Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation December 4, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This proposal would amend existing FDIC ethics regulations involving extensions of credit, ownership of stock, and definitions. This proposal would implement the Preserving Independence of Financial Institution Examinations Act of 2003, which amended sections 212 and 213 of title 18 of the United States Code. These sections continue generally to impose criminal penalties on examiners borrowing from banks they have examined, and financial institutions extending a loan to anyone who examines or has authority to examine that institution. The statutory amendment, however, decriminalizes extensions of credit to examiners for credit cards and for primary residential home loans from institutions that they examine or have authority to examine if these loans are made on the same terms and conditions as are available to other cardholders and borrowers and satisfy other criteria contained in the statute as amended. Additionally, the proposed regulation would clarify and make minor revisions to definitions and restrictions for FDIC employees' acquisition, ownership, or control of securities of FDIC-insured depository institutions and certain holding companies.