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Subject Index
A
- Acceptance corporations
- Acceptances
- Access devices—See Electronic funds transfers.
- Accounting procedures
- Accounts
- Acquisition financing
- Administrative procedure (U.S. government)
- Advances
- Advertising
- Affiliate-member bank relations
- Affiliates—See Affiliate-member bank relations; Management
official interlocks; Member banks; and specific types of entities.
- Affirmative action—See Equal employment opportunity (Federal
Reserve Board); Equal employment opportunity (financial institutions).
- African Development Bank
- African Development Fund
- Age discrimination—See Equal credit opportunity; Equal
employment opportunity (Federal Reserve Board).
- Agreement corporations
- Agricultural cooperatives
- Agricultural credit corporations
- Agricultural lands—See Farm lands.
- Agricultural loans
- Agricultural paper
- Agriculture, Department of
- Aid to Families with Dependent Children—See Temporary Aid
to Needy Families.
- Alarm systems—See Security devices and procedures.
- American Arbitration Association
- Amortization
- Annuities
- Antitrust law
- Appraisals
- Arbitrage
- Arbitration—See American Arbitration Association; Federal
Reserve System Labor Relations Panel; Labor-management relations;
National Panel of Labor Arbitrators.
- Archives—See National Archives and Records Service.
- Armored car services
- Arranging credit
- Asian Development Bank
- Assessments
- Attorney general
- Attorneys
- Audit programs—See Insured depository institutions.
- Automated clearinghouses
- Automated teller machines
- Automatic transfer of funds—See Electronic funds transfers.
- Availability of funds
- Availability of information—See Freedom of information.
B
- Balances
- Bank acquisitions
- Banker’s acceptances—See Acceptances.
- Bank examination
- Bank Export Services Act
- Bank holding companies
- Bank Holding Company Act of 1956
- Banking Act of 1933
- Bank mergers and consolidations
- Bank notes
- Bank premises
- Bank Protection Act
- Bankruptcy
- Banks
- Bank Secrecy Act
- Bank security—See Security devices and procedures.
- Bank service companies
- Basel II risk-based capital standards—See Capital.
- Benevolent organizations—See Not-for-profit organizations.
- Bills of exchange
- Bills of lading
- Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System—See Federal
Reserve Board.
- Bonds
- Borrowers obtaining securities credit
- Boycotts
- Branch offices
- Bretton Woods Agreements Act
- Bribery
- Brokers
- Building and loan associations—See Savings and loan associations.
C
- Calls—See Options.
- Capital
- Capital stock of Reserve Banks
- Cash
- Cash accounts
- Cash items
- Casinos—See Currency and foreign transactions.
- CDs—See Certificates of deposit.
- Cease-and-desist orders
- Central banks
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Central Liquidity Facility—See National Credit Union Administration.
- Certificates of deposit
- Change in Bank Control Act
- Charge cards—See Credit and charge cards.
- Charges—See Fees; Finance charges.
- Charitable organizations—See Not-for-profit organizations.
- Check Clearing for the 21st Century Act
- Check collection
- Checking accounts
- Checks
- Childbearing
- Child support
- CHIPS (Clearing House Interbank Payments System)—See Automated
clearinghouses.
- CIA—See Central Intelligence Agency.
- Circuit court—See Federal courts.
- Citizen participation—See Public participation.
- Civil Rights Act of 1968
- Claims
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- Clearing agencies
- Clearinghouses—See Automated clearinghouses.
- Club accounts
- Coinage
- Collections
- Collection services—See Check collection; Federal Reserve
Banks, at Collection of checks and other items.
- Collective bargaining—See Labor-management relations.
- College Construction Loan Insurance Association
- Colleges—See Universities and colleges.
- Commercial paper
- Commodities
- Commodity Credit Corporation
- Common carriers
- Community Advisory Council
- Community property
- Community reinvestment
- Community Reinvestment Act
- Compensation
- Comptroller general—See General Accounting Office.
- Comptroller of the Currency
- Computers—See Data processing.
- Concentration limit for financial companies
- Confidentiality
- Conflict of interest
- Congress of the United States
- Conservators
- Consolidations—See Bank mergers and consolidations.
- Consumer credit
- Consumer Credit Protection Act
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Consumer leasing
- Consumer Leasing Act
- Consumer protection
- Control of depository institution or company
- Convertible debt securities—See Debentures; Securities.
- Cooperative banks
- Cooperative marketing associations
- Cooperative organizations
- Correspondent relationships
- Cosigners
- Cotton
- Counsel—See Attorneys.
- Country risk
- Courts—See Federal courts.
- Covenants—See Securities credit by banks and persons other
than brokers or dealers.
- Credit
- Credit and charge cards
- Credit by brokers and dealers
- Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act
of 2009
- Credit cards—See Credit and charge cards.
- Credit control
- Credit Control Act
- Credit reporting
- Credit scoring systems—See Equal credit opportunity.
- Credit unions
- Creditworthiness—See Equal credit opportunity.
- Crimes
- Currency
- Currency and foreign transactions
- Customers
D
- Data processing
- Debentures
- Debit cards
- Debt collection practices—See Fair debt collection practices.
- Debt securities—See Securities.
- Definitions
- Delegation of authority—See Federal Reserve Board; Federal
Open Market Committee.
- Demand deposits
- Depositaries (government)—See Government depositaries.
- Deposit insurance
- Deposit Insurance Fund
- Depositions
- Depository Institution Management Interlocks Act
- Depository institutions
- Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act
- Derivatives
- Developing countries
- Disabled persons
- Disaster relief
- Discounts
- Discrimination prohibitions
- Divestiture
- Dividends
- Dollar exchange
- Drafts
- Drawing rights—See Special drawing rights.
- Due bills
E
- Early withdrawal of time deposits
- Economically disadvantaged persons
- Edge corporations
- Electronic funds transfers
- Electronic Fund Transfer Act
- Embezzlement
- Emergency Loan Guarantee Board
- Emergency restrictions on business
- Employee responsibilities and conduct
- Employees
- Employees’ savings plans
- Employee stock option and ownership plans
- Employers
- Employment
- Enemies—See Trading with the Enemy Act.
- Engraving
- Equal Access to Justice Act
- Equal credit opportunity
- Equal Credit Opportunity Act
- Equal employment opportunity (Federal Reserve Board)
- Equal employment opportunity (financial institutions)
- Equal housing—See Fair housing.
- Equity funding—See Insurance premium funding programs.
- Equity securities
- Escrow accounts
- Estates
- Ethics
- Eurocurrency liabilities
- European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- Examinations
- Executive stock purchase plans—See Employee stock option
and ownership plans.
- Exempted securities
- Expedited Funds Availability Act
- Export-Import Bank
- Export trading companies—See International banking operations.
F
- Fair credit reporting
- Fair Credit Reporting Act
- Fair debt collection practices
- Fair Debt Collection Practices Act
- Fair housing
- Fair Housing Act
- False representation
- Fannie Mae—See Federal National Mortgage Association.
- Farm Credit Administration
- Farmer Mac—See Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation.
- Farmers
- Farm lands
- FDIC—See Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- Federal Advisory Council
- Federal agencies
- Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation
- Federal Communications Commission
- Federal courts
- Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
- Federal Deposit Insurance Act
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Federal employees—See Employees.
- Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
- Federal funds
- Federal Home Loan Bank Board
- Federal Home Loan Banks
- Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation
- Federal Housing Administration
- Federal Housing Finance Board
- Federal Intermediate Credit Banks
- Federal land banks
- Federal National Mortgage Association
- Federal Open Market Committee
- Federal Power Commission
- Federal Register
- Federal Reserve Act
- Federal Reserve agents
- Federal Reserve Banks
- Federal Reserve Board
- Federal Reserve Bulletin
- Federal Reserve Districts
- Federal Reserve notes
- Federal Reserve System
- Federal Reserve System Labor Relations Panel
- Federal Trade Commission
- Federal Trade Commission Act
- FedNowSee Wire transfers of funds.
- Fedwire—See Wire transfers of funds.
- Fees
- Finance charges
- Finance companies
- Financial contracts—See Derivatives; Futures and forwards;
Options; Swap transactions.
- Financial holding companies
- Financial institutions
- Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act
of 1978 (FIRA)
- Financial privacy
- Financial records
- Financial reports—See Financial statements and reports.
- Financial services
- Financial statements and reports
- Financial subsidiaries
- Finder’s fees—See Fees.
- FIRA—See Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest
Rate Control Act of 1978 (FIRA).
- Fiscal agents
- Float
- Flood insurance
- Foreign banking organizations
- Foreign borrowers
- Foreign currencies
- Foreign exchange
- Foreign gifts and decorations
- Foreign lenders—See Borrowers obtaining securities credit;
Foreign banking organizations; Securities credit by banks and persons
other than brokers or dealers.
- Foreign states
- Forgery
- Forms
- Forward contracts—See Futures and forwards.
- Fraternal organizations—See Not-for-profit organizations.
- Fraud
- Freddie Mac—See Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
- Freedom of information
- Freedom of Information Act
- Fuel conservation
- Futures and forwards
- Futures commission merchants
G
- Gambling—See Regulation GG.
- General Accounting Office
- General Services Administration
- Gifts and entertainment
- Ginnie Mae—See Government National Mortgage Association.
- Glass-Steagall Act
- Gold
- Gold bonds—See United States bonds.
- Gold certificates—See Gold.
- Government benefits—See Electronic funds transfers.
- Government corporations
- Government depositaries
- Government employees—See Employees.
- Government in the Sunshine Act
- Government National Mortgage Association
- Government obligations
- Gratuities—See Bribery; Foreign gifts and decorations;
Gifts and entertainment.
H
- Hearings
- Hedging
- Holding companies
- Home-equity plans
- Home fuel budget plans—See Fuel conservation.
- Home mortgage disclosure
- Home Mortgage Disclosure Act
- Homeowners Protection Act of 1998
- Homestead associations
- Hospitals
- Housing
- Housing and Urban Development, Department of
- Housing authorities
- Housing finance
- Husbands—See Married persons; Spouses.
I
- Identity theft
- Income taxes—See Taxes.
- Indians
- Individual retirement accounts—See IRAs.
- Industrial banks
- Industrial loan companies
- Information
- Injunctions
- Insolvency
- Institutional investments
- Insurance
- Insurance companies
- Insurance premium funding programs
- Insured depository institutions
- Inter-American Development Bank
- Inter-American Investment Corporation
- Interbank transactions
- Interdistrict Settlement Fund
- Interest on deposits
- Interest rates
- Interior, Department of the
- Interlocks
- Internal Revenue Service
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
- International Banking Act of 1978
- International banking facilities—See International banking
operations, at Facilities.
- International banking operations
- International Development Association
- International Finance Corporation
- International lending supervision
- International Lending Supervision Act
- International Monetary Fund
- Internet gambling—See Regulation GG.
- Interstate banking
- Interstate commerce
- Investment advisers
- Investment companies
- IRAs
J
- Joint ventures
- Judges
- Judicial review
- Jurisdiction
- Justice, Department of
K
- Keogh accounts
L
- Labor, Department of
- Labor-management relations
- Labor unions
- Land banks—See Federal land banks.
- Land development
- Lawyers—See Attorneys.
- Leasing
- Legal tender
- Letters of credit
- Leverage
- Licenses
- Liens
- Life insurance
- Limited partnerships
- Liquidation
- Liquidity
- Loan guarantees
- Loans
- Loans to officers, directors, and shareholders of member banks
- Local government
- Lotteries
M
- Management official interlocks
- Margin requirements
- Married persons
- McFadden Act
- Mediation—See Federal Reserve System Labor Relations Panel.
- Medical information
- Meetings, public observation of—See Public participation.
- Member banks
- Member bank-securities dealer interlocks
- Merchant banking—See Financial holding companies.
- Mergers
- Monetary Control Act of 1980
- Monetary policy
- Money
- Money laundering
- Money market
- Money market deposit accounts—See Money market, at Deposit accounts.
- Money orders
- Monopolies
- Morris Plan
- Mortgage insurance
- Mortgages
- Municipal securities—See Securities.
- Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board
- Mutual funds
- Mutual savings banks
N
- National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial
Problems
- National Archives and Records Service
- National bank notes
- National banks
- National Center for Dispute Settlement—See American Arbitration
Association.
- National Credit Union Administration
- National defense
- National origin
- National Panel of Labor Arbitrators
- National security
- Native Americans—See Indians.
- Negotiable order of withdrawal accounts—See NOW accounts.
- Net settlement—See Wire transfers of funds.
- Net transaction accounts—See Transaction accounts.
- Nonbank banks
- Nonbanking activities—See Bank holding companies.
- Noncash items
- Nonmember banks
- Nonpersonal time deposits—See Time deposits.
- Nonprofit organizations—See Not-for-profit organizations.
- North American Development Bank
- Not-for-profit organizations
- NOW accounts
O
- Odd-lot dealers—See Securities brokers and dealers.
- Office of Government Ethics
- Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
- Open market operations
- Options
- Organizational rules—See Rules (Federal Reserve Board).
- Overdrafts
- Over-the-counter margin stock list
P
- Partnerships
- Pass-through accounts
- Pass-through correspondents
- Payment system—See Availability of funds; Check collection;
Electronic funds transfers; Wire transfers of funds.
- Payrolls
- Pensions
- Policy statements and guidelines
- Poor people—See Economically disadvantaged persons.
- Postal money orders—See Money orders.
- President of the United States
- Prices
- Privacy
- Privacy Act
- Privacy of consumer financial information
- Private placement of securities
- Procedural rules—See Rules (Federal Reserve Board).
- Procurement—See Federal Reserve Banks, at Contracts.
- Profit-sharing plans
- Promissory notes
- Property
- Proxies
- Public assistance programs
- Public debt—See State obligations; United States, at Obligations.
- Public participation
- Public utilities
- Puerto Rico
- Purpose credit—See Borrowers obtaining securities credit;
Credit by brokers and dealers; Securities credit by banks and persons
other than brokers or dealers.
- Puts—See Options.
R
- Racial discrimination
- Rating systems—See Bank examination.
- Real estate
- Real estate appraisal
- Real estate settlement procedures
- Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act
- Records
- Redlining—See Fair housing.
- Refinancing
- Registered securities associations
- Regulation A
- Regulation B
- Regulation B (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation BB
- Regulation C (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation CC
- Regulation D
- Regulation DD (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation E
- Regulation E (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation EE
- Regulation F
- Regulation FF
- Regulation G
- Regulation GG
- Regulation H
- Regulation HH
- Regulation I
- Regulation II
- Regulation J
- Regulation K
- Regulation KK
- Regulation L
- Regulation LL
- Regulation M
- Regulation M (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation MM
- Regulation N
- Regulation NN
- Regulation O
- Regulation OO
- Regulation P (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation PP
- Regulation Q
- Regulation QQ
- Regulation R
- Regulation RR
- Regulation S
- Regulations
- Regulation T
- Regulation TT
- Regulation U
- Regulation V
- Regulation V (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation VV
- Regulation W
- Regulation WW
- Regulation X
- Regulation X (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation XX
- Regulation Y
- Regulation YY
- Regulation Z
- Regulation Z (Consumer Financial Protection Bureau)
- Regulation ZZ
- Regulatory agencies—See specific agencies and types of regulated
entities.
- Regulatory flexibility
- Religion
- Religious organizations
- Rents
- Reports
- Repurchase agreements
- Reserve banks—See Federal Reserve Banks.
- Reserve requirements
- Resolution plans—See Regulation QQ.
- Resolution Trust Corporation
- Restraint of trade—See Antitrust law.
- Restricted securities—See Securities, generally.
- Retirement
- Right to financial privacy
- Right to Financial Privacy Act
- Robbery
- Rulemaking
- Rules (Federal Reserve Board)
S
- Safe deposit boxes
- Safes—See Security devices and procedures.
- Salaries
- Sallie Mae—See Student Loan Marketing Association.
- Savings accounts
- Savings and loan associations
- Savings associations
- Savings banks
- Savings deposits
- Search warrants
- Securities
- Securities Act of 1933
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Securities associations—See Registered securities associations.
- Securities brokers and dealers
- Securities credit—See Borrowers obtaining securities credit;
Credit by brokers and dealers; Securities credit by banks and persons
other than brokers or dealers.
- Securities credit by banks and persons other than brokers or dealers
- Securities dealers—See Securities brokers and dealers.
- Securities Exchange Act of 1934
- Securities exchanges
- Securities owners—See Stockholders.
- Securities registration
- Securities violations
- Security (national)—See National security.
- Security devices and procedures
- Self-regulatory organizations (securities)
- Settlement—See Wire transfers of funds, at Net settlements.
- Sex discrimination
- Shareholders—See Stockholders.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Short sales—See Credit by brokers and dealers; Options.
- Signatures
- Silver
- Small Business Administration
- Small business investment companies
- Social Security
- Special drawing rights
- Spouses
- State agencies
- State banks
- State law
- State member banks
- State obligations
- States
- Stock
- Stockbrokers—See Securities brokers and dealers.
- Stock exchanges—See Securities exchanges.
- Stockholders
- Stock option and ownership plans—See Employee stock option
and ownership plans.
- Straddles—See Options, generally .
- Student Loan Marketing Association
- Subpoenas
- Subsidiaries—See specific institutions whose subsidiaries are
sought.
- Substitute checks
- Summonses
- Supreme Court
- Surface Transportation Board
- Swap transactions
- Sweep arrangements
- Syndicates
- System Open Market Account
T
- Taxes
- Temporary Aid to Needy Families
- Tender offers
- Theft
- Thrift institutions
- Time deposits
- Trading with the Enemy Act
- Transaction accounts
- Transfer agents
- Transportation, Department of
- Traveler’s checks
- Treasury, Department of the
- Treasury, secretary of the
- Treasury, U.S.—See United States at Treasury.
- Treasury bills
- Trust accounts
- Trust companies
- Trustees
- Trust funds
- Trusts
- Truth in lending
- Truth in Lending Act
- Truth in savings
- Truth in Savings Act
U
- Underwriters
- Unemployment compensation
- Unfair or deceptive acts or practices—See Consumer protection.
- Uniform Financial Institutions Rating System
- Unions—See Labor unions.
- United States
- United States attorneys—See Attorneys.
- United States bonds
- United States obligations—See United States, at Obligations;
United States bonds.
- United States Postal Service
- United States savings bonds—See United States bonds.
- United States Treasurer
- Universities and colleges
- Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006
- Unsafe or unsound banking practices
- Usury ceilings—See Mortgages.
- Utilities—See Public utilities.
V
- Vault cash—See Reserve requirements.
- Vaults—See Security devices and procedures.
- Venue
- Veterans Affairs, Department of
W
- Wages
- War
- Warrants
- Welfare programs—See Public assistance programs.
- Wire transfers of funds
- Withdrawals
- Witnesses
- Wives—See Married persons; Spouses.
- Women
- World Bank—See International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.
