For purposes of this subpart, the following
definitions apply:
(a) Affiliate.
(1) The term affiliate has the meaning given in section 202 of the Interlocks Act (12 U.S.C.
3201). For purposes of that section 202, shares held by an individual
include shares held by members of his or her immediate family. “Immediate
family” means spouse, mother, father, child, grandchild, sister, brother,
or any of their spouses, whether or not any of their shares are held
in trust.
(2) For purposes of section
202(3)(B) of the Interlocks Act (12 U.S.C. 3201(3)(B)), an affiliate
relationship involving a savings and loan holding company based on
common ownership does not exist if the Board determines, after giving
the affected persons the opportunity to respond, that the asserted
affiliation was established in order to avoid the prohibitions of
the Interlocks Act and does not represent a true commonality of interest
between the depository organizations. In making this determination,
the Board considers, among other things, whether a person, including
members of his or her immediate family, whose shares are necessary
to constitute the group owns a nominal percentage of the shares of
one of the organizations and the percentage is substantially disproportionate
to that person’s ownership of shares in the other organization.
(b) Area median income means:
(1) The median family income for the metropolitan
statistical area (MSA), if a depository organization is located in
an MSA; or
(2) The statewide nonmetropolitan
median family income, if a depository organization is located outside
an MSA.
(c) Community means a city, town,
or village, and contiguous or adjacent cities, towns, or villages.
(d) Contiguous or adjacent cities, towns, or villages means
cities, towns, or villages whose borders touch each other or whose
borders are within 10 road miles of each other at their closest points.
The property line of an office located in an unincorporated city,
town, or village is the boundary line of that city, town, or village
for the purpose of this definition.
(e) Depository holding
company means a bank holding company or a savings and loan holding
company (as more fully defined in section 202 of the Interlocks Act
(12 U.S.C. 3201)) having its principal office located in the United
States.
(f) Depository institution means a commercial
bank (including a private bank), a savings bank, a trust company,
a savings and loan association, a building and loan association, a
homestead association, a cooperative bank, an industrial bank, or
a credit union, chartered under the laws of the United States and
having a principal office located in the United States. Additionally,
a United States office, including a branch or agency, of a foreign
commercial bank is a depository institution.
(g) Depository
institution affiliate means a depository institution that is an
affiliate of a depository organization.
(h) Depository organization means a depository institution or a depository holding company.
(i) Low- and moderate-income areas means census tracts
(or, if an area is not in a census tract, block numbering areas delineated
by the United States Bureau of the Census) where the median family
income is less than 100 percent of the area median income.
(j) Management official.
(1) The term management official means:
(i) A director;
(ii) An advisory or honorary director
of a depository institution with total assets of $100 million or more;
(iii) A senior executive officer
as that term is defined in section 225.71(c) of this chapter;
(iv) A branch manager;
(v) A trustee of a depository organization
under the control of trustees; and
(vi) Any person who has a representative or nominee serving in any
of the capacities in this paragraph (j)(1).
(2) The term management official does not include:
(i) A person whose management functions relate exclusively to the
business of retail merchandising or manufacturing;
(ii) A person whose management functions
relate principally to the business outside the United States of a
foreign commercial bank; or
(iii)
A person described in the provisos of section 202(4) of the Interlocks
Act (12 U.S.C. 3201(4)) (referring to an officer of a State-chartered
savings bank, cooperative bank, or trust company that neither makes
real estate mortgage loans nor accepts savings).
(k) Office means a principal or branch office
of a depository institution located in the United States. Office does not include a representative office of a foreign commercial
bank, an electronic terminal, or a loan production office.
(l) Person means a natural person, corporation, or
other business entity.
(m) Relevant metropolitan statistical
area (RMSA) means an MSA, a primary MSA, or a consolidated MSA
that is not comprised of designated Primary MSAs to the extent that
these terms are defined and applied by the Office of Management and
Budget.
(n) Representative or nominee means a natural
person who serves as a management official and has an obligation to
act on behalf of another person with respect to management responsibilities.
The Board will find that a person has an obligation to act on behalf
of another person only if the first person has an agreement, express
or implied, to act on behalf of the second person with respect to
management responsibilities. The Board will determine, after giving
the affected persons an opportunity to respond, whether a person is
a representative or nominee.
(o) Savings association means:
(1) Any Federal
savings association (as defined in section 3(b)(2) of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(b)(2)));
(2) Any state savings association (as defined
in section 3(b)(3) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C.
1813(b)(3))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation; and
(3) Any corporation (other than a bank
as defined in section 3(a)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act
(12 U.S.C. 1813(a)(1))) the deposits of which are insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation, that the Board of Directors of the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Comptroller of the Currency
jointly determine to be operating in substantially the same manner
as a savings association.
(p) Total assets.
(1)
The term total assets means assets measured on a consolidated
basis and reported in the most recent fiscal year-end Consolidated
Report of Condition and Income.
(2) The term total assets does not include:
(i) Assets of a diversified savings
and loan holding company as defined by section 10(a)(1)(F) of the
Home Owners’ Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1467a(a)(1)(F)) other than the assets
of its depository institution affiliate;
(ii) Assets of a bank holding company
that is exempt from the prohibitions of section 4 of the Bank Holding
Company Act of 1956 pursuant to an order issued under section 4(d)
of that Act (12 U.S.C. 1843(d)) other than the assets of its depository
institution affiliate; or
(iii)
Assets of offices of a foreign commercial bank other than the assets
of its United States branch or agency.
(3) Temporary
relief for 2020 and 2021. Notwithstanding paragraph (p)(1) of
this section, from December 2, 2020, through December 31, 2021, for
purposes of this subpart J, the term total assets, with respect to
a depository organization, means the lesser of assets of the depository
organization reported on a consolidated basis as of December 31, 2019,
and assets reported on a consolidated basis as of the end of the most
recent fiscal year. The relief provided under this paragraph (p)(3)
does not apply to a depository organization if the Board determines
that permitting the depository organization to determine its assets
in accordance with that paragraph would not be commensurate with the
risk profile of the depository organization. When making this determination,
the Board will consider all relevant factors, including the extent
of asset growth of the depository organization since December 31,
2019; the causes of such growth, including whether growth occurred
as a result of mergers or acquisitions; whether such growth is likely
to be temporary or permanent; whether the depository organization
has become involved in any additional activities since December 31,
2019; the asset size of any parent companies; and the type of assets
held by the depository organization. In making a determination pursuant
to this paragraph (p)(3), the Board will apply notice and response
procedures in the same manner and to the same extent as the notice
and response procedures in 12 CFR 263.202.
(q) United States means the United States of America, any State or
territory of the United States of America, the District of Columbia,
Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands.
