the temporary exception, that they provide 
estimates that are accurate at least to two significant digits.\20\ The 
agencies seek comment on the feasibility of such estimates, as well as 
comment on the feasibility of providing actual figures; the date by 
which banks may be able to provide actual figures, if not by June 2013; 
and the relative benefits or costs of using a different estimation 
approach or a different methodology to report the requested data, such 
as the reporting of transaction volume within certain ranges (e.g., 
between 1,000 and 10,000 transfers). With regard to the proposed 
Schedule RC-M subitem on the volume and dollar value of transactions, 
the agencies additionally seek comment on whether the scope of the 
transactions included in the calculations is appropriate, as well as 
whether the scope and categories of mechanisms offered to consumers for 
international transfers to be included are appropriate, or whether 
other alternatives should be used and why.
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the number is not rounded, and the second digit is rounded to 
reflect all the remaining digits. In other words, for a figure 
between 100 and 999, the provider would round to the nearest 10, 
e.g., for a figure of 812, the provider would report 810; for a 
figure of 816, the provider would report 820. For figures between 
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C. Depository Institution Trade Names

    Some insured depository institutions use names other than their 
legal title as reflected in their charter to identify certain of their 
physical branch offices or Internet Web sites. The reasons for using 
these ``trade names'' vary: (1) In the case of physical branch offices, 
this is often due to a merger and an interest in maintaining the 
presence of the acquired institution's well recognized name in the 
community or communities it served; (2) in the case of multiple Web 
sites, this is often due not only to merger activity, but also may be 
part of an institution's specific marketing efforts and an interest in 
targeting particular groups of potential depositors or borrowers. Even 
though there may be valid business reasons for using trade names, this 
practice can confuse customers as to the insured status of the 
institution as well as the legal name of the insured institution that 
holds their deposits. Customers, for example, could inadvertently 
exceed the deposit insurance limits if they do business with two 
different branches or Web sites that are, in fact, not separately 
insured, but rather are simply affiliated with the same insured 
depository institution. Furthermore, customers risk monetary losses if 
they deal with fraudulent Web sites using trade names that purport to 
be insured depository institutions because customers cannot confirm 
whether the Web sites are, in fact, affiliated with an insured 
institution via the FDIC's Institution Directory or BankFind systems.
    To address these concerns in relation to physical branch offices, 
the agencies issued an Interagency Statement on Branch Names in 
1998.\21\ The Statement describes measures an insured institution 
should take to guard against customer confusion about the identity of 
the institution or the extent of FDIC insurance coverage if the 
institution ``intends to use a different name for a branch or other 
facility'' or ``over a computer network such as the Internet.'' This 
guidance, however, did not require institutions to inform customers of 
their legal identity nor did it establish a formal notification 
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    The FDIC regularly receives inquiries from the public about whether 
a particular institution, as identified by the name on its physical 
facilities, in print or other traditional media advertisements, or on 
Internet Web sites, represents an insured depository institution. Since 
June 1999, institutions have reported the Uniform Resource Locator 
(URL) of their primary Internet Web site address in the Call Report. 
Nevertheless, the agencies have found that many institutions commonly 
have multiple Web sites and that Web sites operated by insured 
institutions often do not clearly state the institution's legal 
(chartered) name. Moreover, because insured institutions are not 
required to report the multiple trade names that they use, including 
Internet Web sites other than their primary Web site, the FDIC's 
publicly available databases that identify insured institutions do not 
include trade name data that links the trade names to a specific 
insured institution and its deposit insurance certificate number. As a 
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resource for depositors and the public concerning the insured status of 
a physical branch office or Internet Web site that uses a trade name 
rather than the legal name of the insured institution. Although the 
FDIC researches trade names and collects trade name information in 
response to inquiries from the public, this information is incomplete, 
lags behind the creation of new trade names, and depends on inquiries 
from the public to identify previously unknown trade names.
    To address the lack of complete and current information on 
depository institutions' use of trade names that differ from their 
legal title to identify physical branches and Internet Web sites, the 
agencies are proposing to supplement the reporting of each 
institution's primary Internet Web site address, which is currently 
reported in item 8 of Call Report Schedule RC-M, Memoranda. The 
agencies propose to add text fields to Schedule RC-M, item 8, in which 
an institution that uses one or more trade names other than its legal 
title to identify branch office names and Internet Web sites would 
report all trade names used by these physical locations and the URLs 
for all public-facing Web site addresses affiliated with the 
institution. For example, if an institution's legal title is ABC 
National Bank, but it operates one or more office locations under the 
trade name of ``Community Bank of XYZ'' (as identified by the signage 
displayed on the facility), the institution would report this trade 
name (and any other trade names the institution uses at other office 
locations) in revised item 8 of Schedule RC-M. Similarly, if an 
institution's legal title is DEF State Bank, but it operates an 
Internet Web site to solicit deposits or other business under the trade 
name of ``Your Safe and Sound Bank'' (where this trade name is more 
clearly and prominently displayed on the Web site than the 
institution's legal title, if the legal title is disclosed at all), the 
institution would report the URL for this Web site (and the URLs for 
any other Web sites used to solicit business under a trade name) in 
revised item 8 of Schedule RC-M. The agencies seek comment on the 
clarity of the circumstances in which institutions would report trade 
names in Schedule RC-M.

D. Additional Data From Large and Highly Complex Institutions for 
Deposit Insurance Assessment Purposes

    On October 9, 2012, the FDIC Board of Directors approved a final 
rule amending certain aspects of the methodology set forth in the 
FDIC's assessment regulations (12 CFR Part 327) for determining the 
deposit insurance assessment rates for large and highly complex 
institutions.\22\ This ``large bank pricing rule,'' originally adopted 
by the FDIC Board in February 2011,\23\ uses a scorecard method to 
determine a large or highly complex institution's assessment rate. One 
of the financial ratios used in the scorecard is the ratio of higher-
risk assets to Tier 1 capital and reserves. The FDIC's October 2012 
assessments final rule, which takes effect April 1, 2013, (1) revises 
the definitions of certain higher-risk assets in the February 2011 
rule, specifically leveraged loans, which are renamed ``higher-risk 
commercial and industrial (C&I) loans and securities,'' and subprime 
consumer loans, which are renamed ``higher-risk consumer loans''; (2) 
clarifies when an asset must be classified as higher risk; (3) 
clarifies the way securitizations are identified as higher risk; and 
(4) further defines terms that are used in the large bank pricing rule.
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    \22\ See 77 FR 66000, October 31, 2012. In general, large and 
highly complex institutions are insured depository institutions with 
$10 billion or more in total assets.
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    At present, large and highly complex institutions currently report 
the amount of their ```Subprime consumer loans' as defined for 
assessment purposes only in FDIC regulations'' and their ```Leveraged 
loans and securities' as defined for assessment purposes only in FDIC 
regulations'' in Memorandum items 8 and 9, respectively, of Call Report 
Schedule RC-O, Other Data for Deposit Insurance and FICO Assessments. 
The amounts to be reported in Memorandum items 8 and 9 also generally 
include securitizations where more than 50 percent of assets backing 
the securitization meet the criteria for subprime consumer loans or 
leveraged loans and securities, but exclude securitizations reported as 
trading assets on the Call Report balance sheet (Schedule RC). These 
two Memorandum items were added to Schedule RC-O as of the June 30, 
2011, report date. However, in recognition of concerns expressed by 
large and highly complex institutions about their ability to identify 
loans meeting the subprime and leveraged loan definitions in the FDIC's 
February 2011 assessments final rule, the agencies provided transition 
guidance for reporting subprime consumer and leveraged loans and 
securities in the Schedule RC-O instructions issued in June 2011. That 
transition guidance permitted large and highly complex institutions to 
use either their existing internal methodologies or definitions found 
in existing supervisory guidance to identify and report ``subprime 
consumer loans'' and ``leveraged loans'' originated or purchased prior 
to October 1, 2011, in lieu of using the definitions of these two 
higher-risk asset categories in the FDIC's February 2011 final 
assessments rule. The original transition date for identifying and 
reporting subprime and leveraged loans has since been extended, most 
recently to April 1, 2013.
    As stated in the agencies' final Paperwork Reduction Act Federal 
Register notice pertaining to the introduction of the Schedule RC-O 
reporting requirements for large and highly complex institutions:

the instructions for reporting subprime and leveraged loans and 
securities in the Call Report * * * specifically reference the 
definitions of these high-risk asset categories that are contained 
in the FDIC's assessment regulations (12 CFR Part 327) as amended by 
the FDIC's February 2011 final rule and then incorporate the text of 
these definitions from the final rule (as well as the previously 
mentioned transition guidance). Accordingly, if and when one or both 
of these two definitions--as used for assessment purposes--are 
revised through FDIC rulemaking, the definitions of these asset 
categories in the agencies' regulatory reporting instructions will 
be revised in the same manner to maintain conformity with the 
assessment regulations.\24\
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    \24\ 76 FR 77321, December 12, 2011.

Now that the FDIC has amended the definitions of subprime and leveraged 
loans and securities in its October 2012 assessments final rule, and 
has renamed these higher-risk asset categories, the agencies will, 
consistent with the text quoted above, make corresponding changes to 
Memorandum items 8 and 9 of Schedule RC-O. Thus, Memorandum item 8 will 
be recaptioned ```Higher-risk consumer loans' as defined for assessment 
purposes only in FDIC regulations'' and Memorandum item 9 will be 
recaptioned ```Higher-risk commercial and industrial loans and 
securities' as defined for assessment purposes only in FDIC 
regulations.'' The revised instructions for these two Schedule RC-O 
Memorandum items will incorporate the revised definitions of these 
higher-risk asset categories contained in the FDIC's October 2012 
assessments final rule, including the clarified definitions of higher-
risk securitizations.\25\ These revisions will

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April 1, 2013, effective date of the FDIC's October 2012 assessments 
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    \25\ The FDIC's October 2012 assessments final rule defines 
``higher-risk consumer loans,'' ``higher-risk commercial and 
industrial loans,'' and ``higher-risk securitizations'' in Sections 
I.A.3, I.A.2, and I.A.5, respectively, of Appendix C to Subpart A of 
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    As defined in the October 2012 assessments final rule, a ``higher-
risk consumer loan'' is a consumer loan where, as of origination (or, 
if the loan has been refinanced, as of refinance), the probability of 
default (PD) within two years (the two-year PD) is greater than 20 
percent,\26\ excluding, however, those consumer loans that meet the 
definition of a nontraditional 1-4 family residential mortgage 
loan.\27\ Integral to its decision to adopt this definition in the 
October 2012 assessments final rule was the FDIC's stated intent to 
collect the outstanding balance of consumer loans, by two-year PD and 
product type, in the Call Report as a means to determine whether the 20 
percent threshold for identifying ``higher-risk consumer loans'' should 
be changed. More specifically, the agencies are proposing that large 
and highly complex institutions would report in a tabular format the 
outstanding amount of all consumer loans, including those with a PD 
below the high-risk threshold, stratified by the 10 consumer loan 
product types and 12 two-year PD bands. In addition, for each product 
type, institutions would report the amount of unscorable loans, as 
defined in the October 2012 assessments final rule, and indicate 
whether the PDs were derived using scores and default rate mappings 
provided by a third-party vendor or an internal approach. The 10 
proposed consumer loan product types are:
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    \26\ The FDIC's October 2012 assessments final rules sets forth 
the ``General Requirements for PD Estimation'' in Section I.A.3 of 
Appendix C to Subpart A of Part 327 of the FDIC's regulations.
    \27\ The FDIC's October 2012 assessments final rule defines 
``nontraditional 1-4 family residential mortgage loans'' in Section 
I.A.4 of Appendix C to Subpart A of Part 327 of the FDIC's 
regulations. ```Nontraditional 1-4 family residential mortgage 
loans' as defined for assessment purposes only in FDIC regulations'' 
are reported in Schedule RC-O, Memorandum item 7, and includes 
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    (1) ``Nontraditional 1-4 family residential mortgage loans'' 
included in Schedule RC-C, part I, item 1.c.(2)(a) and (b);
    (2) ``Closed-end loans secured by first liens on 1-4 family 
residential properties'' as defined for Call Report Schedule RC-C, part 
I, item 1.c.(2)(a), excluding first liens reported as nontraditional 1-
4 family residential mortgage loans;
    (3) ``Closed-end loans secured by junior liens on 1-4 family 
residential properties'' as defined for Schedule RC-C, part I, item 
1.c.(2)(b), excluding junior liens reported as nontraditional 1-4 
family residential mortgage loans;
    (4) ``Revolving, open-end loans secured by first liens on 1-4 
family residential properties and extended under lines of credit'' 
included in Schedule RC-C, part I, item 1.c.(1);
    (5) ``Revolving, open-end loans secured by junior liens on 1-4 
family residential properties and extended under lines of credit'' 
included in Schedule RC-C, part I, item 1.c.(1);
    (6) ``Credit cards'' as defined for Schedule RC-C, part I, item 
6.a;
    (7) ``Automobile loans'' as defined for Schedule RC-C, part I, item 
6.c;
    (8) ``Student loans'' included in Schedule RC-C, part I, item 6.d;
    (9) ``Other consumer loans (including single payment and 
installment) and revolving credit plans other than credit cards'' 
included in Schedule RC-C, part I, items 6.b and 6.d, but excluding 
student loans; and
    (10) ``Consumer leases,'' as defined for Schedule RC-C, part I, 
item 10.a.
    The 12 proposed two-year PD bands for consumer loans are: (1) less 
than or equal to 1 percent; (2) 1.01 to 4 percent; (3) 4.01 to 7 
percent; (4) 7.01 to 10 percent; (5) 10.01 to 14 percent; (6) 14.01 to 
16 percent; (7) 16.01 to 18 percent; (8) 18.01 to 20 percent; (9) 20.01 
to 22 percent; (10) 22.01 to 26 percent; (11) 26.01 to 30 percent; and 
(12) greater than 30 percent.
    At present, the amounts that large and highly complex institutions 
report for ``nontraditional 1-4 family residential mortgage loans,'' 
``subprime consumer loans,'' and ``leveraged loans and securities'' in 
Memorandum items 7, 8, and 9 of Schedule RC-O are accorded confidential 
treatment and not made available to the public on an individual 
institution basis because they are regarded as examination information. 
In this regard, until data on these higher-risk assets began to be 
collected directly in the Call Report, the FDIC looked to the 
examination processes at large and highly complex institutions as the 
means for gathering these data and, as a consequence, they have been 
treated as confidential examination information. Similarly, the 
proposed addition to Schedule RC-O of tabular data on consumer loans, 
by two-year PD and product type, represents a further extension of the 
collection of confidential examination information, which also will not 
be made available to the public on an individual institution basis.
    In addition, over the past six quarters as the FDIC has worked with 
the data collected in Schedule RC-O and elsewhere in the Call Report 
that serve as inputs to the growth adjusted portfolio concentration 
measure, the higher-risk asset concentration measure, and the loss 
severity measure used in the scorecard calculations under the large 
bank pricing rule, certain data gaps have been identified in the data 
needed to perform these calculations in the manner intended under this 
rule. Therefore, the agencies are proposing to add a number of new 
Memorandum items to Schedule RC-O and revise several existing 
Memorandum items to eliminate these data gaps. These proposed changes 
to Schedule RC-O would apply only to large and highly complex 
institutions.
    On the FFIEC 031 report form, which is applicable to institutions 
with foreign offices, Schedule RC-C, part I, item 1, ``Loans secured by 
real estate,'' does not capture a breakdown of these loans for the 
consolidated institution by the type of loan and collateral. Such a 
breakdown is collected for ``Loans secured by real estate'' in domestic 
offices. As a consequence, because ``Loans secured by real estate'' in 
foreign offices are not reported by type of loan and collateral in 
Schedule RC-C, part I, the loss severity measure in the large bank 
pricing rule treats all foreign office real estate loans as ``Other 
loans'' and assigning a higher loss rate to these ``Other loans'' than 
would otherwise be assigned to them based on their actual type of loan 
and collateral. The absence of these details on foreign office real 
estate loans also affects the growth adjusted portfolio concentration 
measure and the higher-risk asset concentration ratio. Similarly, 
within Schedule RC-O on the FFIEC 031 report, existing Memorandum items 
10.a and 10.b capture data relating to ``Commitments to fund 
construction, land development, and other land loans secured by real 
estate in domestic offices'' while Memorandum items 13.a through 13.d 
collect data on the portion of certain categories of funded loans 
secured by real estate in domestic offices that are guaranteed or 
insured by the U.S. government. Because these Memorandum items also 
overlook the corresponding unfunded loan commitments and funded loans 
in foreign offices, the scorecard measures that use these inputs lack 
the information necessary to accurately calculate the affected ratios. 
The absence of detailed data on real estate loans in foreign offices 
affects a minority of the approximately 110 large and highly complex 
institutions.
    To remedy this deficiency in the real estate loan data reported by 
large and highly complex institutions with foreign offices, the 
agencies are proposing to add new Memorandum items to the

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FFIEC 031 version of the Call Report effective June 30, 2013, that 
would provide for the reporting of a breakdown of the consolidated 
institution's ``Loans secured by real estate'' into the same nine types 
of loans and collateral as those reported for domestic offices only in 
Schedule RC-C, part I, items 1.a.(1) through 1.e.(2). Additionally, the 
scope of Memorandum items 10.a, 10.b, and 13.a through 13.d in Schedule 
RC-O would be revised to cover the specified unfunded commitments and 
funded loans in both domestic and foreign offices (i.e., for the 
consolidated bank).
    The definitions of the individual asset classes that make up the 
growth adjusted portfolio concentration measure and the higher-risk 
asset concentration measure for large and highly complex institutions 
exclude the maximum amounts recoverable from the U.S. government under 
guarantee or insurance provisions, including FDIC loss-sharing 
agreements. In Memorandum items 13.a through 13.g of Schedule RC-O, 
institutions report for several categories of funded loans the portion 
of these loans guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government, but they 
do not include the amount protected by FDIC loss-sharing agreements 
and, thus, do not precisely mirror the definitions of the individual 
measures that make up the higher-risk asset concentration measure for 
large and highly complex institutions. The balance sheet amounts of 
loans covered by loss-sharing agreements are currently reported in 
items 13.a.(1) through 13.a.(5) of Schedule RC-M, Memoranda. However, 
these items disclose only the total amount of these loans and not the 
portion of the loans that is protected by loss-sharing agreements. 
Consequently, for scorecard calculation purposes, the FDIC has been 
assuming that 80 percent of the loan amounts reported in Schedule RC-M 
are covered by loss-sharing agreements since most loss-sharing 
agreements cover 80 percent of the loan amounts. However, the actual 
percentage of loss-share coverage for some loss-share agreements 
differs. Accordingly, the agencies are proposing to revise existing 
Memorandum items 13.a through 13.g of Schedule RC-O so that 
institutions include, rather than exclude, the portion of specified 
loan categories covered by FDIC loss-sharing agreements.\28\
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    \28\ Memorandum item 13.a would continue to be completed by 
large and highly complex institutions, while Memorandum items 13.b 
through 13.g would continue to be completed by large institutions 
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    In addition, the growth adjusted portfolio concentration measure, 
as defined in the large bank pricing rule, includes non-agency 
residential mortgage-backed securities (reported in items 4.a.(3) and 
4.b.(3), columns A and D, of Schedule RC-B, Securities), excluding the 
portion guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government (e.g., under FDIC 
loss-sharing agreements). However, the amount of the U.S. government-
guaranteed or -insured portion of such securities is not currently 
collected in the Call Report. To eliminate this data deficiency, the 
agencies propose to add a new Memorandum item 13.h to Schedule RC-O to 
collect this missing information on non-agency residential mortgage-
backed securities from large institutions only. These proposed 
revisions to Memorandum item 13 would take effect June 30, 2013.

E. Total Liabilities of an Institution's Parent Depository Institution 
Holding Company That Is Not a Bank or Savings and Loan Holding Company

    Section 622 of the Dodd-Frank Act establishes a financial sector 
concentration limit (``Concentration Limit'') that generally prohibits 
a financial company from merging or consolidating with, acquiring all 
or substantially all of the assets of, or otherwise acquiring control 
of, another company if the resulting company's consolidated liabilities 
would exceed 10 percent of the aggregate consolidated liabilities of 
all financial companies. The Concentration Limit was adopted as a new 
section 14 to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, to be 
codified at 12 U.S.C. 1852.
    The Concentration Limit applies to a ``financial company,'' which 
is defined to include any company that controls an insured depository 
institution--including a commercial firm that controls an industrial 
loan company or a limited-purpose credit card bank--as well as an 
insured depository institution and a nonbank financial company 
supervised by the Board.\29\ These firms are subject to the 
Concentration Limit, and their liabilities are included in the 
denominator of the Concentration Limit for purposes of determining 
whether other financial companies are in compliance with the limit.
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    \29\ A parent holding company has control over a depository 
institution if the company (A) the company directly or indirectly or 
acting through one or more other persons owns, controls, or has 
power to vote 25 per centum or more of any class of voting 
securities of the depository institution; (B) the company controls 
in any manner the election of a majority of the directors or 
trustees of the depository institution; or (C) the Board determines, 
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that the company directly 
or indirectly exercises a controlling influence over the management 
or policies of the depository institution.
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    ``Liabilities'' for purposes of the Concentration Limit are defined 
differently for financial companies domiciled in the United States than 
for financial companies domiciled abroad. For U.S.-domiciled financial 
companies, ``liabilities'' include a firm's total consolidated 
liabilities on a worldwide basis. For financial companies domiciled 
abroad, ``liabilities'' include the liabilities of the firm's U.S. 
operations.
    The Financial Stability Oversight Council (``Council'') is required 
to make recommendations regarding any modifications to the 
concentration limit that the Council determines would more effectively 
implement Section 622. The Council recommended that, in measuring the 
Concentration Limit, the liabilities of a financial company (that is 
not subject to consolidated risk-based capital rules substantially 
similar to those applicable to bank holding companies) should be 
calculated pursuant to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles 
(GAAP) or other appropriate accounting standards applicable to such 
company. The Council also recommended that the Board calculate 
aggregate financial sector liabilities using a two-year rolling average 
and publicly report a final calculation of the aggregate consolidated 
liabilities of all financial companies as of the end of the preceding 
calendar year.\30\
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    At present, depository institution holding companies that are not 
bank holding companies or savings and loan holding companies do not 
report consolidated financial information to the agencies. Because this 
information is necessary to implement the Concentration Limit, the 
agencies propose to add a new item 17 to Call Report Schedule RC-M, 
Memoranda, in which a subsidiary depository institution of a depository 
institution holding company that is not a bank holding company or 
savings and loan holding company would be required to report 
information on the liabilities of the parent depository institution 
holding company, as communicated by the holding company to the 
institution. This new item would not be applicable to any other 
depository institutions. Because the Board is required to report a 
final calculation as of the end of each calendar year, this proposed 
new Schedule RC-M item would be

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completed for only the December report beginning December 31, 2013.
    Specifically, with respect to a subsidiary depository institution 
of a depository institution holding company domiciled in the United 
States, the institution would be required to report total consolidated 
liabilities of the parent depository institution holding company under 
U.S. GAAP as of the December 31 Call Report date, as communicated to 
the institution by the depository institution holding company. With 
respect to a subsidiary institution of a depository institution holding 
company domiciled in a country other than the United States, the 
institution would be required to report the total consolidated 
liabilities of the combined U.S. operations of the depository 
institution holding company as of the December 31 Call Report date, as 
communicated to the institution by the parent. ``Total consolidated 
liabilities of the combined U.S. operations of the depository 
institution holding company'' would mean the sum of the total 
consolidated liabilities of each top-tier U.S. subsidiary of the 
depository institution holding company, as determined under U.S. GAAP. 
A subsidiary depository institution would be permitted, but not 
required, to reduce ``total consolidated liabilities of the combined 
U.S. operations of the depository institution holding company'' by 
amounts corresponding to balances and transactions between U.S. 
subsidiaries of the depository institution holding company to the 
extent such items would not already be eliminated in consolidation.
    The agencies recognize that it is not customary to use the Call 
Report as the vehicle for collecting data pertaining to a company other 
than the reporting depository institution, including entities the 
institution consolidates. Nevertheless, the agencies view the Call 
Report as a more efficient conduit for collecting a single annual data 
item for the total consolidated liabilities of a reporting 
institution's parent depository institution holding company that is not 
a bank or savings and loan holding company than the alternative of 
having the Board initiate a new information collection applicable to 
the limited number of depository institution holding companies that are 
not bank or savings and loan holding companies for the sole purpose of 
annually collecting this single data item.
    The agencies also acknowledge that, when filing a Call Report, the 
reporting institution's chief financial officer (or equivalent) must 
attest that the report has been prepared in conformance with the Call 
Report instructions and is true and correct to the best of his or her 
knowledge and belief. A specified number of the reporting institution's 
directors must make a similar attestation. Because a depository 
institution controlled by a depository institution holding company that 
is not a bank or savings and loan holding company would have to obtain 
the amount of its parent depository institution holding company's total 
consolidated liabilities from the parent in order to report this amount 
in the Call Report, the agencies would expect an institution to use its 
best efforts to obtain this information from its parent depository 
institution holding company and would accept a reasonable estimate of 
the parent's total consolidated liabilities. In light of the Call 
Report attestation requirement described above, the agencies propose to 
exclude from the scope of the attestations for the institution's chief 
financial officer (or equivalent) and directors the amount of the 
parent holding company's total consolidated liabilities reported in 
Schedule RC-M, item 17. However, for the limited number of depository 
institutions to which item 17 will be applicable, this item would be 
accompanied by an attestation to be signed by the depository 
institution's chief financial officer (or equivalent) stating that item 
17 has been prepared in conformance with the Call Report instructions. 
The instructions for proposed Memorandum item 17 would provide that a 
depository institution could rely on a reasonable estimate of the total 
consolidated liabilities of its parent depository institution holding 
company obtained on a best efforts basis. The agencies request comment 
on whether this approach addresses potential attestation concerns that 
may arise when an insured depository institution must report the total 
consolidated liabilities of its parent depository institution holding 
company that is not a bank or savings and loan holding company in the 
institution's Call Report.

F. Revising the Scope of Schedule RI-A, Item 11

    The instructions for item 11, ``Other transactions with parent 
holding company,'' in Schedule RI-A, Changes in Bank Equity Capital, 
currently advise institutions to report the net aggregate amount of 
transactions with the institution's parent holding company that affect 
equity capital directly, other than those transactions required to be 
reported in other items of Schedule RI-A (e.g., cash dividends, sales 
and retirements of capital stock, and treasury stock transactions). The 
instructions for item 11 identify two transactions to be reported in 
this item: capital contributions other than those for which stock has 
been issued to the parent holding company and dividends to the holding 
company in the form of property rather than cash.
    Although the scope of Schedule RI-A, item 11, is limited to 
transactions with an institution's parent holding company, the two 
types of transactions identified in the instructions for this item can 
be conducted with an institution's stockholders other than a parent 
holding company. In this situation, neither the instructions for item 
11 nor the instructions for any of the other items in Schedule RI-A 
explains where these capital transactions with stockholders other than 
a parent holding company should be reported within the schedule.
    In addition, an institution may from time to time reduce its 
contributed capital (i.e., surplus) without retiring any of its stock 
through a return-of-capital transaction in which cash is distributed to 
the institution's owners, typically its parent holding company. Such a 
return-of-capital transaction is separate and distinct from a dividend 
payment, which reduces retained earnings and is reported in either item 
8 or 9 of Schedule RI-A. At present, the instructions for Schedule RI-A 
do not explicitly identify the item within the schedule in which 
return-of-capital transactions should be reported. In this regard, 
Schedule RI-A, item 5, ``Sale, conversion, acquisition, or retirement 
of capital stock, net (excluding treasury stock transactions),'' 
includes the redemption or retirement of perpetual preferred stock or 
common stock (including stock owned by a parent holding company), but 
the instructions for this item are silent regarding return-of-capital 
transactions.
    Accordingly, the agencies are proposing to revise the scope of 
Schedule RI-A, item 11, to include capital contributions received from 
stockholders other than an institution's parent holding company when 
stock is not issued, property dividends involving stockholders other 
than a parent holding company, and return-of-capital transactions with 
all stockholders, including a parent holding company. In addition to 
revising the instructions for item 11, the caption for this item also 
would be revised to read ``Other transactions with stockholders 
(including a parent holding company).'' These proposed changes would 
take effect June 30, 2013.

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III. Other Matters

    On February 17, 2012, the agencies announced that they were 
continuing to evaluate a new proposed Call Report Schedule RC-U, Loan 
Origination Activity (in Domestic Offices), in light of the comments 
received.\31\ The FFIEC and the agencies have completed their 
evaluation of Schedule RC-U and have determined not to pursue 
implementation of this proposed Call Report schedule.\32\
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    \31\ 77 FR 9727.
    \32\ Similarly, the FFIEC and the agencies have completed their 
evaluation of proposed Schedule U, Loan Origination Activity, on the 
Report of Assets and Liabilities of U.S. Branches and Agencies of 
Foreign Banks (FFIEC 002; OMB No. 7100-0032) and have determined not 
to pursue implementation of this proposed schedule on the FFIEC 002 
report. See 77 FR 14367, March 9, 2012.
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    Memorandum items 5.a and 5.b of Call Report Schedule RC-O collect 
data on the amount and number of noninterest-bearing transaction 
accounts of more than $250,000. In the 2010 initial and final PRA 
notices describing this collection, the agencies stated that this 
collection would cease after December 31, 2012, unless Congress 
extended a law allowing for unlimited deposit insurance on these 
accounts beyond that date. Congress did not extend that law, and the 
temporary unlimited deposit insurance for such accounts ended on 
December 31, 2012. However, there is considerable interest across the 
agencies in monitoring the behavior of these deposit accounts following 
the change in insurance coverage. Specifically, the agencies are 
interested in tracking the movement of these funds and accounts among 
individual insured institutions and within the depository institution 
system as a whole. Accordingly, the agencies will continue to collect 
these Memorandum items in the March 31, 2013, Call Report and in future 
reports.\33\ The agencies will review this information and reconsider 
the collection at such time as the number of accounts and amount of 
deposits stabilizes. The agencies request comment on whether to 
continue collecting this information, absent the extension of the law 
providing deposit insurance for these accounts.
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    \33\ The agencies also will continue to collect the 
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Request for Comment

    Public comment is requested on all aspects of this joint notice. 
Comments are invited on:
    (a) Whether the proposed revisions to the collections of 
information that are the subject of this notice are necessary for the 
proper performance of the agencies' functions, including whether the 
information has practical utility;
    (b) The accuracy of the agencies' estimates of the burden of the 
information collections as they are proposed to be revised, including 
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected;
    (d) Ways to minimize the burden of information collections on 
respondents, including through the use of automated collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology; and
    (e) Estimates of capital or start up costs and costs of operation, 
maintenance, and purchase of services to provide information.
    Comments submitted in response to this joint notice will be shared 
among the agencies. All comments will become a matter of public record.

    Dated: February 4, 2013.
Michele Meyer,
Assistant Director, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division, 
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, February 14, 
2013.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Secretary of the Board.
    Dated at Washington, DC, this 4th day of February 2013.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-04035 Filed 2-20-13; 8:45 am]
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