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Regulation H
Membership of State Banking Institutions
in the Federal Reserve System

12 CFR 208; as amended effective February 7, 2023
Subpart A—General Membership and Branching Requirements
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • Definitions
  • Application and conditions for membership in the Federal Reserve System
  • Capital adequacy
  • Dividends and other distributions
  • Establishment and maintenance of branches
  • Prohibition against use of interstate branches primarily for deposit production
Subpart B—Investments and Loans
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • Investments in premises and securities
  • Community development and public-welfare investments
  • Agricultural loan loss amortization
  • Letters of credit and acceptances
  • Loans in areas having special flood hazards
Subpart C—Bank Securities and Securities-Related Activities
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • State member banks as transfer agents
  • Notice of disciplinary sanctions imposed by registered clearing agency
  • Application for stay or review of disciplinary sanctions imposed by registered clearing agency
  • Recordkeeping and confirmation of certain securities transactions effected by state member banks
  • Qualification requirements for transactions in certain securities
  • Reporting requirements for state member banks subject to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
  • Government securities sales practices
Subpart D—Prompt Corrective Action
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, scope, other supervisory authority, and disclosure of capital categories
  • Definitions for purposes of this subpart
  • Notice of capital category
  • Capital measures and capital-category definitions
  • Capital-restoration plans
  • Mandatory and discretionary supervisory actions under section 38
Subpart E—Real Estate Lending, Appraisal Standards, and Minimum Requirements for Appraisal Management Companies
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • Real estate lending standards
Subpart F—Miscellaneous Requirements
  • Section
  • Authority, purpose, and scope
  • Bank security procedures
  • Suspicious-activity reports
  • Procedures for monitoring Bank Secrecy Act compliance
  • Frequency of examination
Subpart G—Financial Subsidiaries of State Member Banks
  • Section
  • What are the requirements to invest in or control a financial subsidiary?
  • What activities may a financial subsidiary conduct?
  • What additional provisions are applicable to state member banks with financial subsidiaries?
  • What happens if the state member bank or a depository institution affiliate fails to continue to meet certain requirements?
  • What happens if the state member bank or any of its insured depository institution affiliates receives less than a satisfactory CRA rating?
  • What Federal Reserve approvals are necessary for financial subsidiaries?
  • Definitions
Subpart I—[Removed and Reserved]
Subpart K—Forms, Instructions, and Reports
AUTHORITY: 12 U.S.C. 24, 36, 92a, 93a, 248(a), 248(c), 321-338a, 371d, 461, 481-486, 601, 611, 1814, 1816, 1817(a)(3), 1817(a)(12), 1818, 1820(d)(9), 1833(j), 1828(o), 1831, 1831o, 1831p-1, 1831r-1, 1831w, 1831x, 1835a, 1882, 2901-2907, 3105, 3310, 3331-3351, 3905-3909, 5371, and 5371 note; 15 U.S.C. 78b, 78I(b), 78l(i), 780-4(c)(5), 78q, 78q-1, 78w, 1681s, 1681w, 6801, and 6805; 31 U.S.C. 5318; 42 U.S.C. 4012a, 4104a, 4104b, 4106, and 4128.

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This subpart begins at 6-2800.
Interpretations begin at 3-410.
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