[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 53 (Monday, March 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11005-11008]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-6366]



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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission to OMB Under 
Delegated Authority
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

ACTION: Approval by the Board of Governors of bank holding company 
reporting requirements.

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BACKGROUND: Notice is hereby given of the final approval of proposed 
information collections by the Board of Governors of the Federal 
Reserve System (Board) under OMB delegated authority, as per 5 CFR 
1320.16 (OMB Regulations on Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the 
Public). The Federal Reserve may not conduct or sponsor, and the 
respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection 
that has been extended, revised, or implemented on or after October 1, 
1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert T. Maahs, Supervisory Financial 
Analyst (202/872-4935) or Tina Robertson, Supervisory Financial Analyst 
(202/452-2949) for information concerning the specific bank holding 
company reporting requirements. The following may also be contacted 
regarding the information collection:
    1. Mary M. McLaughlin, Federal Reserve Board Clearance Officer 
(202/452-3829), Division of Research and Statistics, Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 20551. Telecommunications 
Device for the Deaf (TDD) users may contact Dorothea Thompson (202/452-
3544), Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Washington, DC 
20551.
    2. Milo Sunderahauf, OMB Desk Officer, (202/395-7340), Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
New Executive Office Building, Room 3208, Washington, DC 20503.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

General Information and Public Comment

    On January 3, 1996, the Board issued for public comment proposed 
revisions to certain bank holding company reports. The comment period 
expired on March 3, 1996. Four comment letters were received on the 
proposed revisions in the bank holding company reporting requirements. 
Additional verbal comments were received from three holding companies. 
Under the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956, as amended, the Board is 
responsible for the supervision and regulation of all bank holding 
companies. The FR Y-9 and FR Y-11 series of reports historically have 
been, and continue to be, the primary source of financial information 
on bank holding companies and their nonbanking activities between on-
site inspections. Financial information, as well as ratios developed 
from the Y series reports, are used to detect emerging financial 
problems, to review performance for pre-inspection analysis, to 
evaluate bank holding company mergers and acquisitions, and to analyze 
a holding company's overall financial condition and performance as part 
of the Federal Reserve System's overall analytical effort.
    Final approval under OMB delegated authority the revision of the 
following reports:

    1. Report title: Consolidated Financial Statements for Bank Holding 
Companies.

    Agency form number: FR Y-9C.

    OMB control number: 7100-0128.

    Frequency: Quarterly.

    Reporters: Bank holding companies.

    Annual reporting hours: 183,927.

    Estimated average hours per response: Range from 5 to 1,250 hours.

    Number of respondents: 1,354.

    Small businesses are affected.

    General description of report: The information collection is 
mandatory [12 U.S.C. 1844(b) and (c)] and [12 CFR 225.5(b)]. 
Confidential treatment is not routinely given to the data in these 
reports. However, confidential treatment for the reporting information, 
in whole or in part, can be requested in accordance with the 
instructions to the form.

    Data reported on the FR Y-9C, Schedule HC-H, Column A, requiring 
information on ``assets past due 30 through 89 days and still 
accruing'' and memoranda item 2 are confidential pursuant to Section 
(b)(8) of the Freedom of Information Act [5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8)].
    The FR Y-9C consolidated financial statements are currently filed 
by top-tier bank holding companies with total consolidated assets of 
$150 million or more and by lower-tier bank holding companies that have 
total consolidated assets of $1 billion or more. In addition, all 
multibank bank holding companies with debt outstanding to the general 
public or engaged in certain nonbank activities, regardless of size, 
must file the FR Y-9C. The following bank holding companies are exempt 
from filing the FR Y-9C, unless the Board specifically requires an 
exempt company to file the report: bank holding companies that are 
subsidiaries of another bank holding company and have total 
consolidated assets of less than $1 billion; bank holding companies 
that have been granted a hardship exemption by the Board under section 
4(d) of the Bank Holding Company Act; and foreign banking organizations 
as defined by section 211.23(b) of Regulation K.
    The report includes a balance sheet, income statement, and 
statement of changes in equity capital with supporting schedules 
providing information on securities, loans, risk-based capital, 
deposits, interest sensitivity, average balances, off-balance sheet 
activities, past due loans, and loan charge-offs and recoveries.
    The Board has approved the following revisions to the FR Y-9C that 
are effective with the March 31, 1996 reporting date. Most of the 
proposed new items are needed to maintain consistency with comparable 
items recently proposed or previously added to the commercial bank 
Reports of Condition and Income (Call Report). In addition, 
clarifications have been made to the instructions.
    In response to public comment, the Board has also adopted 
suggestions provided by a commenter representing a number of large bank 
holding companies and supported by verbal comments received from other 
bank holding companies. The comment letter stated in part:

    We support the Agencies' proposal that the Call Report include 
line items for Tier 1 Capital, Tier 2 Capital, total risk-based 
capital, total risk-weighted assets, the excess amount of allowance 
for loan and lease losses (if any), and average total assets. Given 
the Agencies' emphasis on conforming Call Report and FR Y-9C 
requirements where appropriate, we would also encourage the

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Agencies to incorporate the disclosure of this information into the FR 
Y-9C.

    The Board has approved the addition of five new items to collect 
data on (1) Tier 1 capital; (2) Total risk-based capital; (3) Risk-
weighted assets; and (4) Average total assets. With respect to the 
fifth item, the Board approved the collection of data on total risk-
weighted assets for those bank holding companies with Section 20 
affiliates.
    Further, the Board has eliminated nine additional items on Schedule 
HC-IC ``Additional Detail on Capital Components.'' The amounts reported 
in these items have been small and the nine items have been combined 
into one. This item is ``Total perpetual debt, undedicated portions of 
mandatory convertible securities and long-term preferred stock with an 
original maturity of 20 years or more that qualify for supplementary 
capital (after discounting).'' Another item, ``Unsecured long-term debt 
issued prior to March 12, 1988, that qualified as secondary capital 
when issued,'' has been deleted.
    As issued for public comment, the Board proposed to modify Schedule 
HC-G, ``Memoranda'' to add two line items to report: (a) the amount of 
excess servicing fees receivable (other than excess residential 
mortgage servicing fees receivable) and (b) the amount of excess 
servicing fees receivable that represent a credit enhancement for 
securitized receivables. With asset-backed securitizations continuing 
to develop in the financial services industry, the Board proposed to 
monitor the growth and risk exposures of this activity. In addition, 
excess servicing fees that represent credit enhancements for 
securitized receivables could affect the risk-based capital 
calculations, because such credit enhancements may be, in substance, 
recourse obligations. Three comment letters addressed the addition of 
these two items. All three letters expressed concern about the 
inclusion of these items at this time. The comments indicated that the 
industry had not had sufficient time to fully analyze the implications 
of the treatment of excess servicing rights on existing accounting 
policy and on capital ratios. As a result of the comments, the Board 
has decided to defer implementation of these items.
    The other revisions to the reports, as issued for public comment, 
and approved are described as follows:

A. Revisions Related to Consistent Reporting With the Call Report

Balance Sheet
    (1) Revise the reporting requirements for item 17, ``Other borrowed 
money with original maturity of one year or less,'' and item 18, 
``Other borrowed money with original maturity of more than one year,'' 
to collect information based on remaining maturity instead of original 
maturity as currently reported. This change in reporting also requires 
a revision to line item 5 of Schedule HC-D, ``Interest Sensitivity,'' 
to exclude the portion of long-term debt reported in Schedule HC, item 
18. Such reporting is no longer applicable because of the revisions to 
reporting ``other borrowed money.''
Schedule HC-B, Part I, Loans and Lease Financing Receivables
    (1) Add a line item to report the amount of bankers acceptances of 
other banks that are included in loans to depository institutions.
    (2) Add a memorandum item to report the amount of commercial paper 
included in loans.
Schedule HC-C, Deposit Liabilities in Domestic Offices
    (1) Add two memorandum items to report: (a) brokered deposits less 
than $100,000 with a remaining maturity of one year or less, and (b) 
brokered deposits less than $100,000 with a remaining maturity of more 
than one year.
    (2) Add a memorandum item to report the amount of time deposits 
greater than $100,000 with a remaining maturity of one year or less.
    (3) Add a memorandum item to report the amount of foreign office 
time deposits with a remaining maturity of one year or less.
Schedule HC-F, Off-Balance-Sheet Items
    (1) Add two line items to report the outstanding amount of small 
business obligations sold with recourse and the amount of recourse 
retained.
Schedule HI, Income Statement
    (1) Combine the portion of item 5(c), ``Trading gains (losses) and 
fees from foreign exchange'' with item 5(d), ``Other gains (losses) and 
fees from trading assets and liabilities,'' into one line item and 
change the caption to ``Trading revenue.'' Also, memoranda items 9a 
through 9d should equal the ``Trading revenue'' item.
    (2) Add a line item to report ``Other foreign transaction gains 
(losses),'' which is currently included in line 5(c).
    (3) Delete memorandum item 3, ``estimated foreign tax credits 
(included in applicable income taxes, item 9 and 12 ).''
Schedule HI-B, Charge-offs and Recoveries and Changes in Allowance for 
Loan and Lease Losses
    (1) Add a line item to report the amount of credit losses on off-
balance-sheet derivative contracts.

B. Other FR Y-9C Revisions

Schedule HC-A, Securities
    (1) Move the footnote disclosure on page 21, ``Net unrealized 
losses on equity securities with readily determinable fair values 
reported in Schedule HC-A, items 4.b and 5.b (net of tax effect),'' 
into the body of Schedule HC-A.
Schedule HC-I, Risk-Based Capital
    (1) Combine line items 10 and 11 on Schedule HC-I, Part II, into 
one line item and change the caption to ``Credit equivalent amount of 
off-balance-sheet derivative contracts'' (an identical caption change 
will occur on Schedule HC-J, Part II, line 6).
    (2) Delete memorandum item 6(a) of Part I, discounted value of 
purchased mortgage servicing rights.
    2. Report title: Parent Company Only Financial Statements for Large 
Bank Holding Companies.
    Agency form number: FR Y-9LP.
    OMB control number: 7100-0128.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Reporters: Bank holding companies.
    Annual reporting hours: 29,562.
    Estimated average hours per response: Range from 2.0 to 13.5 hours.
    Number of respondents: 1,646.
    Small businesses are affected.
    General description of report: The information collection is 
mandatory [12 U.S.C. 1844 (b) and (c)] and [12 CFR 225.5(b)]. 
Confidential treatment is not routinely given to the information in 
these reports. However, confidential treatment for the report 
information, in whole or in part, can be requested in accordance with 
the instructions to the form.
    The FR Y-9LP includes standardized financial statements filed 
quarterly on a parent company only basis from each bank holding company 
that files the FR Y-9C. In addition, for tiered bank holding companies, 
a separate FR Y-9LP must be filed for each lower tier bank holding 
company if the top tier bank holding company files the FR Y-9C. The 
following bank holding companies are exempt from filing the FR Y-9LP, 
unless the Board specifically requires an exempt company to file the

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report: bank holding companies that have been granted a hardship 
exemption by the Board under section 4(d) of the Bank Holding Company 
Act; and foreign banking organizations as defined by section 211.23(b) 
of Regulation K. The Board has adopted the following revisions to the 
FR Y-9LP. The revisions are needed to maintain consistency with 
comparable items on the FR Y-9C, and are effective with the March 31, 
1996 reporting date.
Schedule PC, Parent Company Only Balance Sheet
    Revise the reporting requirements for line item 13, ``Borrowings 
with an original maturity of one year or less,'' and line item 14, 
``Other borrowed funds with an original maturity of greater than one 
year,'' to collect information based on remaining maturity instead of 
original maturity as currently reported.
Schedule PC-B, Memoranda
    Revise the reporting requirements of line item 2, ``Amount of 
borrowings included in Schedule PC, items 14 through 16 and item 18 
that is scheduled to mature with one year (exclude short-term debt),'' 
to exclude line item 14 because line item 14 of Schedule PC will be 
based on remaining maturity and will no longer be applicable to this 
line item.
    3. Report title: Quarterly Financial Statements of Nonbank 
Subsidiaries of Bank Holding Companies.
    Agency form number: FR Y-11Q.
    OMB control number: 7100-0244.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Reporters: Bank holding companies.
    Annual reporting hours: 6,696.
    Estimated average hours per response: Range from 3.0 to 8.0 hours.
    Number of respondents: 270.
    Small businesses are affected.
    General description of report: The information collection is 
mandatory [12 U.S.C. 1844 (b) and (c)] and [12 CFR 225.5(b)]. 
Confidential treatment is not routinely given to most of the data in 
these reports. However, confidential treatment for the report 
information, in whole or in part, can be requested in accordance with 
the instructions to the form. FR Y-11Q, memorandum item 7.a ``loans and 
leases past due 30 through 89 days'' and FR Y-11Q, memorandum item 7.d, 
``loans and leases restructured and included in past due and nonaccrual 
loans'' are confidential pursuant to Section (b)(8) of the Freedom of 
Information Act [5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8)].
    The FR Y-11Q is filed quarterly by the top tier bank holding 
companies for each nonbank subsidiary of a bank holding company with 
total consolidated assets of $150 million or more in which the nonbank 
subsidiary has total assets of 5 percent or more of the top-tier bank 
holding company's consolidated Tier 1 capital, or where the nonbank 
subsidiary's total operating revenue equals 5 percent or more of the 
top-tier bank holding company's consolidated total operating revenue. 
The report consists of a balance sheet, income statement, off-balance-
sheet items, information on changes in equity capital, and a memoranda 
section.
    The Board has adopted the following revisions to the FR Y-11Q to be 
effective with the March 31, 1996 reporting date:
Balance Sheet
    (1) Delete line items 11 and 18, ``Balances with nonrelated 
institutions.''
    (2) Revise the reporting requirements of line item 15, ``Borrowing 
with original maturity of one year or less (including federal funds 
purchased),'' and line item 16, ``Borrowing with an original maturity 
of more than one year (including subordinated debt),'' to collect 
information based on remaining maturity instead of original maturity as 
currently reported.
    (3) Delete memorandum item 13, ``Borrowings scheduled to mature in 
less than one year.''
Income Statement
    Add a line item to report the amount of equity in the undistributed 
income (losses) of subsidiaries.
    4. Report title: Annual Financial Statements of Nonbank 
Subsidiaries.
    Agency form number: FR Y-11I.
    OMB control number: 7100-0244.
    Frequency: Annual.
    Reporters: Bank holding companies.
    Annual reporting hours: 13,216.
    Estimated average hours per response: Range from .4 to 8.0 hours.
    Number of respondents: 4,130.
    Small businesses are affected.
    General description of report: The information collection is 
mandatory [12 U.S.C. 1844(b) and (c)] and [12 CFR 225.5(b)]. 
Confidential treatment is not routinely given to the data in these 
reports. However, confidential treatment for the report information, in 
whole or in part, can be requested in accordance with the instructions 
to the form. FR Y-11I, Schedule A, item 7.a, ``loans and leases past 
due 30 through 89 days `` and FR Y-11I, Schedule A, item 7.d, ``loans 
and leases restructured and included in past due and nonaccrual loans'' 
are confidential pursuant to Section (b)(8) of the Freedom of 
Information Act [5 U.S.C. 552(b)(8)].
    The FR Y-11I is filed annually by the top tier bank holding 
companies for each of their nonbank subsidiaries that are not required 
to file a quarterly FR Y-11Q. The FR Y-11I report consists of similar 
balance sheet, income statement, off-balance-sheet, and change in 
equity capital information that is included on the FR Y-11Q. In 
addition, the FR Y-11I also includes a loan schedule to be submitted 
only by respondents engaged in credit extending activities.
    The Board has adopted the following revisions to the FR Y-11I to be 
effective with the December 31, 1996 reporting date:
Balance Sheet
    (1) Delete line items 11 and 18, ``Balances with nonrelated 
institutions.''
    (2) Revise the reporting requirements of line item 15, ``Borrowing 
with original maturity of one year or less (including federal funds 
purchased),'' and line item 16, ``Borrowing with an original maturity 
of more than one year (including subordinated debt),'' to collect 
information based on remaining maturity instead of original maturity as 
currently reported.
Income Statement
    Add a line item to report the amount of equity in the undistributed 
income (losses) of subsidiaries.

Administrative Procedures Act

    The Administrative Procedures Act (5 U.S.C. 553(d)) provides that 
the required publication or service of a substantive rule shall be made 
not less that 30 days before its effective date, except as otherwise 
provided by the agency for good cause found and published with the 
rule. The substantive changes to this report are proposed to keep the 
reporting requirements consistent with those changes being incorporated 
in the Call Report to be filed by commercial banks as of March 31, 
1996. In the past, bank holding companies have commented that reporting 
burden is minimized by keeping the Call Report and the bank holding 
company reports consistent and by implementing the changes on the same 
date. Furthermore, no comments were received addressing the effective 
date of the revisions approved by the Board and contained in this 
notice to the bank holding company reports. For these reasons, in 
accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(d)(3), the Board finds there is good cause 
not to follow the 30-day notice requirements of 5 U.S.C. 553(d) and to 
make the implementation date for the revised FR Y-9C, FR Y-9LP, and FR 
Y-11Q reports effective for March 31, 1996.

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Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis

    The Board certifies that the above bank holding company reporting 
requirements are not expected to have a significant economic impact on 
small entities within the meaning of the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.). The reporting requirements for the small companies 
require significantly fewer items of data to be submitted than the 
amount of information required of large bank holding companies.
    The information that is collected on the reports is essential for 
the detection of emerging financial problems, the assessment of a 
holding company's financial condition and capital adequacy, the 
performance of pre-inspection reviews, and the evaluation of expansion 
activities through mergers and acquisitions. The imposition of the 
reporting requirements is essential for the Board's supervision of bank 
holding companies under the Bank Holding Company Act.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, March 12, 
1996.
William W. Wiles,
Secretary of the Board.
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