80_FR_41544 80 FR 41409 - Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Final Revisions Applicable to Banking Organizations Subject to the Advanced Approaches Risk-Based Capital Rule

80 FR 41409 - Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Final Revisions Applicable to Banking Organizations Subject to the Advanced Approaches Risk-Based Capital Rule

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 135 (July 15, 2015)

Page Range41409-41426
FR Document2015-15748

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are adopting a final rule to clarify, correct, and update aspects of the regulatory capital framework applicable to certain large, internationally active banking organizations. The revisions correct technical and typographical errors and clarify certain requirements of the advanced approaches risk-based capital rule based on observations made by the agencies during the parallel run review process of advanced approaches banking organizations. The corrections also enhance consistency of the agencies' advanced approaches risk-based capital rule with relevant international standards. The agencies proposed these changes in a notice of proposed rulemaking that was published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2014. The agencies are now adopting the proposed rule as final with some additional clarifications and amendments.

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DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

12 CFR Part 3

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

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Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory Capital, Final Revisions 
Applicable to Banking Organizations Subject to the Advanced Approaches 
Risk-Based Capital Rule

AGENCIES:  Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Treasury; the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; and the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the Board 
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), and the Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are adopting a final rule to 
clarify, correct, and update aspects of the regulatory capital 
framework applicable to certain large, internationally active banking 
organizations. The revisions correct technical and typographical errors 
and clarify certain requirements of the advanced approaches risk-based 
capital rule based on observations made by the agencies during the 
parallel run review process of advanced approaches banking 
organizations. The corrections also enhance consistency of the 
agencies' advanced approaches risk-based capital rule with relevant 
international standards. The agencies proposed these changes in a 
notice of proposed rulemaking that was published in the Federal 
Register on December 18, 2014. The agencies are now adopting the 
proposed rule as final with some additional clarifications and 
amendments.

DATES: This rule is effective on October 1, 2015.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    OCC: Margot Schwadron, Senior Risk Expert (202) 649-6982; or Mark 
Ginsberg, Principal Risk Expert (202) 649-6983, Capital Policy; or 
Kevin Korzeniewski, Senior Attorney, Legislative and Regulatory 
Activities Division, (202) 649-5490, for persons who are deaf or hard 
of hearing, TTY, (202) 649-5597, Office of the Comptroller of the 
Currency, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20219.
    Board: Constance M. Horsley, Assistant Director, (202) 452-5239; 
Juan Climent, Manager, (202) 872-7546; Andrew Willis, Supervisory 
Financial Analyst, (202) 912-4323, Matthew McQueeney, Senior Financial 
Analyst, (202) 425-2942, or Justyna Milewski, Senior Financial Analyst, 
(202) 452-3607, Capital and Regulatory Policy, Division of Banking 
Supervision and Regulation; or Christine Graham, Counsel (202) 452-
3005; or David W. Alexander, Counsel (202) 452-2877, Legal Division, 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 20th and C Streets 
NW., Washington, DC 20551. For the hearing impaired only, 
Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD), (202) 263-4869.
    FDIC: Bobby R. Bean, Associate Director, [email protected]; Ryan 
Billingsley, Chief, Capital Policy Section, [email protected]; or 
Benedetto Bosco, Capital Markets Policy Analyst, [email protected]; 
Capital Markets Branch, Division of Risk Management Supervision, (202) 
898-6888; or Michael Phillips, Counsel, [email protected]; Rachel 
Ackmann, Senior Attorney, [email protected]; Supervision Branch, Legal 
Division, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20429.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background

    In 2013, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the 
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), and the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) (collectively, the 
agencies) comprehensively revised and strengthened the capital 
requirements applicable to banking organizations \1\ (regulatory 
capital framework).\2\ Among other changes, the regulatory capital 
framework revised elements of the advanced approaches risk-based 
capital rule (advanced approaches rule) now located at subpart E of the 
agencies' revised regulatory capital framework.\3\
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    \1\ The term banking organizations includes national banks, 
state member banks, state nonmember banks, savings associations, and 
top-tier bank holding companies domiciled in the United States not 
subject to the Board's Small Bank Holding Company Policy Statement 
(12 CFR part 225, appendix C), as well as top-tier savings and loan 
holding companies domiciled in the United States, except for certain 
savings and loan holding companies that are substantially engaged in 
insurance underwriting or commercial activities.
    \2\ The Board and the OCC issued a joint final rule on October 
11, 2013 (78 FR 62018) and the FDIC issued a substantially identical 
interim final rule on September 10, 2013 (78 FR 55340). In April 
2014, the FDIC adopted the interim final rule as a final rule with 
no substantive changes. 79 FR 20754 (April 14, 2014).
    \3\ 12 CFR part 3 (OCC), 12 CFR part 217 (Board), and 12 CFR 
part 324 (FDIC).
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    The advanced approaches rule applies to large, internationally 
active banking organizations, generally those with $250 billion or more 
in total consolidated assets or $10 billion or more in total on-balance 
sheet foreign exposure, depository institution subsidiaries of those 
banking organizations that use the advanced approaches rule, and 
banking organizations that elect to use the advanced approaches rule 
(advanced approaches banking organizations).\4\ Before an advanced 
approaches banking organization may use the advanced approaches rule to 
determine its risk-based capital requirements, it must conduct a 
satisfactory parallel run.\5\ After the primary Federal supervisor 
determines that the banking organization fully complies with all the 
qualification requirements, has conducted a satisfactory parallel run, 
and has an adequate process to ensure ongoing compliance, the banking

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organization will be required to use the advanced approaches rule to 
calculate its risk-based capital requirements.\6\
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    \4\ 12 CFR 3.100(b)(1) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.100(b)(1) (Board), and 
12 CFR 324.100(b)(1) (FDIC).
    \5\ 12 CFR 3.121(c) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.121(c) (Board), and 12 CFR 
324.121(c) (FDIC).
    \6\ 12 CFR 3.121(d) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.121(d) (Board), and 12 CFR 
324.121(d) (FDIC).
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    An advanced approaches banking organization that is required to 
calculate its risk-based capital requirements under the advanced 
approaches rule also must determine its risk-based capital requirements 
under the standardized approach in subpart D of the agencies' 
regulatory capital framework.\7\ In accordance with section 171 of the 
Dodd-Frank Act, the lower ratio (i.e., the more binding ratio) for each 
risk-based capital requirement is the ratio the banking organization 
must use for regulatory capital purposes.
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    \7\ See 12 CFR part 3.10(c) (OCC); 12 CFR part 217.10(c) 
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II. Proposed Rule and Summary of Comments

    In December 2014, the agencies invited comment on a notice of 
proposed rulemaking designed to clarify, correct, and update aspects of 
the regulatory capital framework applicable to advanced approaches 
banking organizations (proposed rule).\8\ The proposed revisions were 
largely driven by observations made by the agencies during the parallel 
run review process of advanced approaches banking organizations, and 
included corrections to typographical and technical errors, 
clarifications and updates in light of revisions to other rules. The 
proposed revisions were also intended to enhance consistency of the 
agencies' advanced approaches rule with relevant international 
standards.\9\ The proposed amendments affect only those provisions of 
the revised capital framework that apply to advanced approaches banking 
organizations.
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    \8\ See 79 FR 75455 (Dec. 18, 2014).
    \9\ See International Convergence of Capital Measurement and 
Capital Standards: A Revised Framework,'' (June 2006) http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs128.htm.
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    The agencies received two comment letters on the proposed 
revisions--one from a financial services trade association, and another 
from a public advocacy nonprofit organization. The financial services 
trade association suggested that several of the proposed changes also 
be applied to the standardized approach. Both commenters expressed 
views on the proposed treatment of cleared transactions. The financial 
services trade association suggested that the agencies expand the 
proposed treatment, while the public advocacy nonprofit organization 
suggested that the proposed treatment was too generous. In addition, 
the public advocacy nonprofit organization disagreed with the proposed 
exemption for cleared transactions from the higher capital charge 
applicable to large nettings sets.

III. Overview of the Final Rule

1. Definitions and Applicability

A. Definition of Residential Mortgage Exposure
    The proposed rule would have revised the definition of residential 
mortgage exposure in section 2 of the regulatory capital framework to 
clarify that an advanced approaches banking organization must manage 
qualifying exposures as part of a segment of exposures with homogenous 
risk characteristics, and not on an individual basis, for purposes of 
classifying an exposure as a residential mortgage exposure under the 
advanced approaches rule. This clarification was consistent with the 
agencies' intent in adopting the proposed definition of residential 
mortgage exposure, and with the requirement that an advanced approaches 
banking organization have an internal system that groups retail 
exposures into the appropriate retail exposure subcategory and that 
groups the retail exposures in each retail exposure subcategory into 
separate segments with homogenous risk characteristics.\10\ The 
agencies did not receive any comments on this part of the proposed rule 
and are adopting it as final, with a technical edit to correct a 
grammatical error.
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    \10\ See 12 CFR 3.122(b)(3) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.122(b)(3) (Board), 
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B. Calculation of Total On-Balance Sheet Foreign Exposure
    As mentioned above, the advanced approaches rule generally applies 
to a banking organization with $250 billion or more in total 
consolidated assets or $10 billion or more in on-balance sheet foreign 
exposure. The proposed rule would have updated the method of 
calculating on-balance sheet foreign exposure to reference the current 
line items on the regulatory reporting forms. The agencies did not 
receive any comments on this part of the proposed rule and are adopting 
it as final, with a technical edit to update a reference to the Federal 
Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) 009 Report instead 
of referencing the Call Report.

2. Disclosure Requirements

A. Disclosure Requirements for Advanced Approaches Banking 
Organizations
    Section 173 of the regulatory capital framework requires advanced 
approaches banking organizations that have completed the parallel run 
process to provide qualitative and quantitative disclosures relating to 
their capital requirements. The proposed rule would have clarified two 
items related to disclosure requirements in the advanced approaches 
rule.
    First, the proposed rule would have clarified that an advanced 
approaches banking organization would be required to disclose 
information related to external ratings in Table 6 to section 173 only 
if it considered external ratings in its internal ratings approach. An 
advanced approaches banking organization that did not use or consider 
external ratings would not be required to make such a disclosure.
    Second, the proposed rule would have updated the disclosure 
requirement related to securitization exposures in Table 9 to reflect 
the treatment of credit-enhancing interest only strips (CEIOs) and 
after-tax gain-on-sale resulting from a securitization. Specifically, 
CEIOs that do not constitute after-tax gain-on-sale would be risk-
weighted at 1,250 percent, and an after-tax gain-on-sale resulting from 
a securitization would be deducted from common equity tier 1 capital, 
rather than from tier 1 capital. The agencies did not receive any 
comments on this part of the proposed rule and are adopting it as 
final.
B. Application and Disclosure of the Supplementary Leverage Ratio
    Advanced approaches banking organizations are subject to the 
supplementary leverage ratio.\11\ The agencies proposed to clarify that 
the supplementary leverage ratio would apply to an advanced approaches 
banking organization, regardless of whether it had completed its 
parallel run process. The supplementary leverage ratio described in 
section 10(c)(4) would begin to apply to a banking organization 
immediately following the quarter in which the banking organization 
becomes subject to the advanced approaches rule pursuant to section 
100(b)(1) of the advanced approaches rule.
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    \11\ See section 10(c)(4)(ii) of the regulatory capital 
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    In addition, the agencies proposed to clarify the disclosure 
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applicable to advanced approaches banking organizations.\12\ The 
proposed rule clarified that advanced approaches banking organizations, 
not just top-tier banking organizations, would be required to publicly 
disclose the supplementary leverage ratio and the components thereof 
(that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage exposure) on a quarterly 
basis. A banking organization that qualified as an advanced approaches 
banking organization before January 1, 2015, would be required to 
provide these disclosures, beginning with the first quarter in 2015, 
while a banking organization that qualified as an advanced approaches 
banking organization on or after January 1, 2015, would be subject to 
the disclosures beginning with the calendar quarter immediately 
following the calendar quarter in which the banking organization became 
an advanced approaches banking organization. For example, a banking 
organization that becomes subject to the advanced approaches rule as of 
year-end 2015 would begin disclosing its supplementary leverage ratio 
and components thereof as of March 31, 2016.
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    \12\ Section 172(d) was added to the regulatory capital 
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    In addition to the disclosure requirements above, the proposed rule 
clarified that all top-tier \13\ advanced approaches banking 
organizations, regardless of their parallel run status, would be 
required to publicly disclose the quantitative information described in 
Table 13 in section 173 of the advanced approaches rule \14\ for twelve 
consecutive quarters or a shorter period, as applicable, beginning on 
January 1, 2015. For example, a top-tier banking organization that 
became an advanced approaches banking organization prior to January 1, 
2015 (therefore subject to the supplementary leverage ratio disclosure 
requirements beginning January 1, 2015), and remains the top-tier 
banking organization, would publicly disclose supplementary leverage 
ratio data for one quarter in the first quarterly disclosure of 2015, 
two quarters in the second quarterly disclosure of 2015, and so on, 
disclosing twelve quarters of supplementary leverage ratio data in the 
quarterly disclosures for the fourth quarter of 2017. The agencies did 
not receive comments on this part of the proposed rule, and are 
finalizing it as proposed.
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    \13\ Disclosure requirements in section 173 of the advanced 
approaches rule apply only to banking organizations that are not a 
consolidated subsidiary of a BHC, covered SLHC, or depository 
institution that is subject to these disclosure requirements or a 
subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking organization that is subject to 
comparable public disclosure requirements in its home jurisdiction.
    \14\ Table 13 in section 173 of the advanced approaches rule was 
adopted by the agencies in the 2014 SLR rule.
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3. Risk Weights for Cleared Transactions

A. Risk Weights for Certain Client Cleared Transactions
    The agencies proposed to revise the advanced approaches rule for 
clearing member banking organizations' exposures to a central 
counterparty (CCP) where the clearing member does not guarantee the 
performance of the CCP to the clearing member client. Under the 
advanced approaches rule, a clearing member banking organization is 
required to assign a two percent risk weight to the trade exposure 
amount for a cleared transaction with a qualifying CCP (QCCP), and a 
risk weight applicable to the CCP under section 32 of the regulatory 
capital framework for a cleared transaction with a CCP that is not a 
QCCP. This risk weight is applied when the banking organization is 
acting as a financial intermediary on behalf of its clearing member 
client.
    The proposed rule would have permitted clearing member banking 
organizations to assign a zero percent risk weight under the advanced 
approaches rule to the trade exposure amount of a cleared transaction 
that arises when a clearing member banking organization does not 
guarantee the performance of the CCP and has no payment obligation to 
the clearing member client in the event of a CCP default. The proposed 
treatment would align the risk-based capital requirements for client-
cleared transactions with the treatment under the agencies' 2014 SLR 
rule.
    Both commenters provided views on this provision. The public 
advocacy nonprofit organization suggested that the agencies not 
finalize the zero percent risk weight, arguing that it underestimates 
the clearing member's risk to a CCP default. Conversely, the financial 
services trade association suggested that the agencies expand the zero 
percent risk weight to transactions cleared on behalf of clients that 
would not meet the eligibility criteria in sections 3(a)(3) and 
(3)(a)(4) of the regulatory capital framework for a cleared 
transaction, to the extent that the clearing member does not guarantee 
the performance of the CCP and has no payment obligation to the 
clearing member client in the event of a CCP default.
    The agencies believe that requiring the clearing member banking 
organization to include in risk-weighted assets a trade exposure amount 
for the client-cleared transactions could overstate the clearing 
member's risk where the clearing member is not contractually obligated 
to perform on the transaction to its client in the event of a CCP 
failure. Furthermore, the public advocacy nonprofit commenter's 
concerns are partially addressed by the additional capital requirement 
for a clearing member banking organization's exposure to the default 
fund of a CCP, which considers its capitalization and risk profile, and 
the nature of its default fund. With respect to the financial services 
trade association's suggestion to make an exception from the 
requirements in sections 3(a)(3) and 3(a)(4) of the regulatory capital 
framework, it is not clear that the risks in transactions where the 
clearing member advanced approaches banking organization does not 
guarantee the performance of the CCP are negligible. Thus, the agencies 
are finalizing the changes to the risk weight for certain client-
cleared transactions as proposed.
    The financial services trade association also noted that the 
proposed changes should apply to the standardized approach contained in 
subpart D of the regulatory capital framework. However, the agencies 
did not seek comment on revisions to the provisions in the standardized 
approach, and banking organizations subject to the standardized 
approach but not to the advanced approaches rule may not have had 
sufficient notice of the change. Therefore, the agencies are not 
adopting the change requested by the commenter, but will consider the 
suggested change in the context of future proposed rulemakings.
B. Margin Period of Risk in the Internal Models Methodology (IMM)
    The regulatory capital framework increases the margin period of 
risk in the IMM for large netting sets, netting sets involving illiquid 
collateral or over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives that cannot easily be 
replaced, or netting sets with more than two margin disputes with the 
counterparty over the previous two quarters that lasted more than the 
margin period of risk.\15\ In the proposed rule, the agencies proposed 
to clarify that a cleared transaction would be exempt from the higher 
margin period of risk solely due to the fact that it is part of a large 
netting set (i.e., a netting set that exceeds 5,000 trades at any time 
during the previous quarter). A cleared transaction would be subject to 
the higher margin period of risk if the netting set contained illiquid 
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derivatives that could not easily be replaced, or the banking 
organization had more than two margin disputes with the counterparty 
over the previous two quarters that lasted more than the margin period 
of risk.
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    \15\ Section 132(d)(5)(iii)(B).
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    The public advocacy nonprofit commenter raised concerns about the 
exemption of cleared transactions that are part of a large netting set 
from the twenty business day margin-period-of-risk requirement. 
However, in the agencies' view, the fact that cleared transactions are 
part of a large netting set should not automatically subject them to a 
higher capital requirement. In order for trades to meet the regulatory 
capital framework's definition of cleared transaction, they must 
involve a CCP, which facilitates trades between counterparties and has 
a proven record of being able to efficiently process a large volume of 
transactions. Furthermore, most types of cleared transactions must meet 
the operational criteria in section 3(a) of the regulatory capital 
framework, including the portability requirement in section 3(a)(4). 
These factors sufficiently mitigate the risk to warrant not applying an 
increased margin-period-of-risk for a netting set of cleared 
transactions solely because of the size of the netting set. In 
addition, this change promotes international regulatory consistency by 
aligning the advanced approaches rule with international standards 
regarding the requirements for netting sets containing 5,000 or more 
cleared transactions. Thus, the agencies are finalizing the changes to 
the margin period of risk in the IMM as proposed.
C. Collateral Posted by a Clearing Member Client Banking Organization 
and a Clearing Member Banking Organization
    The agencies proposed to correct a cross-reference related to the 
calculation of exposure for cleared transactions for clearing member 
banking organizations and for clearing member client banking 
organizations in section 133 of the regulatory capital framework. Prior 
to the proposed change, the provisions for measuring the risk-weighted 
asset amount for posted collateral cross-referenced only to section 131 
of the regulatory capital framework, which contained the provisions for 
risk-weighting wholesale and retail exposures.\16\ Because collateral 
may be in the form of a securitization exposure, equity exposure, or a 
covered position, the proposed change would have replaced the cross-
reference to section 131 with a cross-reference to subparts E and F.
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    \16\ See sections 133(b)(4)(ii) and 133(c)(4)(ii) (rules 
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    The agencies did not receive any comments on this proposed revision 
to the advanced approaches rule, and are adopting it as final. Notably, 
the financial services trade association commenter noted that the 
proposed clarifications should be applied to the standardized approach 
and suggested that the agencies make a corresponding change to section 
35 in subpart D of the regulatory capital framework. However, the 
agencies did not seek comment on revisions to the standardized 
approach, and non-advanced approaches banking organizations subject to 
the standardized approach may not have had sufficient notice of the 
change. Therefore, the agencies are not adopting the change requested 
by the commenter, but will consider the suggested change in the context 
of future proposed rulemakings.

4. Risk Weights for Derivatives

A. Exposure at Default Adjustment for Recognized Credit Valuation 
Adjustment (CVA)
    In calculating risk weights for derivative contracts, banking 
organizations may use the IMM if they receive approval from their 
primary Federal supervisor, or they may use the current exposure 
methodology (CEM). In calculating exposure at default (EAD) for 
derivative contracts under the IMM, a banking organization may reduce 
EAD by the CVA that the banking organization has recognized in the fair 
value of derivative contracts reported on its balance sheet. This 
adjustment reflects the fair value adjustment for counterparty credit 
risk in the valuation of the netting set. Under the regulatory capital 
framework, a banking organization could not make a similar adjustment 
under the CEM.
    In the proposed rule, the agencies proposed to adjust the CEM 
(section 132(c)(1)) to permit an advanced approaches banking 
organization to reduce the EAD by the recognized CVA on the balance 
sheet. The agencies noted that, for purposes of calculating 
standardized total risk-weighted assets as required under section 10 of 
the regulatory capital framework, advanced approaches banking 
organizations would not be permitted to reduce the EAD calculated 
according to the CEM. The agencies did not receive comment on this 
proposed revision to the advanced approaches rule and are adopting it 
as final, with an update in section 132(c)(1) to remove a reference to 
section 132(d) and a technical edit in section 132(c)(2) to also permit 
an adjustment to EAD by the recognized CVA for OTC derivatives subject 
to a qualifying master netting agreement.
    One commenter proposed that the agencies make a corresponding 
change to the standardized approach and permit banking organizations to 
reduce the EAD amount for derivative contracts by recognized CVA. The 
commenter argued that the current treatment under the standardized 
approach double counts the impact of CVA, and noted that the adjustment 
to the standardized approach would more closely align the regulatory 
capital framework with international standards. However, the agencies 
did not seek comment on revisions to the provisions in the standardized 
approach, and non-advanced approaches banking organizations subject to 
the standardized approach may not have had sufficient notice of the 
change. Therefore, the agencies are not adopting the change requested 
by the commenter, but will consider the suggested change in the context 
of future proposed rulemakings.
B. Fair Value of Liabilities due to Changes in the Banking 
Organization's Own Credit Risk
    Section 22 of the regulatory capital framework requires a banking 
organization to adjust its common equity tier 1 capital for changes in 
the fair value of liabilities due to changes in the banking 
organization's own credit risk. The agencies proposed to clarify that, 
for derivative liabilities, an advanced approaches banking organization 
would deduct the difference between its credit spread premium and the 
risk-free rate as part of this adjustment, and not in addition to this 
adjustment.
    The agencies did not receive any comments on this part of the 
proposed rule and are adopting it as final.

5. Requirements and Mechanics Applicable to Banking Organizations That 
Use the Advanced Approaches Rule

    In February 2014 and in March 2015, the OCC and the Board granted 
permission to a number of advanced approaches banking organizations to 
begin calculating their risk-based capital requirements under the 
advanced approaches rule.\17\ During the parallel

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run evaluation process for advanced approaches banking organizations 
that are calculating their risk-based capital requirements under the 
advanced approaches rule, the agencies concluded that several areas of 
the advanced approaches rule should be revised to (1) clarify the 
requirements and mechanics for calculating risk-weighted assets under 
the advanced approaches rule and (2) promote international consistency 
by more clearly aligning the U.S. regulations with international 
standards.
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    \17\ Board Press Releases: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20140221a.htm, http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/20150331a.htm; OCC Press releases: http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2014/nr-ia-2014-21.html, 
http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2015/nr-ia-2015-47.html.
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    Sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory capital framework set forth 
the qualification requirements for the internal ratings-based approach 
(IRB) for advanced approaches banking organizations and describe the 
mechanics for calculating risk-weighted assets for wholesale and retail 
exposures under the advanced approaches rule. When the agencies 
initially adopted the advanced approaches rule in 2007,\18\ they 
incorporated these elements into the supervisory review process rather 
than into the advanced approaches rule. However, the agencies believe 
that certain elements of sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory capital 
framework should be clarified to ensure that advanced approaches 
banking organizations appropriately: (1) Obtain and consider all 
relevant and material information to estimate probability of default 
(PD), loss given default (LGD), and EAD; (2) quantify risk parameters 
for wholesale and retail exposures; and (3) establish internal 
requirements for collateral and risk management processes.
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    \18\ 72 FR 69288 (December 7, 2007).
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    Accordingly, in the proposed rule, the agencies proposed 
incorporating new rule text to add specificity and enhance transparency 
regarding the IRB process and the mechanics used to calculate total 
wholesale and retail risk-weighted assets. More specifically, the 
proposed rule would have amended sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory 
capital framework to clarify requirements associated with: (1) The 
frequency for reviewing risk rating systems, (2) the independence of 
the systems' development, design, and implementation, (3) time horizons 
for default and loss data when estimating risk parameters, (4) changes 
in advanced approaches banking organizations' lending, payment 
processing, and account monitoring practices, (5) the use of all 
relevant available data for assigning risk ratings, and (6) the need 
for internal requirements for collateral management and risk management 
processes. These proposed modifications are consistent with the current 
overarching principles in sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory 
capital framework under which advanced approaches banking organizations 
must have an internal risk rating and segmentation system that 
accurately and reliably differentiates among degrees of credit risk for 
wholesale and retail exposures, and must have a comprehensive risk-
parameter quantification process that produces accurate, timely, and 
reliable risk-parameter estimates. The agencies emphasize that the 
revisions were intended to clarify, but not change, existing 
requirements. In fact, many of these clarifications in subpart E of the 
regulatory capital framework are included in agency supervisory 
guidance and examination materials. Therefore, because they 
demonstrated that they comply with the existing requirements, advanced 
approaches banking organizations that have already exited parallel run 
demonstrated that they met the proposed requirements upon exit. The 
agencies did not receive any comments on this part of the proposed rule 
and are adopting the changes as final, with a technical edit to the 
rule text in section 122(c)(2)(v)(11) to include language that was 
included in the regulatory capital framework but inadvertently omitted 
from the proposed revisions.

6. Technical Corrections

    In addition to the revisions discussed above, the agencies proposed 
to make the following technical corrections:
     In section 131(e)(3)(vi), the rule would have been revised 
to reference section 22(d) and not section 22(a)(7);
     In Table 1 of section 132, the reference in the column 
heading would have been corrected to state that ``Non-sovereign issuers 
risk weight under this section (in percent)'' and ``Sovereign issuers 
risk weight under this section (in percent)'' are found in section 32.
     In section 132(d)(7)(iv)(B), the agencies would have 
revised the rule to reference section 132(b)(2) and not section 
131(b)(2);
     In section 132(d)(9)(ii), the agencies would have revised 
the rule to reference section 132(e)(6) and not section 132(e)(3);
     In section 133(b)(3)(i)(B), the agencies would have 
revised the rule to reference section 133(b)(3)(i)(A) and not section 
132(b)(3)(i)(A); and
     In section 136(e)(2)(i) and 136(e)(2)(ii), the agencies 
would have revised the rule to reference section 136(e)(1) and (e)(2) 
and not section 135(e)(1) and (e)(2).
    No comments were received on the above proposed technical 
corrections. The agencies are finalizing these changes as proposed and 
are correcting an additional internal cross-reference error in section 
132 that was identified after the publication of the proposed rule. 
Specifically, the agencies are amending section 132(d)(2)(iv)(C) to 
replace the reference to paragraph (d)(5) with the correct reference to 
paragraph (d)(6).
    In addition, the FDIC has added a clarification of its prior 
Federal Register instructions regarding the regulatory capital 
framework. In its amendatory rule text, the FDIC is clarifying for 
Federal Register publication purposes a certain paragraph of its prompt 
corrective action (PCA) rules in 12 CFR 324.403(b). The FDIC has 
provided this clarification to ensure that its PCA rules, as published 
in the Federal Register, are identical to the current PCA rules of the 
Board and the OCC.

IV. Regulatory Analyses

A. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)

    In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3521) (PRA), the agencies may not conduct or 
sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, an information 
collection unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) control number. The agencies did not receive any 
comments on the proposed rule related to PRA. The agencies reviewed the 
final rule and determined that it would not introduce any new 
collection of information pursuant to the PRA.

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis

    OCC: The Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq. (RFA), 
requires an agency, in connection with a final rule, to prepare a Final 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis describing the impact of the final rule 
on small entities, or to certify that the final rule would not have a 
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. 
For purposes of the RFA, the Small Business Administration (SBA) 
defines small entities as those with $550 million or less in assets for 
commercial banks and savings institutions, and $38.5 million or less in 
assets for trust companies.
    As described in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of the 
preamble, the final rule would apply only to advanced approaches 
banking organizations. No OCC-supervised advanced approaches banking 
organization qualifies as a small

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entity as defined by the SBA. Therefore, the OCC certifies that the 
final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial 
number of OCC-supervised small entities.
    FDIC: The RFA requires an agency, in connection with a notice of 
final rulemaking, to prepare a Final Regulatory Flexibility Act 
analysis describing the impact of the rule on small entities (defined 
by the SBA for purposes of the RFA to include banking entities with 
total assets of $550 million or less) or to certify that the final rule 
will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of 
small entities.
    Using the SBA's size standards, as of March 31, 2015, the FDIC 
supervised 3,407 small entities. As described in the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section of the preamble, however, the final rule applies 
only to advanced approaches banking organizations. Advanced approaches 
banking organization is defined to include a state nonmember bank or a 
state savings association that has, or is a subsidiary of, a bank 
holding company or savings and loan holding company that has total 
consolidated assets of $250 billion or more, total consolidated on-
balance sheet foreign exposure of $10 billion or more, or that has 
elected to use the advanced approaches framework. As of March 31, 2015, 
based on a $550 million threshold, zero (out of 3,119) small state 
nonmember banks and zero (out of 288) small state savings associations 
were under the advanced approaches rule. Therefore, the FDIC does not 
believe that the final rule results in a significant economic impact on 
a substantial number of small entities under its supervisory 
jurisdiction.
    The FDIC certifies that the final rule does not have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small FDIC-supervised 
institutions.
    Board: The Board is providing a final regulatory flexibility 
analysis with respect to this final rule. As discussed above, this 
final rule would clarify, correct, and update aspects of the agencies' 
regulatory capital framework applicable to banking organizations that 
are subject to the advanced approaches rule. The revisions are largely 
driven by observations made by the agencies during the parallel run 
review process of advanced approaches banking organizations as well as 
a recent assessment of the regulatory capital framework.
    Under regulations issued by the SBA, a small entity includes a 
depository institution, bank holding company, or savings and loan 
holding company with total assets of $550 million or less (a small 
banking organization).\19\ As of March 31, 2015, there were 
approximately 631 small state member banks. As of December 31, 2014, 
there were approximately 3,833 small bank holding companies and 271 
small savings and loan holding companies.
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    \19\ See 13 CFR 121.201. Effective July 14, 2014, the Small 
Business Administration revised the size standards for banking 
organizations to $550 million in assets from $500 million in assets. 
79 FR 33647 (June 12, 2014).
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    The final rule applies only to advanced approaches banking 
organizations, which, generally, are banking organizations with total 
consolidated assets of $250 billion or more, that have total 
consolidated on-balance sheet foreign exposure of $10 billion or more, 
are a subsidiary of an advanced approaches depository institution, or 
that elect to use the advanced approaches rule. Currently, no small 
top-tier bank holding company, top-tier savings and loan holding 
company, or state member bank is an advanced approaches banking 
organization, so there would be no additional projected compliance 
requirements imposed on small bank holding companies, savings and loan 
holding companies, or state member banks. The Board expects that any 
small bank holding company, savings and loan holding company, or state 
member bank that would be covered by this final rule would rely on its 
parent banking organization for compliance and would not bear 
additional costs.
    The Board is aware of no other Federal rules that duplicate, 
overlap, or conflict with the final rule. The Board believes that the 
final rule will not have a significant economic impact on small banking 
organizations supervised by the Board and therefore believes that there 
are no significant alternatives to the final rule that would reduce the 
economic impact on small banking organizations supervised by the Board.

C. OCC Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 Determination

    The OCC analyzed the final rule under the factors set forth in the 
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA) (2 U.S.C. 1532). Under this 
analysis, the OCC considered whether the final rule includes a Federal 
mandate that may result in the expenditure by State, local, and Tribal 
governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of $100 
million or more in any one year ($143 million adjusted for inflation).
    The final rule includes clarifications, corrections, and updates 
for certain aspects of the agencies' regulatory capital framework 
applicable to national banks and Federal savings associations subject 
to the OCC's advanced approaches rule.
    Because the final rule is designed to clarify, correct, and update 
existing rules, and does not introduce any new requirements, the OCC 
has determined that it would not result in expenditures by State, 
local, and Tribal governments, or by the private sector, of $143 
million or more.

D. Plain Language

    Section 722 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires the Federal 
banking agencies to use plain language in all proposed and final rules 
published after January 1, 2000. The agencies have sought to present 
the final rule in a simple and straightforward manner, and did not 
receive any comments on the use of plain language.

List of Subjects

12 CFR Part 3

    Administrative practice and procedure, Capital, National banks, 
Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Risk.

12 CFR Part 217

    Administrative practice and procedure, Banks, Banking, Capital, 
Federal Reserve System, Holding companies, Reporting and recordkeeping 
requirements, Securities.

12 CFR Part 324

    Administrative practice and procedure, Banks, Banking, Capital 
Adequacy, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Savings 
associations, State non-member banks.

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

12 CFR Chapter I

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons set forth in the common preamble and under the 
authority of 12 U.S.C. 93a, 1462, 1462a, 1463, 1464, 3907, 3909, 1831o, 
and 5412(b)(2)(B), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency amends 
part 3 of chapter I of title 12, Code of Federal Regulations as 
follows:

PART 3--CAPITAL ADEQUACY STANDARDS

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1. The authority citation for part 3 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  12 U.S.C. 93a, 161, 1462, 1462a, 1463, 1464, 1818, 
1828(n), 1828 note, 1831n note, 1835, 3907, 3909, and 5412(b)(2)(B).


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2. Section 3.2 is amended by revising the definition of ``Residential 
mortgage exposure'' to read as follows:


Sec.  3.2  Definitions.

* * * * *
    Residential mortgage exposure means an exposure (other than a 
securitization exposure, equity exposure, statutory multifamily 
mortgage, or presold construction loan):
    (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on 
one-to-four family residential property; or
    (ii) With an original and outstanding amount of $1 million or less 
that is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on residential 
property that is not one-to-four family; and
    (2) For purposes of calculating capital requirements under subpart 
E of this part, managed as part of a segment of exposures with 
homogeneous risk characteristics and not on an individual-exposure 
basis.
* * * * *


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3. Section 3.10 is amended by revising paragraph (c) introductory text 
to read as follows:


Sec.  3.10  Minimum capital requirements.

* * * * *
    (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio calculations. An advanced 
approaches national bank or Federal savings association that has 
completed the parallel run process and received notification from the 
OCC pursuant to Sec.  3.121(d) must determine its regulatory capital 
ratios as described in paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this section. 
An advanced approaches national bank or Federal savings association 
must determine its supplementary leverage ratio in accordance with 
paragraph (c)(4) of this section, beginning with the calendar quarter 
immediately following the quarter in which the national bank or Federal 
savings association meets any of the criteria in Sec.  3.100(b)(1).
* * * * *


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4. Section 3.22 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  3.22  Regulatory capital adjustments and deductions.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (iii) A national bank or Federal savings association must deduct 
any net gain and add any net loss related to changes in the fair value 
of liabilities that are due to changes in the national bank's or 
Federal savings association's own credit risk. An advanced approaches 
national bank or Federal savings association must deduct the difference 
between its credit spread premium and the risk-free rate for 
derivatives that are liabilities as part of this adjustment.
* * * * *
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5. Section 3.100 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(1)(ii) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  3.100  Purpose, applicability, and principle of conservatism.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (ii) Has consolidated total on-balance sheet foreign exposure on 
its most recent year-end Federal Financial Institutions Examination 
Council (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion or more (where total 
on-balance sheet foreign exposure equals total foreign countries cross-
border claims on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign countries 
claims on local residents on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign 
countries fair value of foreign exchange and derivative products), 
calculated in accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country Exposure Report;
* * * * *

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6. Section 3.122 is amended by:
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a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and (b)(1);
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b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);
0
c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5) and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);
0
d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and (10) as paragraphs (c)(10) and 
(11), revising newly redesignated paragraphs (c)(10) and (11), and 
adding a new paragraph (c)(9); and
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e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  3.122  Qualification requirements.

    (a) * * *
    (3) Each national bank or Federal savings association must have an 
appropriate infrastructure with risk measurement and management 
processes that meet the qualification requirements of this section and 
are appropriate given the national bank's or Federal savings 
association's size and level of complexity. Regardless of whether the 
systems and models that generate the risk parameters necessary for 
calculating a national bank's or Federal savings association's risk-
based capital requirements are located at any affiliate of the national 
bank or Federal savings association, the national bank or Federal 
savings association itself must ensure that the risk parameters and 
reference data used to determine its risk-based capital requirements 
are representative of long run experience with respect to its own 
credit risk and operational risk exposures.
    (b) Risk rating and segmentation systems for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1)(i) A national bank or Federal savings association must 
have an internal risk rating and segmentation system that accurately, 
reliably, and meaningfully differentiates among degrees of credit risk 
for the national bank's or Federal savings association's wholesale and 
retail exposures. When assigning an internal risk rating, a national 
bank or Federal savings association may consider a third-party 
assessment of credit risk, provided that the national bank's or Federal 
savings association's internal risk rating assignment does not rely 
solely on the external assessment.
    (ii) If a national bank or Federal savings association uses 
multiple rating or segmentation systems, the national bank's or Federal 
savings association's rationale for assigning an obligor or exposure to 
a particular system must be documented and applied in a manner that 
best reflects the obligor's or exposure's level of risk. A national 
bank or Federal savings association must not inappropriately allocate 
obligors or exposures across systems to minimize regulatory capital 
requirements.
    (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale obligors and exposures, 
including loss severity ratings grades to wholesale exposures, and 
assigning retail exposures to retail segments, a national bank or 
Federal savings association must use all relevant and material 
information and ensure that the information is current.
    (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD rating or retail exposure to 
a PD segment, a national bank or Federal savings association must 
assess the obligor or retail borrower's ability and willingness to 
contractually perform, taking a conservative view of projected 
information.
    (2) * * *
    (iii) A national bank or Federal savings association must have an 
effective process to obtain and update in a timely manner relevant and 
material information on obligor and exposure characteristics that 
affect PD, LGD and EAD.
    (3) For retail exposures:
    (i) A national bank or Federal savings association must have an 
internal system that groups retail exposures into the appropriate 
retail exposure subcategory and groups the retail exposures in each 
retail exposure subcategory into separate segments with homogeneous 
risk characteristics that provide a meaningful differentiation of risk. 
The national bank's or Federal

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savings association's system must identify and group in separate 
segments by subcategories exposures identified in Sec.  3.131(c)(2)(ii) 
and (iii).
    (ii) A national bank or Federal savings association must have an 
internal system that captures all relevant exposure risk 
characteristics, including borrower credit score, product and 
collateral types, as well as exposure delinquencies, and must consider 
cross-collateral provisions, where present.
    (iii) The national bank or Federal savings association must review 
and, if appropriate, update assignments of individual retail exposures 
to segments and the loss characteristics and delinquency status of each 
identified risk segment. These reviews must occur whenever the national 
bank or Federal savings association receives new material information, 
but generally no less frequently than quarterly, and, in all cases, at 
least annually.
* * * * *
    (5) The national bank's or Federal savings association's internal 
risk rating system for wholesale exposures must provide for the review 
and update (as appropriate) of each obligor rating and (if applicable) 
each loss severity rating whenever the national bank or Federal savings 
association obtains relevant and material information on the obligor or 
exposure that affects PD, LGD and EAD, but no less frequently than 
annually.
    (c) Quantification of risk parameters for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1) The national bank or Federal savings association must 
have a comprehensive risk parameter quantification process that 
produces accurate, timely, and reliable estimates of the risk 
parameters on a consistent basis for the national bank's or Federal 
savings association's wholesale and retail exposures.
    (2) A national bank's or Federal savings association's estimates of 
PD, LGD, and EAD must incorporate all relevant, material, and available 
data that is reflective of the national bank's or Federal savings 
association's actual wholesale and retail exposures and of sufficient 
quality to support the determination of risk-based capital requirements 
for the exposures. In particular, the population of exposures in the 
data used for estimation purposes, the lending standards in use when 
the data were generated, and other relevant characteristics, should 
closely match or be comparable to the national bank's or Federal 
savings association's exposures and standards. In addition, a national 
bank or Federal savings association must:
    (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are representative of long run 
experience, including periods of economic downturn conditions, whether 
internal or external data are used;
    (ii) Take into account any changes in lending practice or the 
process for pursuing recoveries over the observation period;
    (iii) Promptly reflect technical advances, new data, and other 
information as they become available;
    (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to estimate risk parameters 
support the accuracy and robustness of those estimates; and
    (v) Demonstrate that its estimation technique performs well in out-
of-sample tests whenever possible.
* * * * *
    (5) The national bank or Federal savings association must be able 
to demonstrate which variables have been found to be statistically 
significant with regard to EAD. The national bank's or Federal savings 
association's EAD estimates must reflect its specific policies and 
strategies with regard to account management, including account 
monitoring and payment processing, and its ability and willingness to 
prevent further drawdowns in circumstances short of payment default. 
The national bank or Federal savings association must have adequate 
systems and procedures in place to monitor current outstanding amounts 
against committed lines, and changes in outstanding amounts per obligor 
and obligor rating grade and per retail segment. The national bank or 
Federal savings association must be able to monitor outstanding amounts 
on a daily basis.
    (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for wholesale obligors and retail 
segments must be based on at least five years of default data. LGD 
estimates for wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years 
of loss severity data, and LGD estimates for retail segments must be 
based on at least five years of loss severity data. EAD estimates for 
wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years of exposure 
amount data, and EAD estimates for retail segments must be based on at 
least five years of exposure amount data. If the national bank or 
Federal savings association has relevant and material reference data 
that span a longer period of time than the minimum time periods 
specified above, the national bank or Federal savings association must 
incorporate such data in its estimates, provided that it does not place 
undue weight on periods of favorable or benign economic conditions 
relative to periods of economic downturn conditions.
* * * * *
    (9) If a national bank or Federal savings association uses internal 
data obtained prior to becoming subject to this subpart E or external 
data to arrive at PD, LGD, or EAD estimates, the national bank or 
Federal savings association must demonstrate to the OCC that the 
national bank or Federal savings association has made appropriate 
adjustments if necessary to be consistent with the definition of 
default in Sec.  3.101. Internal data obtained after the national bank 
or Federal savings association becomes subject to this subpart E must 
be consistent with the definition of default in Sec.  3.101.
    (10) The national bank or Federal savings association must review 
and update (as appropriate) its risk parameters and its risk parameter 
quantification process at least annually.
    (11) The national bank or Federal savings association must, at 
least annually, conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of 
reference data to determine relevance of the reference data to the 
national bank's or Federal savings association's exposures, quality of 
reference data to support PD, LGD, and EAD estimates, and consistency 
of reference data to the definition of default in Sec.  3.101.
* * * * *
    (i) * * *
    (5) The national bank or Federal savings association must have an 
internal audit function or equivalent function that is independent of 
business-line management that at least annually:
    (i) Reviews the national bank's or Federal savings association's 
advanced systems and associated operations, including the operations of 
its credit function and estimations of PD, LGD, and EAD;
    (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the controls supporting the 
national bank's or Federal savings association's advanced systems; and
    (iii) Documents and reports its findings to the national bank's or 
Federal savings association's board of directors (or a committee 
thereof).
* * * * *

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7. Section 3.131 is amended by:
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a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and (iii); and
0
b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing ``Sec.  3.22(a)(7)'' and adding 
``Sec.  3.22(d)'' in its place.
    The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  3.131  Mechanics for calculating total wholesale and retail risk-
weighted assets.

* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *

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    (ii) A national bank or Federal savings association may take into 
account the risk reducing effects of guarantees and credit derivatives 
in support of retail exposures in a segment when quantifying the PD and 
LGD of the segment. In doing so, a national bank or Federal savings 
association must consider all relevant available information.
    (iii) Except as provided in paragraph (d)(6) of this section, a 
national bank or Federal savings association may take into account the 
risk reducing effects of collateral in support of a wholesale exposure 
when quantifying the LGD of the exposure, and may take into account the 
risk reducing effects of collateral in support of retail exposures when 
quantifying the PD and LGD of the segment. In order to do so, a 
national bank or Federal savings association must have established 
internal requirements for collateral management, legal certainty, and 
risk management processes.
* * * * *

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8. Section 3.132 is amended by:
0
a. In Table 1 to Sec.  3.132, removing ``this section'' and adding 
``Sec.  3.32'' in its place, wherever it appears;
0
b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2) and (d)(5)(iii)(B);
0
c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing ``(d)(5)'' and adding 
``(d)(6)'' in its place;
0
d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing ``Sec.  3.131(b)(2)'' and 
adding ``Sec.  3.132(b)(2)'' in its place; and
0
d. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing ``paragraph (e)(3)'' and adding 
``paragraph (e)(6)'' in its place.
    The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  3.132  Counterparty credit risk of repo-style transactions, 
eligible margin loans, and OTC derivative contracts.

* * * * *
    (c) EAD for OTC derivative contracts--(1) OTC derivative contracts 
not subject to a qualifying master netting agreement. A national bank 
or Federal savings association must determine the EAD for an OTC 
derivative contract that is not subject to a qualifying master netting 
agreement using the current exposure methodology in paragraph (c)(5) of 
this section or using the internal models methodology described in 
paragraph (d) of this section. A national bank or Federal savings 
association may reduce the EAD calculated according to paragraph (c)(5) 
of this section by the credit valuation adjustment that the national 
bank or Federal savings association has recognized in its balance sheet 
valuation of any OTC derivative contracts in the netting set. For 
purposes of this paragraph (c)(1), the credit valuation adjustment does 
not include any adjustments to common equity tier 1 capital 
attributable to changes in the fair value of the national bank's or 
Federal savings association's liabilities that are due to changes in 
its own credit risk since the inception of the transaction with the 
counterparty.
    (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to a qualifying master netting 
agreement. A national bank or Federal savings association must 
determine the EAD for multiple OTC derivative contracts that are 
subject to a qualifying master netting agreement using the current 
exposure methodology in paragraph (c)(6) of this section or using the 
internal models methodology described in paragraph (d) of this section. 
A national bank or Federal savings association may reduce the EAD 
calculated according to paragraph (c)(6) of this section by the credit 
valuation adjustment that the national bank or Federal savings 
association has recognized in its balance sheet valuation of any OTC 
derivative contracts in the netting set. For purposes of this paragraph 
(c)(2), the credit valuation adjustment does not include any 
adjustments to common equity tier 1 capital attributable to changes in 
the fair value of the national bank's or Federal savings association's 
liabilities that are due to changes in its own credit risk since the 
inception of the transaction with the counterparty.
* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (iii) * * *
    (B) Twenty business days if the number of trades in a netting set 
exceeds 5,000 at any time during the previous quarter (except if the 
national bank or Federal savings association is calculating EAD for a 
cleared transaction under Sec.  3.133) or contains one or more trades 
involving illiquid collateral or any derivative contract that cannot be 
easily replaced. If over the two previous quarters more than two margin 
disputes on a netting set have occurred that lasted more than the 
margin period of risk, then the national bank or Federal savings 
association must use a margin period of risk for that netting set that 
is at least two times the minimum margin period of risk for that 
netting set. If the periodicity of the receipt of collateral is N-days, 
the minimum margin period of risk is the minimum margin period of risk 
under this paragraph (d) plus N minus 1. This period should be extended 
to cover any impediments to prompt re-hedging of any market risk.
* * * * *

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9. Section 3.133 is amended by:
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a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B) removing ``Sec.  3.132(b)(3)(i)(A)'' and 
adding paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section'' in its place;
0
b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  3.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place;
0
c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and
0
d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  3.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place.
    The addition reads as follows:


Sec.  3.133  Cleared transactions.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this 
section, a clearing member national bank or Federal savings association 
may apply a risk weight of 0 percent to the trade exposure amount for a 
cleared transaction with a CCP where the clearing member national bank 
or Federal savings association is acting as a financial intermediary on 
behalf of a clearing member client, the transaction offsets another 
transaction that satisfies the requirements set forth in Sec.  3.3(a), 
and the clearing member national bank or Federal savings association is 
not obligated to reimburse the clearing member client in the event of 
the CCP default.
* * * * *


Sec.  3.136  [Amended]

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10. Section 3.136 is amended by:
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a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i), removing ``Sec.  3.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)'' 
and adding ``paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section'' in its place: 
And
0
b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii), removing ``Sec. Sec.  3.135(e)(1) and 
(e)(2)'' and adding ``paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section'' in 
its place.

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11. Section 3.172 is amended by revising paragraph (d) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  3.172  Disclosure requirements.

* * * * *
    (d)(1) A national bank or Federal savings association that meets 
any of the criteria in Sec.  3.100(b)(1) before January 1, 2015, must 
publicly disclose each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the 
components thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage 
exposure) as calculated under subpart B of this part, beginning with 
the first quarter in 2015. This disclosure requirement applies without 
regard to whether the national bank or Federal savings association has 
completed the parallel run process and received notification from the 
OCC pursuant to Sec.  3.121(d).
    (2) A national bank or Federal savings association that meets any 
of the criteria

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in Sec.  3.100(b)(1) on or after January 1, 2015, must publicly 
disclose each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the 
components thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage 
exposure) as calculated under subpart B of this part beginning with the 
calendar quarter immediately following the quarter in which the 
national bank or Federal savings association becomes an advanced 
approaches national bank or Federal savings association. This 
disclosure requirement applies without regard to whether the national 
bank or Federal savings association has completed the parallel run 
process and has received notification from the OCC pursuant to Sec.  
3.121(d).

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12. Section 3.173 is amended by:
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a. Redesignating paragraph (a) introductory text as paragraph (a)(1) 
and revising newly redesignated paragraph (a)(1);
0
b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3);
0
c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table 6 to Sec.  3.173; and
0
d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table 9 to Sec.  3.173.
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  3.173  Disclosures by certain advanced approaches national banks 
or Federal savings associations.

    (a)(1) An advanced approaches national bank or Federal savings 
association described in Sec.  3.172(b) must make the disclosures 
described in Tables 1 through 12 to Sec.  3.173.
    (2) An advanced approaches national bank or Federal savings 
association that is required to publicly disclose its supplementary 
leverage ratio pursuant to Sec.  3.172(d) must make the disclosures 
required under Table 13 to Sec.  3.173, unless the national bank or 
Federal savings association is a consolidated subsidiary of a bank 
holding company, savings and loan holding company, or depository 
institution that is subject to these disclosures requirements or a 
subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking organization that is subject to 
comparable public disclosure requirements in its home jurisdiction.
    (3) The disclosures described in Tables 1 through 12 to Sec.  3.173 
must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive quarters 
beginning on January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as applicable, for 
the quarters after the national bank or Federal savings association has 
completed the parallel run process and received notification from the 
OCC pursuant to Sec.  3.121(d). The disclosures described in Table 13 
to Sec.  3.173 must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive 
quarters beginning on January 1, 2015, or a shorter period, as 
applicable, for the quarters after the national bank or Federal savings 
association becomes subject to the disclosure of the supplementary 
leverage ratio pursuant to Sec.  3.172(d) and Sec.  3.173(a)(2).
* * * * *

Table 6 to Sec.   3.173--Credit Risk: Disclosures for Portfolios Subject
                    to IRB Risk-Based Capital Formula
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Qualitative disclosures         (a)                    * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                           ...............  (1) Structure of internal
                                             rating systems and if the
                                             national bank or Federal
                                             savings association
                                             considers external ratings,
                                             the relation between
                                             internal and external
                                             ratings;
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

                 Table 9 to Sec.   3.173--Securitization
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                              * * * * * * *
Quantitative Disclosures.......  ...............  ......................
 
                              * * * * * * *
                                            (i)   * * *
                                                  (2) Aggregate amount
                                                   disclosed separately
                                                   by type of underlying
                                                   exposure in the pool
                                                   of any:
                                                  (i) After-tax gain-on-
                                                   sale on a
                                                   securitization that
                                                   has been deducted
                                                   from common equity
                                                   tier 1 capital: And
                                                  (ii) Credit-enhancing
                                                   interest-only strip
                                                   that is assigned a
                                                   1,250 percent risk
                                                   weight.
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

12 CFR CHAPTER II

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons set forth in the common preamble, part 217 of 
chapter II of title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as 
follows:

PART 217--CAPITAL ADEQUACY OF BANK HOLDING COMPANIES, SAVINGS AND 
LOAN HOLDING COMPANIES, AND STATE MEMBER BANKS (REGULATION Q)

0
13. The authority citation for part 217 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 12 U.S.C. 248(a), 321-338a, 481-486, 1462a, 1467a, 
1818, 1828, 1831n, 1831o, 1831p-l, 1831w, 1835, 1844(b), 1851, 3904, 
3906-3909, 4808, 5365, 5368, 5371.


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14. Section 217.2 is amended by revising the definition of 
``Residential mortgage exposure'' to read as follows:


Sec.  217.2  Definitions.

* * * * *
    Residential mortgage exposure means an exposure (other than a 
securitization exposure, equity exposure, statutory multifamily 
mortgage, or presold construction loan):

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    (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on 
one-to-four family residential property; or
    (ii) With an original and outstanding amount of $1 million or less 
that is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on residential 
property that is not one-to-four family; and
    (2) For purposes of calculating capital requirements under subpart 
E of this part, managed as part of a segment of exposures with 
homogeneous risk characteristics and not on an individual-exposure 
basis.
* * * * *

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15. Section 217.10 is amended by revising paragraph (c) introductory 
text to read as follows:


Sec.  217.10  Minimum capital requirements.

* * * * *
    (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio calculations. An advanced 
approaches Board-regulated institution that has completed the parallel 
run process and received notification from the Board pursuant to Sec.  
217.121(d) must determine its regulatory capital ratios as described in 
paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this section. An advanced approaches 
Board-regulated institution must determine its supplementary leverage 
ratio in accordance with paragraph (c)(4) of this section, beginning 
with the calendar quarter immediately following the quarter in which 
the Board-regulated institution meets any of the criteria in Sec.  
217.100(b)(1).
* * * * *

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16. Section 217.22 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read 
as follows:


Sec.  217.22  Regulatory capital adjustments and deductions.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (iii) A Board-regulated institution must deduct any net gain and 
add any net loss related to changes in the fair value of liabilities 
that are due to changes in the Board-regulated institution's own credit 
risk. An advanced approaches Board-regulated institution must deduct 
the difference between its credit spread premium and the risk-free rate 
for derivatives that are liabilities as part of this adjustment.
* * * * *

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17. Section 217.100 is amended by revising paragraphs (b)(1)(i)(B)(2) 
and (b)(1)(ii)(B) to read as follows:


Sec.  217.100  Purpose, applicability, and principle of conservatism.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (i) * * *
    (B) * * *
    (2) Has consolidated total on-balance sheet foreign exposure on its 
most recent year-end Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 
(FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion or more (where total on-balance 
sheet foreign exposure equals total foreign countries cross-border 
claims on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign countries claims 
on local residents on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign 
countries fair value of foreign exchange and derivative products), 
calculated in accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country Exposure Report;
* * * * *
    (ii) * * *
    (B) Has consolidated total on-balance sheet foreign exposure on its 
most recent year-end Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 
(FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion or more (where total on-balance 
sheet foreign exposure equals total foreign countries cross-border 
claims on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign countries claims 
on local residents on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign 
countries fair value of foreign exchange and derivative products), 
calculated in accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country Exposure Report;
* * * * *

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18. Section 217.122 is amended by:
0
a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and (b)(1);
0
b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);
0
c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5) and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);
0
d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and (10) as paragraphs (c)(10) and 
(11), revising newly redesignated paragraphs (c)(10) and (11), and 
adding a new paragraph (c)(9); and
0
e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  217.122  Qualification requirements.

    (a) * * *
    (3) Each Board-regulated institution must have an appropriate 
infrastructure with risk measurement and management processes that meet 
the qualification requirements of this section and are appropriate 
given the Board-regulated institution's size and level of complexity. 
Regardless of whether the systems and models that generate the risk 
parameters necessary for calculating a Board-regulated institution's 
risk-based capital requirements are located at any affiliate of the 
Board-regulated institution, the Board-regulated institution itself 
must ensure that the risk parameters and reference data used to 
determine its risk-based capital requirements are representative of 
long run experience with respect to its own credit risk and operational 
risk exposures.
    (b) Risk rating and segmentation systems for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1)(i) A Board-regulated institution must have an internal 
risk rating and segmentation system that accurately, reliably, and 
meaningfully differentiates among degrees of credit risk for the Board-
regulated institution's wholesale and retail exposures. When assigning 
an internal risk rating, a Board-regulated institution may consider a 
third-party assessment of credit risk, provided that the Board-
regulated institution's internal risk rating assignment does not rely 
solely on the external assessment.
    (ii) If a Board-regulated institution uses multiple rating or 
segmentation systems, the Board-regulated institution's rationale for 
assigning an obligor or exposure to a particular system must be 
documented and applied in a manner that best reflects the obligor or 
exposure's level of risk. A Board-regulated institution must not 
inappropriately allocate obligors or exposures across systems to 
minimize regulatory capital requirements.
    (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale obligors and exposures, 
including loss severity ratings grades to wholesale exposures, and 
assigning retail exposures to retail segments, a Board-regulated 
institution must use all relevant and material information and ensure 
that the information is current.
    (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD rating or retail exposure to 
a PD segment, a Board-regulated institution must assess the obligor or 
retail borrower's ability and willingness to contractually perform, 
taking a conservative view of projected information.
    (2) * * *
    (iii) A Board-regulated institution must have an effective process 
to obtain and update in a timely manner relevant and material 
information on obligor and exposure characteristics that affect PD, LGD 
and EAD.
    (3) For retail exposures:
    (i) A Board-regulated institution must have an internal system that 
groups retail exposures into the appropriate retail exposure 
subcategory and groups the retail exposures in each retail exposure 
subcategory into separate segments with homogeneous risk 
characteristics that provide a meaningful differentiation of risk. The 
Board-regulated institution's system must identify and group in 
separate

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segments by subcategories exposures identified in Sec.  
217.131(c)(2)(ii) and (iii).
    (ii) A Board-regulated institution must have an internal system 
that captures all relevant exposure risk characteristics, including 
borrower credit score, product and collateral types, as well as 
exposure delinquencies, and must consider cross-collateral provisions, 
where present.
    (iii) The Board-regulated institution must review and, if 
appropriate, update assignments of individual retail exposures to 
segments and the loss characteristics and delinquency status of each 
identified risk segment. These reviews must occur whenever the Board-
regulated institution receives new material information, but generally 
no less frequently than quarterly, and, in all cases, at least 
annually.
* * * * *
    (5) The Board-regulated institution's internal risk rating system 
for wholesale exposures must provide for the review and update (as 
appropriate) of each obligor rating and (if applicable) each loss 
severity rating whenever the Board-regulated institution obtains 
relevant and material information on the obligor or exposure that 
affects PD, LGD and EAD, but no less frequently than annually.
    (c) Quantification of risk parameters for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1) The Board-regulated institution must have a 
comprehensive risk parameter quantification process that produces 
accurate, timely, and reliable estimates of the risk parameters on a 
consistent basis for the Board-regulated institution's wholesale and 
retail exposures.
    (2) A Board-regulated institution's estimates of PD, LGD, and EAD 
must incorporate all relevant, material, and available data that is 
reflective of the Board-regulated institution's actual wholesale and 
retail exposures and of sufficient quality to support the determination 
of risk-based capital requirements for the exposures. In particular, 
the population of exposures in the data used for estimation purposes, 
the lending standards in use when the data were generated, and other 
relevant characteristics, should closely match or be comparable to the 
Board-regulated institution's exposures and standards. In addition, a 
Board-regulated institution must:
    (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are representative of long run 
experience, including periods of economic downturn conditions, whether 
internal or external data are used;
    (ii) Take into account any changes in lending practice or the 
process for pursuing recoveries over the observation period;
    (iii) Promptly reflect technical advances, new data, and other 
information as they become available;
    (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to estimate risk parameters 
support the accuracy and robustness of those estimates; and
    (v) Demonstrate that its estimation technique performs well in out-
of-sample tests whenever possible.
* * * * *
    (5) The Board-regulated institution must be able to demonstrate 
which variables have been found to be statistically significant with 
regard to EAD. The Board-regulated institution's EAD estimates must 
reflect its specific policies and strategies with regard to account 
management, including account monitoring and payment processing, and 
its ability and willingness to prevent further drawdowns in 
circumstances short of payment default. The Board-regulated institution 
must have adequate systems and procedures in place to monitor current 
outstanding amounts against committed lines, and changes in outstanding 
amounts per obligor and obligor rating grade and per retail segment. 
The Board-regulated institution must be able to monitor outstanding 
amounts on a daily basis.
    (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for wholesale obligors and retail 
segments must be based on at least five years of default data. LGD 
estimates for wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years 
of loss severity data, and LGD estimates for retail segments must be 
based on at least five years of loss severity data. EAD estimates for 
wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years of exposure 
amount data, and EAD estimates for retail segments must be based on at 
least five years of exposure amount data. If the Board-regulated 
institution has relevant and material reference data that span a longer 
period of time than the minimum time periods specified above, the 
Board-regulated institution must incorporate such data in its 
estimates, provided that it does not place undue weight on periods of 
favorable or benign economic conditions relative to periods of economic 
downturn conditions.
* * * * *
    (9) If a Board-regulated institution uses internal data obtained 
prior to becoming subject to this subpart E or external data to arrive 
at PD, LGD, or EAD estimates, the Board-regulated institution must 
demonstrate to the Board that the Board-regulated institution has made 
appropriate adjustments if necessary to be consistent with the 
definition of default in Sec.  217.101. Internal data obtained after 
the Board-regulated institution becomes subject to this subpart E must 
be consistent with the definition of default in Sec.  217.101.
    (10) The Board-regulated institution must review and update (as 
appropriate) its risk parameters and its risk parameter quantification 
process at least annually.
    (11) The Board-regulated institution must, at least annually, 
conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of reference data to 
determine relevance of the reference data to the Board-regulated 
institution's exposures, quality of reference data to support PD, LGD, 
and EAD estimates, and consistency of reference data to the definition 
of default in Sec.  217.101.
* * * * *
    (i) * * *
    (5) The Board-regulated institution must have an internal audit 
function or equivalent function that is independent of business-line 
management that at least annually:
    (i) Reviews the Board-regulated institution's advanced systems and 
associated operations, including the operations of its credit function 
and estimations of PD, LGD, and EAD;
    (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the controls supporting the 
Board-regulated institution's advanced systems; and
    (iii) Documents and reports its findings to the Board-regulated 
institution's board of directors (or a committee thereof).
* * * * *

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19. Section 217.131 is amended by:
0
a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and (iii); and
0
b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing ``Sec.  217.22(a)(7)'' and adding 
``Sec.  217.22(d)'' in its place.
    The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  217.131  Mechanics for calculating total wholesale and retail 
risk-weighted assets.

* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (ii) A Board-regulated institution may take into account the risk 
reducing effects of guarantees and credit derivatives in support of 
retail exposures in a segment when quantifying the PD and LGD of the 
segment. In doing so, a Board-regulated institution must consider all 
relevant available information.
    (iii) Except as provided in paragraph (d)(6) of this section, a 
Board-regulated institution may take into account the risk reducing 
effects of collateral in support of a wholesale exposure when 
quantifying the LGD of the exposure, and may take into account the risk

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reducing effects of collateral in support of retail exposures when 
quantifying the PD and LGD of the segment. In order to do so, a Board-
regulated institution must have established internal requirements for 
collateral management, legal certainty, and risk management processes.
* * * * *

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20. Section 217.132 is amended by:
0
a. In Table 1 to Sec.  217.132, removing ``this section'' and adding 
``Sec.  217.32'' in its place, wherever it appears;
0
b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2) and (d)(5)(iii)(B);
0
c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing ``(d)(5)'' and adding 
``(d)(6)'' in its place;
0
d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing ``Sec.  217.131(b)(2)'' and 
adding ``Sec.  217.132(b)(2)'' in its place; and
0
e. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing ``paragraph (e)(3)'' and adding 
``paragraph (e)(6)'' in its place. The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  217.132  Counterparty credit risk of repo-style transactions, 
eligible margin loans, and OTC derivative contracts.

* * * * *
    (c) EAD for OTC derivative contracts--(1) OTC derivative contracts 
not subject to a qualifying master netting agreement. A Board-regulated 
institution must determine the EAD for an OTC derivative contract that 
is not subject to a qualifying master netting agreement using the 
current exposure methodology in paragraph (c)(5) of this section or 
using the internal models methodology described in paragraph (d) of 
this section. A Board-regulated institution may reduce the EAD 
calculated according to paragraph (c)(5) of this section by the credit 
valuation adjustment that the Board-regulated institution has 
recognized in its balance sheet valuation of any OTC derivative 
contracts in the netting set. For purposes of this paragraph (c)(1), 
the credit valuation adjustment does not include any adjustments to 
common equity tier 1 capital attributable to changes in the fair value 
of the Board-regulated institution's liabilities that are due to 
changes in its own credit risk since the inception of the transaction 
with the counterparty.
    (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to a qualifying master netting 
agreement. A Board-regulated institution must determine the EAD for 
multiple OTC derivative contracts that are subject to a qualifying 
master netting agreement using the current exposure methodology in 
paragraph (c)(6) of this section or using the internal models 
methodology described in paragraph (d) of this section. A Board-
regulated institution may reduce the EAD calculated according to 
paragraph (c)(6) of this section by the credit valuation adjustment 
that the Board-regulated institution has recognized in its balance 
sheet valuation of any OTC derivative contracts in the netting set. For 
purposes of this paragraph (c)(2), the credit valuation adjustment does 
not include any adjustments to common equity tier 1 capital 
attributable to changes in the fair value of the Board-regulated 
institution's liabilities that are due to changes in its own credit 
risk since the inception of the transaction with the counterparty.
* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (iii) * * *
    (B) Twenty business days if the number of trades in a netting set 
exceeds 5,000 at any time during the previous quarter (except if the 
Board-regulated institution is calculating EAD for a cleared 
transaction under Sec.  217.133) or contains one or more trades 
involving illiquid collateral or any derivative contract that cannot be 
easily replaced. If over the two previous quarters more than two margin 
disputes on a netting set have occurred that lasted more than the 
margin period of risk, then the Board-regulated institution must use a 
margin period of risk for that netting set that is at least two times 
the minimum margin period of risk for that netting set. If the 
periodicity of the receipt of collateral is N-days, the minimum margin 
period of risk is the minimum margin period of risk under this 
paragraph (d) plus N minus 1. This period should be extended to cover 
any impediments to prompt re-hedging of any market risk.
* * * * *

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21. Section 217.133 is amended by:
0
a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B) removing ``Sec.  217.132(b)(3)(i)(A)'' and 
adding paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section'' in its place;
0
b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  217.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place;
0
c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and
0
d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  217.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place.
    The addition read as follows:


Sec.  217.133  Cleared transactions.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this 
section, a clearing member Board-regulated institution may apply a risk 
weight of 0 percent to the trade exposure amount for a cleared 
transaction with a CCP where the clearing member Board-regulated 
institution is acting as a financial intermediary on behalf of a 
clearing member client, the transaction offsets another transaction 
that satisfies the requirements set forth in Sec.  217.3(a), and the 
clearing member Board-regulated institution is not obligated to 
reimburse the clearing member client in the event of the CCP default.
* * * * *


Sec.  217.136  [Amended]

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22. Section 217.136 is amended by:
0
a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i), removing ``Sec.  217.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)'' 
and adding ``paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section'' in its place; 
and
0
b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii), removing ``Sec. Sec.  217.135(e)(1) and 
(e)(2)'' and adding ``paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this section'' in 
its place.

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23. Section 217.172 is amended by revising paragraph (d) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  217.172  Disclosure requirements.

* * * * *
    (d)(1) A Board-regulated institution that meets any of the criteria 
in Sec.  217.100(b)(1) before January 1, 2015, must publicly disclose 
each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the components 
thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage exposure) as 
calculated under subpart B of this part, beginning with the first 
quarter in 2015. This disclosure requirement applies without regard to 
whether the Board-regulated institution has completed the parallel run 
process and received notification from the Board pursuant to Sec.  
217.121(d).
    (2) A Board-regulated institution that meets any of the criteria in 
Sec.  217.100(b)(1) on or after January 1, 2015, must publicly disclose 
each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the components 
thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage exposure) as 
calculated under subpart B of this part beginning with the calendar 
quarter immediately following the quarter in which the Board-regulated 
institution becomes an advanced approaches Board-regulated institution. 
This disclosure requirement applies without regard to whether the 
Board-regulated institution has completed the parallel run process and 
has received notification from the Board pursuant to Sec.  217.121(d).

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24. Section 217.173 is amended by:
0
a. Designating paragraph (a) introductory text as paragraph (a)(1) and 
revising newly redesignated paragraph (a)(1);

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0
b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (3);
0
c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table 6 to Sec.  217.173; and
0
d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table 9 to Sec.  217.173.
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  217.173  Disclosures by certain advanced approaches Board-
regulated institutions.

    (a)(1) An advanced approaches Board-regulated institution described 
in Sec.  217.172(b) must make the disclosures described in Tables 1 
through 12 to Sec.  217.173.
    (2) An advanced approaches Board-regulated institution that is 
required to publicly disclose its supplementary leverage ratio pursuant 
to Sec.  217.172(d) must make the disclosures required under Table 13 
to Sec.  217.173, unless the Board-regulated institution is a 
consolidated subsidiary of a bank holding company, savings and loan 
holding company, or depository institution that is subject to these 
disclosures requirements or a subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking 
organization that is subject to comparable public disclosure 
requirements in its home jurisdiction.
    (3) The disclosures described in Tables 1 through 12 to Sec.  
217.173 must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive quarters 
beginning on January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as applicable, for 
the quarters after the Board-regulated institution has completed the 
parallel run process and received notification from the Board pursuant 
to Sec.  217.121(d). The disclosures described in Table 13 to Sec.  
217.173 must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive quarters 
beginning on January 1, 2015, or a shorter period, as applicable, for 
the quarters after the Board-regulated institution becomes subject to 
the disclosure of the supplementary leverage ratio pursuant to Sec.  
217.172(d) and Sec.  217.173(a)(2).
* * * * *

   Table 6 to Sec.   217.173--Credit Risk: Disclosures for Portfolios
                Subject to IRB Risk-Based Capital Formula
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Qualitative disclosures         (a)                    * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                            (1) Structure of internal
                                             rating systems and if the
                                             Board-regulated institution
                                             considers external ratings,
                                             the relation between
                                             internal and external
                                             ratings;
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

                Table 9 to Sec.   217.173--Securitization
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                              * * * * * * *
Quantitative disclosures.......
 
                              * * * * * * *
                                            (i)   * * *
                                                  (2) Aggregate amount
                                                   disclosed separately
                                                   by type of underlying
                                                   exposure in the pool
                                                   of any:
                                                  (i) After-tax gain-on-
                                                   sale on a
                                                   securitization that
                                                   has been deducted
                                                   from common equity
                                                   tier 1 capital; and
                                                  (ii) Credit-enhancing
                                                   interest-only strip
                                                   that is assigned a
                                                   1,250 percent risk
                                                   weight.
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

12 CFR Chapter III

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation amends part 324 of chapter III of Title 12, Code 
of Federal Regulations as follows:

PART 324--CAPITAL ADEQUACY

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25. The authority citation for part 324 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1815(a), 1815(b), 1816, 1818(a), 1818(b), 
1818(c), 1818(t), 1819(Tenth), 1828(c), 1828(d), 1828(i), 1828(n), 
1828(o), 1831o, 1835, 3907, 3909, 4808; 5371; 5412; Pub. L. 102-233, 
105 Stat. 1761, 1789, 1790 (12 U.S.C. 1831n note); Pub. L. 102-242, 
105 Stat. 2236, 2355, as amended by Pub. L. 103-325, 108 Stat. 2160, 
2233 (12 U.S.C. 1828 note); Pub. L. 102-242, 105 Stat. 2236, 2386, 
as amended by Pub. L. 102-550, 106 Stat. 3672, 4089 (12 U.S.C. 1828 
note); Pub. L. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, 1887 (15 U.S.C. 78o-7 note).


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26. Section 324.2 is amended by revising the definition of 
``Residential mortgage exposure'' to read as follows:


Sec.  324.2  Definitions.

* * * * *
    Residential mortgage exposure means an exposure (other than a 
securitization exposure, equity exposure, statutory multifamily 
mortgage, or presold construction loan):
    (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on 
one-to-four family residential property; or
    (ii) With an original and outstanding amount of $1 million or less 
that is primarily secured by a first or subsequent lien on residential 
property that is not one-to-four family; and
    (2) For purposes of calculating capital requirements under subpart 
E of this part, managed as part of a segment of exposures with 
homogeneous risk characteristics and not on an individual-exposure 
basis.
* * * * *

0
27. Section 324.10 is amended by revising paragraph (c) introductory 
text to read as follows:


Sec.  324.10  Minimum capital requirements.

* * * * *
    (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio calculations. An advanced 
approaches FDIC-supervised institution that has

[[Page 41423]]

completed the parallel run process and received notification from the 
FDIC pursuant to Sec.  324.121(d) must determine its regulatory capital 
ratios as described in paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this section. 
An advanced approaches FDIC-supervised institution must determine its 
supplementary leverage ratio in accordance with paragraph (c)(4) of 
this section, beginning with the calendar quarter immediately following 
the quarter in which the FDIC-supervised institution meets any of the 
criteria in Sec.  324.100(b)(1).
* * * * *

0
28. Section 324.22 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read 
as follows:


Sec.  324.22  Regulatory capital adjustments and deductions.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (iii) An FDIC-supervised institution must deduct any net gain and 
add any net loss related to changes in the fair value of liabilities 
that are due to changes in the FDIC-supervised institution's own credit 
risk. An advanced approaches FDIC-supervised institution must deduct 
the difference between its credit spread premium and the risk-free rate 
for derivatives that are liabilities as part of this adjustment.
* * * * *

0
29. Section 324.100 is amended by revising paragraph (b)(1)(ii) to read 
as follows:


Sec.  324.100  Purpose, applicability, and principle of conservatism.

* * * * *
    (b) * * *
    (1) * * *
    (ii) Has consolidated total on-balance sheet foreign exposure on 
its most recent year-end Federal Financial Institutions Examination 
Council (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion or more (where total 
on-balance sheet foreign exposure equals total foreign countries cross-
border claims on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign countries 
claims on local residents on an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign 
countries fair value of foreign exchange and derivative products), 
calculated in accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country Exposure Report;
* * * * *

0
30. Section 324.122 is amended by:
0
a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and (b)(1);
0
b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);
0
c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5), and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);
0
d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and (c)(10) as paragraphs (c)(10) 
and (c)(11), revising newly redesignated paragraphs (c)(10) and 
(c)(11), and adding a new paragraph (c)(9); and
0
e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  324.122  Qualification requirements.

    (a) * * *
    (3) Each FDIC-supervised institution must have an appropriate 
infrastructure with risk measurement and management processes that meet 
the qualification requirements of this section and are appropriate 
given the FDIC-supervised institution's size and level of complexity. 
Regardless of whether the systems and models that generate the risk 
parameters necessary for calculating an FDIC-supervised institution's 
risk-based capital requirements are located at any affiliate of the 
FDIC-supervised institution, the FDIC-supervised institution itself 
must ensure that the risk parameters and reference data used to 
determine its risk-based capital requirements are representative of 
long run experience with respect to its own credit risk and operational 
risk exposures.
    (b) Risk rating and segmentation systems for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1)(i) An FDIC-supervised institution must have an internal 
risk rating and segmentation system that accurately, reliably, and 
meaningfully differentiates among degrees of credit risk for the FDIC-
supervised institution's wholesale and retail exposures. When assigning 
an internal risk rating, an FDIC-supervised institution may consider a 
third-party assessment of credit risk, provided that the FDIC-
supervised institution's internal risk rating assignment does not rely 
solely on the external assessment.
    (ii) If an FDIC-supervised institution uses multiple rating or 
segmentation systems, the FDIC-supervised institution's rationale for 
assigning an obligor or exposure to a particular system must be 
documented and applied in a manner that best reflects the obligor or 
exposure's level of risk. An FDIC-supervised institution must not 
inappropriately allocate obligors or exposures across systems to 
minimize regulatory capital requirements.
    (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale obligors and exposures, 
including loss severity ratings grades to wholesale exposures, and 
assigning retail exposures to retail segments, an FDIC-supervised 
institution must use all relevant and material information and ensure 
that the information is current.
    (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD rating or retail exposure to 
a PD segment, an FDIC-supervised institution must assess the obligor or 
retail borrower's ability and willingness to contractually perform, 
taking a conservative view of projected information.
    (2) * * *
    (iii) An FDIC-supervised institution must have an effective process 
to obtain and update in a timely manner relevant and material 
information on obligor and exposure characteristics that affect PD, LGD 
and EAD.
    (3) For retail exposures:
    (i) An FDIC-supervised institution must have an internal system 
that groups retail exposures into the appropriate retail exposure 
subcategory and groups the retail exposures in each retail exposure 
subcategory into separate segments with homogeneous risk 
characteristics that provide a meaningful differentiation of risk. The 
FDIC-supervised institution's system must identify and group in 
separate segments by subcategories exposures identified in Sec.  
324.131(c)(2)(ii) and (iii).
    (ii) An FDIC-supervised institution must have an internal system 
that captures all relevant exposure risk characteristics, including 
borrower credit score, product and collateral types, as well as 
exposure delinquencies, and must consider cross-collateral provisions, 
where present.
    (iii) The FDIC-supervised institution must review and, if 
appropriate, update assignments of individual retail exposures to 
segments and the loss characteristics and delinquency status of each 
identified risk segment. These reviews must occur whenever the FDIC-
supervised institution receives new material information, but generally 
no less frequently than quarterly, and, in all cases, at least 
annually.
* * * * *
    (5) The FDIC-supervised institution's internal risk rating system 
for wholesale exposures must provide for the review and update (as 
appropriate) of each obligor rating and (if applicable) each loss 
severity rating whenever the FDIC-supervised institution obtains 
relevant and material information on the obligor or exposure that 
affects PD, LGD and EAD, but no less frequently than annually.
    (c) Quantification of risk parameters for wholesale and retail 
exposures. (1) The FDIC-supervised institution must have a 
comprehensive risk parameter quantification process that produces 
accurate, timely, and reliable estimates of the risk parameters on a 
consistent basis for the FDIC-supervised institution's wholesale and 
retail exposures.
    (2) An FDIC-supervised institution's estimates of PD, LGD, and EAD 
must

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incorporate all relevant, material, and available data that is 
reflective of the FDIC-supervised institution's actual wholesale and 
retail exposures and of sufficient quality to support the determination 
of risk-based capital requirements for the exposures. In particular, 
the population of exposures in the data used for estimation purposes, 
the lending standards in use when the data were generated, and other 
relevant characteristics, should closely match or be comparable to the 
FDIC-supervised institution's exposures and standards. In addition, an 
FDIC-supervised institution must:
    (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are representative of long run 
experience, including periods of economic downturn conditions, whether 
internal or external data are used;
    (ii) Take into account any changes in lending practice or the 
process for pursuing recoveries over the observation period;
    (iii) Promptly reflect technical advances, new data, and other 
information as they become available;
    (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to estimate risk parameters 
support the accuracy and robustness of those estimates; and
    (v) Demonstrate that its estimation technique performs well in out-
of-sample tests whenever possible.
* * * * *
    (5) The FDIC-supervised institution must be able to demonstrate 
which variables have been found to be statistically significant with 
regard to EAD. The FDIC-supervised institution's EAD estimates must 
reflect its specific policies and strategies with regard to account 
management, including account monitoring and payment processing, and 
its ability and willingness to prevent further drawdowns in 
circumstances short of payment default. The FDIC-supervised institution 
must have adequate systems and procedures in place to monitor current 
outstanding amounts against committed lines, and changes in outstanding 
amounts per obligor and obligor rating grade and per retail segment. 
The FDIC-supervised institution must be able to monitor outstanding 
amounts on a daily basis.
    (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for wholesale obligors and retail 
segments must be based on at least five years of default data. LGD 
estimates for wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years 
of loss severity data, and LGD estimates for retail segments must be 
based on at least five years of loss severity data. EAD estimates for 
wholesale exposures must be based on at least seven years of exposure 
amount data, and EAD estimates for retail segments must be based on at 
least five years of exposure amount data. If the FDIC-supervised 
institution has relevant and material reference data that span a longer 
period of time than the minimum time periods specified above, the FDIC-
supervised institution must incorporate such data in its estimates, 
provided that it does not place undue weight on periods of favorable or 
benign economic conditions relative to periods of economic downturn 
conditions.
* * * * *
    (9) If an FDIC-supervised institution uses internal data obtained 
prior to becoming subject to this subpart E or external data to arrive 
at PD, LGD, or EAD estimates, the FDIC-supervised institution must 
demonstrate to the FDIC that the FDIC-supervised institution has made 
appropriate adjustments if necessary to be consistent with the 
definition of default in Sec.  324.101. Internal data obtained after 
the FDIC-supervised institution becomes subject to this subpart E must 
be consistent with the definition of default in Sec.  324.101.
    (10) The FDIC-supervised institution must review and update (as 
appropriate) its risk parameters and its risk parameter quantification 
process at least annually.
    (11) The FDIC-supervised institution must, at least annually, 
conduct a comprehensive review and analysis of reference data to 
determine relevance of the reference data to the FDIC-supervised 
institution's exposures, quality of reference data to support PD, LGD, 
and EAD estimates, and consistency of reference data to the definition 
of default in Sec.  324.101.
* * * * *
    (i) * * *
    (5) The FDIC-supervised institution must have an internal audit 
function or equivalent function that is independent of business-line 
management that at least annually:
    (i) Reviews the FDIC-supervised institution's advanced systems and 
associated operations, including the operations of its credit function 
and estimations of PD, LGD, and EAD;
    (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the controls supporting the 
FDIC-supervised institution's advanced systems; and
    (iii) Documents and reports its findings to the FDIC-supervised 
institution's board of directors (or a committee thereof).
* * * * *
0
31. Section 324.131 is amended by:
0
a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and (iii); and
0
b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing ``Sec.  324.22(a)(7)'' and adding 
``Sec.  324.22(d)'' in its place.
    The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  324.131  Mechanics for calculating total wholesale and retail 
risk-weighted assets.

* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (ii) An FDIC-supervised institution may take into account the risk 
reducing effects of guarantees and credit derivatives in support of 
retail exposures in a segment when quantifying the PD and LGD of the 
segment. In doing so, an FDIC-supervised institution must consider all 
relevant available information.
    (iii) Except as provided in paragraph (d)(6) of this section, an 
FDIC-supervised institution may take into account the risk reducing 
effects of collateral in support of a wholesale exposure when 
quantifying the LGD of the exposure, and may take into account the risk 
reducing effects of collateral in support of retail exposures when 
quantifying the PD and LGD of the segment. In order to do so, an FDIC-
supervised institution must have established internal requirements for 
collateral management, legal certainty, and risk management processes.
* * * * *
0
32. Section 324.132 is amended by:
0
a. In Table 1 to Sec.  324.132, removing ``this section'' and adding 
``Sec.  324.32'' in its place, wherever it appears;
0
b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2) and (d)(5)(iii)(B);
0
c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing ``(d)(5)'' and adding 
``(d)(6)'' in its place;
0
d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing ``Sec.  324.131(b)(2)'' and 
adding ``Sec.  324.132(b)(2)'' in its place; and
0
e. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing ``paragraph (e)(3)'' and adding 
``paragraph (e)(6)'' in its place.
    The revisions read as follows:


Sec.  324.132  Counterparty credit risk of repo-style transactions, 
eligible margin loans, and OTC derivative contracts.

* * * * *
    (c) EAD for OTC derivative contracts--(1) OTC derivative contracts 
not subject to a qualifying master netting agreement. An FDIC-
supervised institution must determine the EAD for an OTC derivative 
contract that is not subject to a qualifying master netting agreement 
using the current exposure methodology in paragraph (c)(5) of this 
section or using the internal models methodology described in paragraph 
(d) of this section. An FDIC-supervised institution may reduce the EAD 
calculated according to paragraph (c)(5)

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of this section by the credit valuation adjustment that the FDIC-
supervised institution has recognized in its balance sheet valuation of 
any OTC derivative contracts in the netting set. For purposes of this 
paragraph (c)(1), the credit valuation adjustment does not include any 
adjustments to common equity tier 1 capital attributable to changes in 
the fair value of the FDIC-supervised institution's liabilities that 
are due to changes in its own credit risk since the inception of the 
transaction with the counterparty.
    (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to a qualifying master netting 
agreement. An FDIC-supervised institution must determine the EAD for 
multiple OTC derivative contracts that are subject to a qualifying 
master netting agreement using the current exposure methodology in 
paragraph (c)(6) of this section or using the internal models 
methodology described in paragraph (d) of this section. An FDIC-
supervised institution may reduce the EAD calculated according to 
paragraph (c)(6) of this section by the credit valuation adjustment 
that the FDIC-supervised institution has recognized in its balance 
sheet valuation of any OTC derivative contracts in the netting set. For 
purposes of this paragraph (c)(2), the credit valuation adjustment does 
not include any adjustments to common equity tier 1 capital 
attributable to changes in the fair value of the FDIC-supervised 
institution's liabilities that are due to changes in its own credit 
risk since the inception of the transaction with the counterparty.
* * * * *
    (d) * * *
    (5) * * *
    (iii) * * *
    (B) Twenty business days if the number of trades in a netting set 
exceeds 5,000 at any time during the previous quarter (except if the 
FDIC-supervised institution is calculating EAD for a cleared 
transaction under Sec.  324.133) or contains one or more trades 
involving illiquid collateral or any derivative contract that cannot be 
easily replaced. If over the two previous quarters more than two margin 
disputes on a netting set have occurred that lasted more than the 
margin period of risk, then the FDIC-supervised institution must use a 
margin period of risk for that netting set that is at least two times 
the minimum margin period of risk for that netting set. If the 
periodicity of the receipt of collateral is N-days, the minimum margin 
period of risk is the minimum margin period of risk under this 
paragraph (d) plus N minus 1. This period should be extended to cover 
any impediments to prompt re-hedging of any market risk.
* * * * *

0
33. Section 324.133 is amended by:
0
a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B), removing ``Sec.  324.132(b)(3)(i)(A)'' 
and adding ``paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section'' in its place;
0
b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  324.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place;
0
c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and
0
d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing ``Sec.  324.131'' and adding 
``subparts E or F of this part, as applicable'' in its place.
    The additions read as follows:


Sec.  324.133  Cleared transactions.

* * * * *
    (c) * * *
    (3) * * *
    (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this 
section, a clearing member FDIC-supervised institution may apply a risk 
weight of 0 percent to the trade exposure amount for a cleared 
transaction with a CCP where the clearing member FDIC-supervised 
institution is acting as a financial intermediary on behalf of a 
clearing member client, the transaction offsets another transaction 
that satisfies the requirements set forth in Sec.  324.3(a), and the 
clearing member FDIC-supervised institution is not obligated to 
reimburse the clearing member client in the event of the CCP default.
* * * * *

0
34. Section 324.136 is amended by,
0
a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i) removing ``Sec.  324.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)'' 
and adding paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2) of this section'' in its place; 
and
0
b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii) removing ``Sec. Sec.  324.135(e)(1) and 
(e)(2)'' and adding paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2)'' of this section in 
its place.

0
35. Section 324.172 is amended by revising paragraph (d) to read as 
follows:


Sec.  324.172  Disclosure requirements.

* * * * *
    (d)(1) An FDIC-supervised institution that meets any of the 
criteria in Sec.  324.100(b)(1) before January 1, 2015, must publicly 
disclose each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the 
components thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage 
exposure) as calculated under subpart B of this part, beginning with 
the first quarter in 2015. This disclosure requirement applies without 
regard to whether the FDIC-supervised institution has completed the 
parallel run process and received notification from the FDIC pursuant 
to Sec.  324.121(d).
    (2) An FDIC-supervised institution that meets any of the criteria 
in Sec.  324.100(b)(1) on or after January 1, 2015, must publicly 
disclose each quarter its supplementary leverage ratio and the 
components thereof (that is, tier 1 capital and total leverage 
exposure) as calculated under subpart B of this part beginning with the 
calendar quarter immediately following the quarter in which the FDIC-
supervised institution becomes an advanced approaches FDIC-supervised 
institution. This disclosure requirement applies without regard to 
whether the FDIC-supervised institution has completed the parallel run 
process and has received notification from the FDIC pursuant to Sec.  
324.121(d).

0
36. Section 324.173 is amended by:
0
a. Designating paragraph (a) as paragraph (a)(1) and revising newly 
redesignated paragraph (a)(1);
0
b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (3);
0
c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table 6 to Sec.  324.173; and
0
d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table 9 in Sec.  324.173.
    The revisions and additions read as follows:


Sec.  324.173  Disclosures by certain advanced approaches FDIC-
supervised institutions.

    (a)(1) An advanced approaches FDIC-supervised institution described 
in Sec.  324.172(b) must make the disclosures described in Tables 1 
through 12 to Sec.  324.173.
    (2) An advanced approaches FDIC-supervised institution that is 
required to publicly disclose its supplementary leverage ratio pursuant 
to Sec.  324.172(d) must make the disclosures required under Table 13 
to Sec.  324.173, unless the FDIC-supervised institution is a 
consolidated subsidiary of a bank holding company, savings and loan 
holding company, or depository institution that is subject to these 
disclosures requirements or a subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking 
organization that is subject to comparable public disclosure 
requirements in its home jurisdiction.
    (3) The disclosures described in Tables 1 through 12 to Sec.  
324.173 must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive quarters 
beginning on January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as applicable, for 
the quarters after the FDIC-supervised institution has completed the 
parallel run process and received notification from the FDIC pursuant 
to Sec.  324.121(d). The disclosures described in Table 13 to Sec.  
324.173 must be made publicly available for twelve consecutive quarters 
beginning on January 1, 2015, or a shorter period, as applicable, for 
the quarters after the FDIC-supervised

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institution becomes subject to the disclosure of the supplementary 
leverage ratio pursuant to Sec.  324.172(d) and Sec.  324.173(a)(2).
* * * * *

   Table 6 to Sec.   324.173--Credit Risk: Disclosures for Portfolios
                Subject to IRB Risk-Based Capital Formula
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Qualitative disclosures         (a)                    * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                            (1) Structure of internal
                                             rating systems and if the
                                             FDIC-supervised institution
                                             considers external ratings,
                                             the relation between
                                             internal and external
                                             ratings;
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

                Table 9 to Sec.   324.173--Securitization
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
                              * * * * * * *
Quantitative Disclosures.
 
                              * * * * * * *
                                      (i)   * * *
                                            (2) Aggregate amount
                                             disclosed separately by
                                             type of underlying exposure
                                             in the pool of any:
                                            (i) After-tax gain-on-sale
                                             on a securitization that
                                             has been deducted from
                                             common equity tier 1
                                             capital; and
                                            (ii) Credit-enhancing
                                             interest-only strip that is
                                             assigned a 1,250 percent
                                             risk weight.
 
                              * * * * * * *
------------------------------------------------------------------------

* * * * *

0
37. Section 324.403(b) is revised to read as follows:


Sec.  324.403  Capital measures and capital category definitions.

    * * *
    (b) Capital categories. For purposes of section 38 of the FDI Act 
and this subpart, an FDIC-supervised institution shall be deemed to be:
    (1) ``Well capitalized'' if it:
    (i) Has a total risk-based capital ratio of 10.0 percent or 
greater; and
    (ii) Has a Tier 1 risk-based capital ratio of 8.0 percent or 
greater; and
    (iii) Has a common equity tier 1 capital ratio of 6.5 percent or 
greater; and
    (iv) Has a leverage ratio of 5.0 percent or greater;
    (v) Is not subject to any written agreement, order, capital 
directive, or prompt corrective action directive issued by the FDIC 
pursuant to section 8 of the FDI Act (12 U.S.C. 1818), the 
International Lending Supervision Act of 1983 (12 U.S.C. 3907), or the 
Home Owners' Loan Act (12 U.S.C. 1464(t)(6)(A)(ii)), or section 38 of 
the FDI Act (12 U.S.C. 1831o), or any regulation thereunder, to meet 
and maintain a specific capital level for any capital measure; and
    (vi) Beginning on January 1, 2018 and thereafter, an FDIC-
supervised institution that is a subsidiary of a covered BHC will be 
deemed to be well capitalized if the FDIC-supervised institution 
satisfies paragraphs (b)(1)(i) through (v) of this section and has a 
supplementary leverage ratio of 6.0 percent or greater. For purposes of 
this paragraph, a covered BHC means a U.S. top-tier bank holding 
company with more than $700 billion in total assets as reported on the 
company's most recent Consolidated Financial Statement for Bank Holding 
Companies (FR Y-9C) or more than $10 trillion in assets under custody 
as reported on the company's most recent Banking Organization Systemic 
Risk Report (FR Y-15).
* * * * *

    Dated: June 16, 2015.
Thomas J. Curry,
Comptroller of the Currency.
    By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, June 15, 2015.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Secretary of the Board.
    Dated at Washington, DC, this 16th day of June, 2015.

By order of the Board of Directors.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Robert E. Feldman,
Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2015-15748 Filed 7-14-15; 8:45 am]
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                                                This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER                     process of advanced approaches                        I. Background
                                                contains regulatory documents having general             banking organizations. The corrections                   In 2013, the Office of the Comptroller
                                                applicability and legal effect, most of which            also enhance consistency of the
                                                are keyed to and codified in the Code of                                                                       of the Currency (OCC), the Board of
                                                                                                         agencies’ advanced approaches risk-                   Governors of the Federal Reserve
                                                Federal Regulations, which is published under            based capital rule with relevant
                                                50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.                                                                          System (Board), and the Federal Deposit
                                                                                                         international standards. The agencies                 Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
                                                The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by               proposed these changes in a notice of                 (collectively, the agencies)
                                                the Superintendent of Documents. Prices of               proposed rulemaking that was                          comprehensively revised and
                                                new books are listed in the first FEDERAL                published in the Federal Register on                  strengthened the capital requirements
                                                REGISTER issue of each week.                             December 18, 2014. The agencies are                   applicable to banking organizations 1
                                                                                                         now adopting the proposed rule as final               (regulatory capital framework).2 Among
                                                                                                         with some additional clarifications and               other changes, the regulatory capital
                                                DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY                                   amendments.                                           framework revised elements of the
                                                                                                         DATES: This rule is effective on October              advanced approaches risk-based capital
                                                Office of the Comptroller of the                         1, 2015.
                                                Currency                                                                                                       rule (advanced approaches rule) now
                                                                                                         FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:                      located at subpart E of the agencies’
                                                                                                            OCC: Margot Schwadron, Senior Risk                 revised regulatory capital framework.3
                                                12 CFR Part 3                                            Expert (202) 649–6982; or Mark                           The advanced approaches rule applies
                                                [Docket ID OCC–2014–0025]                                Ginsberg, Principal Risk Expert (202)                 to large, internationally active banking
                                                                                                         649–6983, Capital Policy; or Kevin                    organizations, generally those with $250
                                                RIN 1557–AD88
                                                                                                         Korzeniewski, Senior Attorney,                        billion or more in total consolidated
                                                FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM                                   Legislative and Regulatory Activities                 assets or $10 billion or more in total on-
                                                                                                         Division, (202) 649–5490, for persons                 balance sheet foreign exposure,
                                                12 CFR Part 217                                          who are deaf or hard of hearing, TTY,                 depository institution subsidiaries of
                                                                                                         (202) 649–5597, Office of the                         those banking organizations that use the
                                                [Regulation Q; Docket No. R–1502]                        Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th                  advanced approaches rule, and banking
                                                RIN 7100–AE 24                                           Street SW., Washington, DC 20219.                     organizations that elect to use the
                                                                                                            Board: Constance M. Horsley,                       advanced approaches rule (advanced
                                                FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE                                Assistant Director, (202) 452–5239; Juan              approaches banking organizations).4
                                                CORPORATION                                              Climent, Manager, (202) 872–7546;                     Before an advanced approaches banking
                                                                                                         Andrew Willis, Supervisory Financial                  organization may use the advanced
                                                12 CFR Part 324                                          Analyst, (202) 912–4323, Matthew                      approaches rule to determine its risk-
                                                                                                         McQueeney, Senior Financial Analyst,                  based capital requirements, it must
                                                RIN 3064–AE12                                            (202) 425–2942, or Justyna Milewski,
                                                                                                                                                               conduct a satisfactory parallel run.5
                                                                                                         Senior Financial Analyst, (202) 452–
                                                Regulatory Capital Rules: Regulatory                                                                           After the primary Federal supervisor
                                                                                                         3607, Capital and Regulatory Policy,
                                                Capital, Final Revisions Applicable to                                                                         determines that the banking
                                                                                                         Division of Banking Supervision and
                                                Banking Organizations Subject to the                                                                           organization fully complies with all the
                                                                                                         Regulation; or Christine Graham,
                                                Advanced Approaches Risk-Based                                                                                 qualification requirements, has
                                                                                                         Counsel (202) 452–3005; or David W.
                                                Capital Rule                                                                                                   conducted a satisfactory parallel run,
                                                                                                         Alexander, Counsel (202) 452–2877,
                                                                                                                                                               and has an adequate process to ensure
                                                AGENCIES: Office of the Comptroller of                   Legal Division, Board of Governors of
                                                                                                                                                               ongoing compliance, the banking
                                                the Currency, Treasury; the Board of                     the Federal Reserve System, 20th and C
                                                Governors of the Federal Reserve                         Streets NW., Washington, DC 20551. For                   1 The term banking organizations includes

                                                System; and the Federal Deposit                          the hearing impaired only,                            national banks, state member banks, state
                                                Insurance Corporation.                                   Telecommunication Device for the Deaf                 nonmember banks, savings associations, and top-
                                                                                                         (TDD), (202) 263–4869.                                tier bank holding companies domiciled in the
                                                ACTION: Final rule.                                                                                            United States not subject to the Board’s Small Bank
                                                                                                            FDIC: Bobby R. Bean, Associate
                                                                                                                                                               Holding Company Policy Statement (12 CFR part
                                                SUMMARY:   The Office of the Comptroller                 Director, bbean@fdic.gov; Ryan                        225, appendix C), as well as top-tier savings and
                                                of the Currency (OCC), the Board of                      Billingsley, Chief, Capital Policy                    loan holding companies domiciled in the United
                                                Governors of the Federal Reserve                         Section, rbillingsley@fdic.gov; or                    States, except for certain savings and loan holding
                                                                                                         Benedetto Bosco, Capital Markets Policy               companies that are substantially engaged in
                                                System (Board), and the Federal Deposit                                                                        insurance underwriting or commercial activities.
                                                Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are                         Analyst, bbosco@fdic.gov; Capital                        2 The Board and the OCC issued a joint final rule

                                                adopting a final rule to clarify, correct,               Markets Branch, Division of Risk                      on October 11, 2013 (78 FR 62018) and the FDIC
                                                and update aspects of the regulatory                     Management Supervision, (202) 898–                    issued a substantially identical interim final rule on
                                                                                                         6888; or Michael Phillips, Counsel,                   September 10, 2013 (78 FR 55340). In April 2014,
                                                capital framework applicable to certain                                                                        the FDIC adopted the interim final rule as a final
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                                                large, internationally active banking                    mphillips@fdic.gov; Rachel Ackmann,                   rule with no substantive changes. 79 FR 20754
                                                organizations. The revisions correct                     Senior Attorney, rackmann@fdic.gov;                   (April 14, 2014).
                                                technical and typographical errors and                   Supervision Branch, Legal Division,                      3 12 CFR part 3 (OCC), 12 CFR part 217 (Board),


                                                clarify certain requirements of the                      Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation,                and 12 CFR part 324 (FDIC).
                                                                                                                                                                  4 12 CFR 3.100(b)(1) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.100(b)(1)
                                                advanced approaches risk-based capital                   550 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
                                                                                                                                                               (Board), and 12 CFR 324.100(b)(1) (FDIC).
                                                rule based on observations made by the                   20429.                                                   5 12 CFR 3.121(c) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.121(c)

                                                agencies during the parallel run review                  SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                            (Board), and 12 CFR 324.121(c) (FDIC).



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                                                organization will be required to use the                 generous. In addition, the public                     2. Disclosure Requirements
                                                advanced approaches rule to calculate                    advocacy nonprofit organization
                                                                                                                                                               A. Disclosure Requirements for
                                                its risk-based capital requirements.6                    disagreed with the proposed exemption
                                                   An advanced approaches banking                                                                              Advanced Approaches Banking
                                                                                                         for cleared transactions from the higher              Organizations
                                                organization that is required to calculate               capital charge applicable to large
                                                its risk-based capital requirements                      nettings sets.                                           Section 173 of the regulatory capital
                                                under the advanced approaches rule                                                                             framework requires advanced
                                                also must determine its risk-based                       III. Overview of the Final Rule                       approaches banking organizations that
                                                capital requirements under the                                                                                 have completed the parallel run process
                                                                                                         1. Definitions and Applicability
                                                standardized approach in subpart D of                                                                          to provide qualitative and quantitative
                                                the agencies’ regulatory capital                         A. Definition of Residential Mortgage                 disclosures relating to their capital
                                                framework.7 In accordance with section                   Exposure                                              requirements. The proposed rule would
                                                171 of the Dodd-Frank Act, the lower                                                                           have clarified two items related to
                                                ratio (i.e., the more binding ratio) for                    The proposed rule would have                       disclosure requirements in the advanced
                                                each risk-based capital requirement is                   revised the definition of residential                 approaches rule.
                                                the ratio the banking organization must                  mortgage exposure in section 2 of the                    First, the proposed rule would have
                                                use for regulatory capital purposes.                     regulatory capital framework to clarify               clarified that an advanced approaches
                                                                                                         that an advanced approaches banking                   banking organization would be required
                                                II. Proposed Rule and Summary of
                                                                                                         organization must manage qualifying                   to disclose information related to
                                                Comments
                                                                                                         exposures as part of a segment of                     external ratings in Table 6 to section 173
                                                   In December 2014, the agencies                        exposures with homogenous risk                        only if it considered external ratings in
                                                invited comment on a notice of                           characteristics, and not on an individual             its internal ratings approach. An
                                                proposed rulemaking designed to                          basis, for purposes of classifying an                 advanced approaches banking
                                                clarify, correct, and update aspects of                                                                        organization that did not use or consider
                                                                                                         exposure as a residential mortgage
                                                the regulatory capital framework                                                                               external ratings would not be required
                                                                                                         exposure under the advanced
                                                applicable to advanced approaches                                                                              to make such a disclosure.
                                                banking organizations (proposed rule).8                  approaches rule. This clarification was
                                                                                                         consistent with the agencies’ intent in                  Second, the proposed rule would
                                                The proposed revisions were largely                                                                            have updated the disclosure
                                                driven by observations made by the                       adopting the proposed definition of
                                                                                                                                                               requirement related to securitization
                                                agencies during the parallel run review                  residential mortgage exposure, and with
                                                                                                                                                               exposures in Table 9 to reflect the
                                                process of advanced approaches                           the requirement that an advanced
                                                                                                                                                               treatment of credit-enhancing interest
                                                banking organizations, and included                      approaches banking organization have
                                                                                                                                                               only strips (CEIOs) and after-tax gain-
                                                corrections to typographical and                         an internal system that groups retail                 on-sale resulting from a securitization.
                                                technical errors, clarifications and                     exposures into the appropriate retail                 Specifically, CEIOs that do not
                                                updates in light of revisions to other                   exposure subcategory and that groups                  constitute after-tax gain-on-sale would
                                                rules. The proposed revisions were also                  the retail exposures in each retail                   be risk-weighted at 1,250 percent, and
                                                intended to enhance consistency of the                   exposure subcategory into separate                    an after-tax gain-on-sale resulting from a
                                                agencies’ advanced approaches rule                       segments with homogenous risk                         securitization would be deducted from
                                                with relevant international standards.9                  characteristics.10 The agencies did not               common equity tier 1 capital, rather
                                                The proposed amendments affect only                      receive any comments on this part of the              than from tier 1 capital. The agencies
                                                those provisions of the revised capital                  proposed rule and are adopting it as                  did not receive any comments on this
                                                framework that apply to advanced                         final, with a technical edit to correct a             part of the proposed rule and are
                                                approaches banking organizations.                        grammatical error.                                    adopting it as final.
                                                   The agencies received two comment
                                                letters on the proposed revisions—one                    B. Calculation of Total On-Balance                    B. Application and Disclosure of the
                                                from a financial services trade                          Sheet Foreign Exposure                                Supplementary Leverage Ratio
                                                association, and another from a public                      As mentioned above, the advanced                     Advanced approaches banking
                                                advocacy nonprofit organization. The                                                                           organizations are subject to the
                                                                                                         approaches rule generally applies to a
                                                financial services trade association                                                                           supplementary leverage ratio.11 The
                                                                                                         banking organization with $250 billion
                                                suggested that several of the proposed                                                                         agencies proposed to clarify that the
                                                                                                         or more in total consolidated assets or
                                                changes also be applied to the                                                                                 supplementary leverage ratio would
                                                standardized approach. Both                              $10 billion or more in on-balance sheet
                                                                                                                                                               apply to an advanced approaches
                                                commenters expressed views on the                        foreign exposure. The proposed rule
                                                                                                                                                               banking organization, regardless of
                                                proposed treatment of cleared                            would have updated the method of
                                                                                                                                                               whether it had completed its parallel
                                                transactions. The financial services                     calculating on-balance sheet foreign
                                                                                                                                                               run process. The supplementary
                                                trade association suggested that the                     exposure to reference the current line
                                                                                                                                                               leverage ratio described in section
                                                agencies expand the proposed                             items on the regulatory reporting forms.              10(c)(4) would begin to apply to a
                                                treatment, while the public advocacy                     The agencies did not receive any                      banking organization immediately
                                                nonprofit organization suggested that                    comments on this part of the proposed                 following the quarter in which the
                                                the proposed treatment was too                           rule and are adopting it as final, with a             banking organization becomes subject to
                                                                                                         technical edit to update a reference to               the advanced approaches rule pursuant
                                                  6 12 CFR 3.121(d) (OCC), 12 CFR 217.121(d)             the Federal Financial Institutions                    to section 100(b)(1) of the advanced
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                                                (Board), and 12 CFR 324.121(d) (FDIC).                   Examination Council (FFIEC) 009                       approaches rule.
                                                  7 See 12 CFR part 3.10(c) (OCC); 12 CFR part
                                                                                                         Report instead of referencing the Call                  In addition, the agencies proposed to
                                                217.10(c) (Board); and 12 CFR part 324.10(c) (FDIC).
                                                  8 See 79 FR 75455 (Dec. 18, 2014).                     Report.                                               clarify the disclosure requirements
                                                  9 See International Convergence of Capital

                                                Measurement and Capital Standards: A Revised               10 See 12 CFR 3.122(b)(3) (OCC), 12 CFR                11 See section 10(c)(4)(ii) of the regulatory capital

                                                Framework,’’ (June 2006) http://www.bis.org/publ/        217.122(b)(3) (Board), and 12 CFR 324.122(b)(3)       framework and 79 FR 57725 (Sept. 26, 2014) (2014
                                                bcbs128.htm.                                             (FDIC).                                               SLR rule).



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                                                applicable to advanced approaches                        leverage ratio data in the quarterly                  assets a trade exposure amount for the
                                                banking organizations.12 The proposed                    disclosures for the fourth quarter of                 client-cleared transactions could
                                                rule clarified that advanced approaches                  2017. The agencies did not receive                    overstate the clearing member’s risk
                                                banking organizations, not just top-tier                 comments on this part of the proposed                 where the clearing member is not
                                                banking organizations, would be                          rule, and are finalizing it as proposed.              contractually obligated to perform on
                                                required to publicly disclose the                                                                              the transaction to its client in the event
                                                supplementary leverage ratio and the                     3. Risk Weights for Cleared Transactions              of a CCP failure. Furthermore, the
                                                components thereof (that is, tier 1                      A. Risk Weights for Certain Client                    public advocacy nonprofit commenter’s
                                                capital and total leverage exposure) on                  Cleared Transactions                                  concerns are partially addressed by the
                                                a quarterly basis. A banking                                The agencies proposed to revise the                additional capital requirement for a
                                                organization that qualified as an                                                                              clearing member banking organization’s
                                                                                                         advanced approaches rule for clearing
                                                advanced approaches banking                                                                                    exposure to the default fund of a CCP,
                                                                                                         member banking organizations’
                                                organization before January 1, 2015,                                                                           which considers its capitalization and
                                                                                                         exposures to a central counterparty
                                                would be required to provide these                                                                             risk profile, and the nature of its default
                                                                                                         (CCP) where the clearing member does
                                                disclosures, beginning with the first                                                                          fund. With respect to the financial
                                                                                                         not guarantee the performance of the
                                                quarter in 2015, while a banking                                                                               services trade association’s suggestion to
                                                                                                         CCP to the clearing member client.
                                                organization that qualified as an                                                                              make an exception from the
                                                                                                         Under the advanced approaches rule, a
                                                advanced approaches banking                                                                                    requirements in sections 3(a)(3) and
                                                                                                         clearing member banking organization is
                                                organization on or after January 1, 2015,                                                                      3(a)(4) of the regulatory capital
                                                                                                         required to assign a two percent risk
                                                would be subject to the disclosures                                                                            framework, it is not clear that the risks
                                                                                                         weight to the trade exposure amount for               in transactions where the clearing
                                                beginning with the calendar quarter
                                                immediately following the calendar                       a cleared transaction with a qualifying               member advanced approaches banking
                                                quarter in which the banking                             CCP (QCCP), and a risk weight                         organization does not guarantee the
                                                organization became an advanced                          applicable to the CCP under section 32                performance of the CCP are negligible.
                                                approaches banking organization. For                     of the regulatory capital framework for               Thus, the agencies are finalizing the
                                                example, a banking organization that                     a cleared transaction with a CCP that is              changes to the risk weight for certain
                                                becomes subject to the advanced                          not a QCCP. This risk weight is applied               client-cleared transactions as proposed.
                                                approaches rule as of year-end 2015                      when the banking organization is acting                  The financial services trade
                                                would begin disclosing its                               as a financial intermediary on behalf of              association also noted that the proposed
                                                supplementary leverage ratio and                         its clearing member client.                           changes should apply to the
                                                components thereof as of March 31,                          The proposed rule would have                       standardized approach contained in
                                                2016.                                                    permitted clearing member banking                     subpart D of the regulatory capital
                                                   In addition to the disclosure                         organizations to assign a zero percent                framework. However, the agencies did
                                                requirements above, the proposed rule                    risk weight under the advanced                        not seek comment on revisions to the
                                                clarified that all top-tier 13 advanced                  approaches rule to the trade exposure                 provisions in the standardized
                                                approaches banking organizations,                        amount of a cleared transaction that                  approach, and banking organizations
                                                regardless of their parallel run status,                 arises when a clearing member banking                 subject to the standardized approach but
                                                would be required to publicly disclose                   organization does not guarantee the                   not to the advanced approaches rule
                                                the quantitative information described                   performance of the CCP and has no                     may not have had sufficient notice of
                                                in Table 13 in section 173 of the                        payment obligation to the clearing                    the change. Therefore, the agencies are
                                                advanced approaches rule 14 for twelve                   member client in the event of a CCP                   not adopting the change requested by
                                                consecutive quarters or a shorter period,                default. The proposed treatment would                 the commenter, but will consider the
                                                as applicable, beginning on January 1,                   align the risk-based capital requirements             suggested change in the context of
                                                2015. For example, a top-tier banking                    for client-cleared transactions with the              future proposed rulemakings.
                                                organization that became an advanced                     treatment under the agencies’ 2014 SLR
                                                                                                         rule.                                                 B. Margin Period of Risk in the Internal
                                                approaches banking organization prior
                                                                                                            Both commenters provided views on                  Models Methodology (IMM)
                                                to January 1, 2015 (therefore subject to
                                                the supplementary leverage ratio                         this provision. The public advocacy                      The regulatory capital framework
                                                disclosure requirements beginning                        nonprofit organization suggested that                 increases the margin period of risk in
                                                January 1, 2015), and remains the top-                   the agencies not finalize the zero                    the IMM for large netting sets, netting
                                                tier banking organization, would                         percent risk weight, arguing that it                  sets involving illiquid collateral or over-
                                                publicly disclose supplementary                          underestimates the clearing member’s                  the-counter (OTC) derivatives that
                                                leverage ratio data for one quarter in the               risk to a CCP default. Conversely, the                cannot easily be replaced, or netting sets
                                                first quarterly disclosure of 2015, two                  financial services trade association                  with more than two margin disputes
                                                quarters in the second quarterly                         suggested that the agencies expand the                with the counterparty over the previous
                                                disclosure of 2015, and so on, disclosing                zero percent risk weight to transactions              two quarters that lasted more than the
                                                twelve quarters of supplementary                         cleared on behalf of clients that would               margin period of risk.15 In the proposed
                                                                                                         not meet the eligibility criteria in                  rule, the agencies proposed to clarify
                                                   12 Section 172(d) was added to the regulatory         sections 3(a)(3) and (3)(a)(4) of the                 that a cleared transaction would be
                                                capital framework as part of the 2014 SLR rule.          regulatory capital framework for a                    exempt from the higher margin period
                                                   13 Disclosure requirements in section 173 of the
                                                                                                         cleared transaction, to the extent that               of risk solely due to the fact that it is
                                                advanced approaches rule apply only to banking
                                                                                                         the clearing member does not guarantee                part of a large netting set (i.e., a netting
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                                                organizations that are not a consolidated subsidiary
                                                of a BHC, covered SLHC, or depository institution        the performance of the CCP and has no                 set that exceeds 5,000 trades at any time
                                                that is subject to these disclosure requirements or      payment obligation to the clearing                    during the previous quarter). A cleared
                                                a subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking organization that     member client in the event of a CCP                   transaction would be subject to the
                                                is subject to comparable public disclosure
                                                requirements in its home jurisdiction.
                                                                                                         default.                                              higher margin period of risk if the
                                                   14 Table 13 in section 173 of the advanced               The agencies believe that requiring                netting set contained illiquid collateral,
                                                approaches rule was adopted by the agencies in the       the clearing member banking
                                                2014 SLR rule.                                           organization to include in risk-weighted                15 Section   132(d)(5)(iii)(B).



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                                                derivatives that could not easily be                       the proposed change would have                       to section 132(d) and a technical edit in
                                                replaced, or the banking organization                      replaced the cross-reference to section              section 132(c)(2) to also permit an
                                                had more than two margin disputes                          131 with a cross-reference to subparts E             adjustment to EAD by the recognized
                                                with the counterparty over the previous                    and F.                                               CVA for OTC derivatives subject to a
                                                two quarters that lasted more than the                        The agencies did not receive any                  qualifying master netting agreement.
                                                margin period of risk.                                     comments on this proposed revision to                  One commenter proposed that the
                                                   The public advocacy nonprofit                           the advanced approaches rule, and are                agencies make a corresponding change
                                                commenter raised concerns about the                        adopting it as final. Notably, the                   to the standardized approach and
                                                exemption of cleared transactions that                     financial services trade association                 permit banking organizations to reduce
                                                are part of a large netting set from the                   commenter noted that the proposed                    the EAD amount for derivative contracts
                                                twenty business day margin-period-of-                      clarifications should be applied to the              by recognized CVA. The commenter
                                                risk requirement. However, in the                          standardized approach and suggested                  argued that the current treatment under
                                                agencies’ view, the fact that cleared                      that the agencies make a corresponding               the standardized approach double
                                                transactions are part of a large netting                   change to section 35 in subpart D of the             counts the impact of CVA, and noted
                                                set should not automatically subject                       regulatory capital framework. However,               that the adjustment to the standardized
                                                them to a higher capital requirement. In                   the agencies did not seek comment on                 approach would more closely align the
                                                order for trades to meet the regulatory                    revisions to the standardized approach,              regulatory capital framework with
                                                capital framework’s definition of cleared                  and non-advanced approaches banking                  international standards. However, the
                                                transaction, they must involve a CCP,                      organizations subject to the                         agencies did not seek comment on
                                                which facilitates trades between                           standardized approach may not have                   revisions to the provisions in the
                                                counterparties and has a proven record                     had sufficient notice of the change.                 standardized approach, and non-
                                                of being able to efficiently process a                     Therefore, the agencies are not adopting             advanced approaches banking
                                                large volume of transactions.                              the change requested by the commenter,               organizations subject to the
                                                Furthermore, most types of cleared                         but will consider the suggested change               standardized approach may not have
                                                transactions must meet the operational                     in the context of future proposed                    had sufficient notice of the change.
                                                criteria in section 3(a) of the regulatory                 rulemakings.                                         Therefore, the agencies are not adopting
                                                capital framework, including the                                                                                the change requested by the commenter,
                                                                                                           4. Risk Weights for Derivatives                      but will consider the suggested change
                                                portability requirement in section
                                                3(a)(4). These factors sufficiently                        A. Exposure at Default Adjustment for                in the context of future proposed
                                                mitigate the risk to warrant not applying                  Recognized Credit Valuation                          rulemakings.
                                                an increased margin-period-of-risk for a                   Adjustment (CVA)                                     B. Fair Value of Liabilities due to
                                                netting set of cleared transactions solely                    In calculating risk weights for                   Changes in the Banking Organization’s
                                                because of the size of the netting set. In                 derivative contracts, banking                        Own Credit Risk
                                                addition, this change promotes                             organizations may use the IMM if they
                                                international regulatory consistency by                                                                            Section 22 of the regulatory capital
                                                                                                           receive approval from their primary                  framework requires a banking
                                                aligning the advanced approaches rule                      Federal supervisor, or they may use the
                                                with international standards regarding                                                                          organization to adjust its common
                                                                                                           current exposure methodology (CEM).                  equity tier 1 capital for changes in the
                                                the requirements for netting sets                          In calculating exposure at default (EAD)
                                                containing 5,000 or more cleared                                                                                fair value of liabilities due to changes in
                                                                                                           for derivative contracts under the IMM,              the banking organization’s own credit
                                                transactions. Thus, the agencies are                       a banking organization may reduce EAD
                                                finalizing the changes to the margin                                                                            risk. The agencies proposed to clarify
                                                                                                           by the CVA that the banking                          that, for derivative liabilities, an
                                                period of risk in the IMM as proposed.                     organization has recognized in the fair              advanced approaches banking
                                                C. Collateral Posted by a Clearing                         value of derivative contracts reported on            organization would deduct the
                                                Member Client Banking Organization                         its balance sheet. This adjustment                   difference between its credit spread
                                                and a Clearing Member Banking                              reflects the fair value adjustment for               premium and the risk-free rate as part of
                                                Organization                                               counterparty credit risk in the valuation            this adjustment, and not in addition to
                                                                                                           of the netting set. Under the regulatory             this adjustment.
                                                  The agencies proposed to correct a                       capital framework, a banking
                                                cross-reference related to the calculation                                                                         The agencies did not receive any
                                                                                                           organization could not make a similar                comments on this part of the proposed
                                                of exposure for cleared transactions for                   adjustment under the CEM.
                                                clearing member banking organizations                                                                           rule and are adopting it as final.
                                                                                                              In the proposed rule, the agencies
                                                and for clearing member client banking                     proposed to adjust the CEM (section                  5. Requirements and Mechanics
                                                organizations in section 133 of the                        132(c)(1)) to permit an advanced                     Applicable to Banking Organizations
                                                regulatory capital framework. Prior to                     approaches banking organization to                   That Use the Advanced Approaches
                                                the proposed change, the provisions for                    reduce the EAD by the recognized CVA                 Rule
                                                measuring the risk-weighted asset                          on the balance sheet. The agencies                      In February 2014 and in March 2015,
                                                amount for posted collateral cross-                        noted that, for purposes of calculating              the OCC and the Board granted
                                                referenced only to section 131 of the                      standardized total risk-weighted assets              permission to a number of advanced
                                                regulatory capital framework, which                        as required under section 10 of the                  approaches banking organizations to
                                                contained the provisions for risk-                         regulatory capital framework, advanced               begin calculating their risk-based capital
                                                weighting wholesale and retail                             approaches banking organizations                     requirements under the advanced
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                                                exposures.16 Because collateral may be                     would not be permitted to reduce the                 approaches rule.17 During the parallel
                                                in the form of a securitization exposure,                  EAD calculated according to the CEM.
                                                equity exposure, or a covered position,                    The agencies did not receive comment                   17 Board Press Releases: http://

                                                                                                           on this proposed revision to the                     www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/
                                                  16 See sections 133(b)(4)(ii) and 133(c)(4)(ii) (rules                                                        20140221a.htm, http://www.federalreserve.gov/
                                                applicable to clearing member client banking
                                                                                                           advanced approaches rule and are                     newsevents/press/bcreg/20150331a.htm; OCC Press
                                                organizations and clearing member banking                  adopting it as final, with an update in              releases: http://www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-
                                                organizations, respectively).                              section 132(c)(1) to remove a reference              releases/2014/nr-ia-2014-21.html, http://



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                                                run evaluation process for advanced                      management and risk management                        136(e)(1) and (e)(2) and not section
                                                approaches banking organizations that                    processes. These proposed                             135(e)(1) and (e)(2).
                                                are calculating their risk-based capital                 modifications are consistent with the                    No comments were received on the
                                                requirements under the advanced                          current overarching principles in                     above proposed technical corrections.
                                                approaches rule, the agencies concluded                  sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory                The agencies are finalizing these
                                                that several areas of the advanced                       capital framework under which                         changes as proposed and are correcting
                                                approaches rule should be revised to (1)                 advanced approaches banking                           an additional internal cross-reference
                                                clarify the requirements and mechanics                   organizations must have an internal risk              error in section 132 that was identified
                                                for calculating risk-weighted assets                     rating and segmentation system that                   after the publication of the proposed
                                                under the advanced approaches rule                       accurately and reliably differentiates                rule. Specifically, the agencies are
                                                and (2) promote international                            among degrees of credit risk for                      amending section 132(d)(2)(iv)(C) to
                                                consistency by more clearly aligning the                 wholesale and retail exposures, and                   replace the reference to paragraph (d)(5)
                                                U.S. regulations with international                      must have a comprehensive risk-                       with the correct reference to paragraph
                                                standards.                                               parameter quantification process that                 (d)(6).
                                                   Sections 122 and 131 of the regulatory                produces accurate, timely, and reliable                  In addition, the FDIC has added a
                                                capital framework set forth the                          risk-parameter estimates. The agencies                clarification of its prior Federal Register
                                                qualification requirements for the                       emphasize that the revisions were                     instructions regarding the regulatory
                                                internal ratings-based approach (IRB) for                intended to clarify, but not change,                  capital framework. In its amendatory
                                                advanced approaches banking                              existing requirements. In fact, many of               rule text, the FDIC is clarifying for
                                                organizations and describe the                           these clarifications in subpart E of the              Federal Register publication purposes a
                                                mechanics for calculating risk-weighted                  regulatory capital framework are                      certain paragraph of its prompt
                                                assets for wholesale and retail exposures                included in agency supervisory                        corrective action (PCA) rules in 12 CFR
                                                under the advanced approaches rule.                      guidance and examination materials.                   324.403(b). The FDIC has provided this
                                                When the agencies initially adopted the                  Therefore, because they demonstrated                  clarification to ensure that its PCA rules,
                                                advanced approaches rule in 2007,18                      that they comply with the existing                    as published in the Federal Register, are
                                                they incorporated these elements into                    requirements, advanced approaches                     identical to the current PCA rules of the
                                                the supervisory review process rather                    banking organizations that have already               Board and the OCC.
                                                than into the advanced approaches rule.                  exited parallel run demonstrated that
                                                However, the agencies believe that                                                                             IV. Regulatory Analyses
                                                                                                         they met the proposed requirements
                                                certain elements of sections 122 and 131                 upon exit. The agencies did not receive               A. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA)
                                                of the regulatory capital framework                      any comments on this part of the
                                                should be clarified to ensure that                                                                               In accordance with the requirements
                                                                                                         proposed rule and are adopting the                    of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
                                                advanced approaches banking                              changes as final, with a technical edit to
                                                organizations appropriately: (1) Obtain                                                                        (44 U.S.C. 3501–3521) (PRA), the
                                                                                                         the rule text in section 122(c)(2)(v)(11)             agencies may not conduct or sponsor,
                                                and consider all relevant and material                   to include language that was included
                                                information to estimate probability of                                                                         and a respondent is not required to
                                                                                                         in the regulatory capital framework but               respond to, an information collection
                                                default (PD), loss given default (LGD),                  inadvertently omitted from the
                                                and EAD; (2) quantify risk parameters                                                                          unless it displays a currently valid
                                                                                                         proposed revisions.                                   Office of Management and Budget
                                                for wholesale and retail exposures; and
                                                (3) establish internal requirements for                  6. Technical Corrections                              (OMB) control number. The agencies
                                                collateral and risk management                                                                                 did not receive any comments on the
                                                                                                            In addition to the revisions discussed             proposed rule related to PRA. The
                                                processes.                                               above, the agencies proposed to make
                                                   Accordingly, in the proposed rule, the                                                                      agencies reviewed the final rule and
                                                                                                         the following technical corrections:                  determined that it would not introduce
                                                agencies proposed incorporating new                         • In section 131(e)(3)(vi), the rule
                                                rule text to add specificity and enhance                                                                       any new collection of information
                                                                                                         would have been revised to reference                  pursuant to the PRA.
                                                transparency regarding the IRB process                   section 22(d) and not section 22(a)(7);
                                                and the mechanics used to calculate
                                                                                                            • In Table 1 of section 132, the                   B. Regulatory Flexibility Act Analysis
                                                total wholesale and retail risk-weighted
                                                                                                         reference in the column heading would                    OCC: The Regulatory Flexibility Act,
                                                assets. More specifically, the proposed
                                                                                                         have been corrected to state that ‘‘Non-              5 U.S.C. 601 et seq. (RFA), requires an
                                                rule would have amended sections 122
                                                                                                         sovereign issuers risk weight under this              agency, in connection with a final rule,
                                                and 131 of the regulatory capital
                                                                                                         section (in percent)’’ and ‘‘Sovereign                to prepare a Final Regulatory Flexibility
                                                framework to clarify requirements
                                                                                                         issuers risk weight under this section (in            Analysis describing the impact of the
                                                associated with: (1) The frequency for
                                                                                                         percent)’’ are found in section 32.                   final rule on small entities, or to certify
                                                reviewing risk rating systems, (2) the
                                                                                                            • In section 132(d)(7)(iv)(B), the                 that the final rule would not have a
                                                independence of the systems’
                                                                                                         agencies would have revised the rule to               significant economic impact on a
                                                development, design, and
                                                                                                         reference section 132(b)(2) and not                   substantial number of small entities. For
                                                implementation, (3) time horizons for
                                                                                                         section 131(b)(2);                                    purposes of the RFA, the Small Business
                                                default and loss data when estimating
                                                risk parameters, (4) changes in advanced                    • In section 132(d)(9)(ii), the agencies           Administration (SBA) defines small
                                                approaches banking organizations’                        would have revised the rule to reference              entities as those with $550 million or
                                                lending, payment processing, and                         section 132(e)(6) and not section                     less in assets for commercial banks and
                                                account monitoring practices, (5) the                    132(e)(3);                                            savings institutions, and $38.5 million
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                                                use of all relevant available data for                      • In section 133(b)(3)(i)(B), the                  or less in assets for trust companies.
                                                assigning risk ratings, and (6) the need                 agencies would have revised the rule to                  As described in the SUPPLEMENTARY
                                                for internal requirements for collateral                 reference section 133(b)(3)(i)(A) and not             INFORMATION section of the preamble, the
                                                                                                         section 132(b)(3)(i)(A); and                          final rule would apply only to advanced
                                                www.occ.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2015/              • In section 136(e)(2)(i) and                      approaches banking organizations. No
                                                nr-ia-2015-47.html.                                      136(e)(2)(ii), the agencies would have                OCC-supervised advanced approaches
                                                  18 72 FR 69288 (December 7, 2007).                     revised the rule to reference section                 banking organization qualifies as a small


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                                                entity as defined by the SBA. Therefore,                 small banking organization).19 As of                     banks and Federal savings associations
                                                the OCC certifies that the final rule will               March 31, 2015, there were                               subject to the OCC’s advanced
                                                not have a significant economic impact                   approximately 631 small state member                     approaches rule.
                                                on a substantial number of OCC-                          banks. As of December 31, 2014, there                      Because the final rule is designed to
                                                supervised small entities.                               were approximately 3,833 small bank                      clarify, correct, and update existing
                                                   FDIC: The RFA requires an agency, in                  holding companies and 271 small                          rules, and does not introduce any new
                                                connection with a notice of final                        savings and loan holding companies.                      requirements, the OCC has determined
                                                rulemaking, to prepare a Final                              The final rule applies only to                        that it would not result in expenditures
                                                Regulatory Flexibility Act analysis                      advanced approaches banking                              by State, local, and Tribal governments,
                                                describing the impact of the rule on                     organizations, which, generally, are                     or by the private sector, of $143 million
                                                small entities (defined by the SBA for                   banking organizations with total                         or more.
                                                purposes of the RFA to include banking                   consolidated assets of $250 billion or
                                                entities with total assets of $550 million               more, that have total consolidated on-                   D. Plain Language
                                                or less) or to certify that the final rule               balance sheet foreign exposure of $10                      Section 722 of the Gramm-Leach-
                                                will not have a significant economic                     billion or more, are a subsidiary of an                  Bliley Act requires the Federal banking
                                                impact on a substantial number of small                  advanced approaches depository                           agencies to use plain language in all
                                                entities.                                                institution, or that elect to use the                    proposed and final rules published after
                                                   Using the SBA’s size standards, as of                 advanced approaches rule. Currently, no                  January 1, 2000. The agencies have
                                                March 31, 2015, the FDIC supervised                      small top-tier bank holding company,                     sought to present the final rule in a
                                                3,407 small entities. As described in the                top-tier savings and loan holding                        simple and straightforward manner, and
                                                SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of                     company, or state member bank is an                      did not receive any comments on the
                                                the preamble, however, the final rule                    advanced approaches banking                              use of plain language.
                                                applies only to advanced approaches                      organization, so there would be no
                                                banking organizations. Advanced                          additional projected compliance                          List of Subjects
                                                approaches banking organization is                       requirements imposed on small bank                       12 CFR Part 3
                                                defined to include a state nonmember                     holding companies, savings and loan
                                                bank or a state savings association that                 holding companies, or state member                         Administrative practice and
                                                has, or is a subsidiary of, a bank holding               banks. The Board expects that any small                  procedure, Capital, National banks,
                                                company or savings and loan holding                      bank holding company, savings and                        Reporting and recordkeeping
                                                company that has total consolidated                      loan holding company, or state member                    requirements, Risk.
                                                assets of $250 billion or more, total                    bank that would be covered by this final                 12 CFR Part 217
                                                consolidated on-balance sheet foreign                    rule would rely on its parent banking
                                                exposure of $10 billion or more, or that                 organization for compliance and would                      Administrative practice and
                                                has elected to use the advanced                          not bear additional costs.                               procedure, Banks, Banking, Capital,
                                                approaches framework. As of March 31,                       The Board is aware of no other                        Federal Reserve System, Holding
                                                2015, based on a $550 million                            Federal rules that duplicate, overlap, or                companies, Reporting and
                                                threshold, zero (out of 3,119) small state               conflict with the final rule. The Board                  recordkeeping requirements, Securities.
                                                nonmember banks and zero (out of 288)                    believes that the final rule will not have               12 CFR Part 324
                                                small state savings associations were                    a significant economic impact on small
                                                under the advanced approaches rule.                      banking organizations supervised by the                    Administrative practice and
                                                Therefore, the FDIC does not believe                     Board and therefore believes that there                  procedure, Banks, Banking, Capital
                                                that the final rule results in a significant             are no significant alternatives to the                   Adequacy, Reporting and recordkeeping
                                                economic impact on a substantial                         final rule that would reduce the                         requirements, Savings associations,
                                                number of small entities under its                       economic impact on small banking                         State non-member banks.
                                                supervisory jurisdiction.                                organizations supervised by the Board.
                                                                                                                                                                  DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
                                                   The FDIC certifies that the final rule
                                                                                                         C. OCC Unfunded Mandates Reform Act                      Office of the Comptroller of the
                                                does not have a significant economic
                                                                                                         of 1995 Determination                                    Currency
                                                impact on a substantial number of small
                                                FDIC-supervised institutions.                              The OCC analyzed the final rule
                                                                                                                                                                  12 CFR Chapter I
                                                   Board: The Board is providing a final                 under the factors set forth in the
                                                regulatory flexibility analysis with                     Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995                     Authority and Issuance
                                                respect to this final rule. As discussed                 (UMRA) (2 U.S.C. 1532). Under this                         For the reasons set forth in the
                                                above, this final rule would clarify,                    analysis, the OCC considered whether                     common preamble and under the
                                                correct, and update aspects of the                       the final rule includes a Federal                        authority of 12 U.S.C. 93a, 1462, 1462a,
                                                agencies’ regulatory capital framework                   mandate that may result in the                           1463, 1464, 3907, 3909, 1831o, and
                                                applicable to banking organizations that                 expenditure by State, local, and Tribal                  5412(b)(2)(B), the Office of the
                                                are subject to the advanced approaches                   governments, in the aggregate, or by the                 Comptroller of the Currency amends
                                                rule. The revisions are largely driven by                private sector, of $100 million or more                  part 3 of chapter I of title 12, Code of
                                                observations made by the agencies                        in any one year ($143 million adjusted                   Federal Regulations as follows:
                                                during the parallel run review process                   for inflation).
                                                of advanced approaches banking                             The final rule includes clarifications,                PART 3—CAPITAL ADEQUACY
                                                organizations as well as a recent                        corrections, and updates for certain                     STANDARDS
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                                                assessment of the regulatory capital                     aspects of the agencies’ regulatory
                                                framework.                                               capital framework applicable to national                 ■ 1. The authority citation for part 3
                                                   Under regulations issued by the SBA,                                                                           continues to read as follows:
                                                                                                            19 See 13 CFR 121.201. Effective July 14, 2014, the
                                                a small entity includes a depository                                                                                Authority: 12 U.S.C. 93a, 161, 1462,
                                                                                                         Small Business Administration revised the size
                                                institution, bank holding company, or                    standards for banking organizations to $550 million      1462a, 1463, 1464, 1818, 1828(n), 1828 note,
                                                savings and loan holding company with                    in assets from $500 million in assets. 79 FR 33647       1831n note, 1835, 3907, 3909, and
                                                total assets of $550 million or less (a                  (June 12, 2014).                                         5412(b)(2)(B).



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                                                ■ 2. Section 3.2 is amended by revising                  difference between its credit spread                  with respect to its own credit risk and
                                                the definition of ‘‘Residential mortgage                 premium and the risk-free rate for                    operational risk exposures.
                                                exposure’’ to read as follows:                           derivatives that are liabilities as part of              (b) Risk rating and segmentation
                                                                                                         this adjustment.                                      systems for wholesale and retail
                                                § 3.2    Definitions.                                                                                          exposures. (1)(i) A national bank or
                                                                                                         *     *    *     *      *
                                                *       *    *     *    *                                ■ 5. Section 3.100 is amended by                      Federal savings association must have
                                                   Residential mortgage exposure means                                                                         an internal risk rating and segmentation
                                                                                                         revising paragraph (b)(1)(ii) to read as
                                                an exposure (other than a securitization                                                                       system that accurately, reliably, and
                                                                                                         follows:
                                                exposure, equity exposure, statutory                                                                           meaningfully differentiates among
                                                multifamily mortgage, or presold                         § 3.100 Purpose, applicability, and                   degrees of credit risk for the national
                                                construction loan):                                      principle of conservatism.                            bank’s or Federal savings association’s
                                                   (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a                 *       *    *     *     *                            wholesale and retail exposures. When
                                                first or subsequent lien on one-to-four                     (b) * * *                                          assigning an internal risk rating, a
                                                family residential property; or                             (1) * * *                                          national bank or Federal savings
                                                   (ii) With an original and outstanding                    (ii) Has consolidated total on-balance             association may consider a third-party
                                                amount of $1 million or less that is                     sheet foreign exposure on its most                    assessment of credit risk, provided that
                                                primarily secured by a first or                          recent year-end Federal Financial                     the national bank’s or Federal savings
                                                subsequent lien on residential property                  Institutions Examination Council                      association’s internal risk rating
                                                that is not one-to-four family; and                      (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion               assignment does not rely solely on the
                                                   (2) For purposes of calculating capital               or more (where total on-balance sheet                 external assessment.
                                                requirements under subpart E of this                     foreign exposure equals total foreign                    (ii) If a national bank or Federal
                                                part, managed as part of a segment of                    countries cross-border claims on an                   savings association uses multiple rating
                                                exposures with homogeneous risk                          ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign               or segmentation systems, the national
                                                characteristics and not on an individual-                countries claims on local residents on                bank’s or Federal savings association’s
                                                exposure basis.                                          an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign            rationale for assigning an obligor or
                                                *       *    *     *    *                                countries fair value of foreign exchange              exposure to a particular system must be
                                                                                                         and derivative products), calculated in               documented and applied in a manner
                                                ■ 3. Section 3.10 is amended by revising                                                                       that best reflects the obligor’s or
                                                paragraph (c) introductory text to read                  accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country
                                                                                                         Exposure Report;                                      exposure’s level of risk. A national bank
                                                as follows:                                                                                                    or Federal savings association must not
                                                                                                         *       *    *     *     *
                                                § 3.10    Minimum capital requirements.                                                                        inappropriately allocate obligors or
                                                                                                         ■ 6. Section 3.122 is amended by:                     exposures across systems to minimize
                                                *      *     *     *     *                               ■ a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and
                                                   (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio                                                                       regulatory capital requirements.
                                                                                                         (b)(1);                                                  (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale
                                                calculations. An advanced approaches                     ■ b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);
                                                national bank or Federal savings                                                                               obligors and exposures, including loss
                                                                                                         ■ c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5)               severity ratings grades to wholesale
                                                association that has completed the                       and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);
                                                parallel run process and received                                                                              exposures, and assigning retail
                                                                                                         ■ d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and              exposures to retail segments, a national
                                                notification from the OCC pursuant to                    (10) as paragraphs (c)(10) and (11),
                                                § 3.121(d) must determine its regulatory                                                                       bank or Federal savings association
                                                                                                         revising newly redesignated paragraphs                must use all relevant and material
                                                capital ratios as described in paragraphs                (c)(10) and (11), and adding a new
                                                (c)(1) through (3) of this section. An                                                                         information and ensure that the
                                                                                                         paragraph (c)(9); and                                 information is current.
                                                advanced approaches national bank or                     ■ e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).                          (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD
                                                Federal savings association must                            The revisions and additions read as                rating or retail exposure to a PD
                                                determine its supplementary leverage                     follows:                                              segment, a national bank or Federal
                                                ratio in accordance with paragraph
                                                                                                                                                               savings association must assess the
                                                (c)(4) of this section, beginning with the               § 3.122   Qualification requirements.
                                                                                                                                                               obligor or retail borrower’s ability and
                                                calendar quarter immediately following                      (a) * * *                                          willingness to contractually perform,
                                                the quarter in which the national bank                      (3) Each national bank or Federal                  taking a conservative view of projected
                                                or Federal savings association meets any                 savings association must have an                      information.
                                                of the criteria in § 3.100(b)(1).                        appropriate infrastructure with risk                     (2) * * *
                                                *      *     *     *     *                               measurement and management                               (iii) A national bank or Federal
                                                                                                         processes that meet the qualification                 savings association must have an
                                                ■ 4. Section 3.22 is amended by revising
                                                                                                         requirements of this section and are                  effective process to obtain and update in
                                                paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read as follows:
                                                                                                         appropriate given the national bank’s or              a timely manner relevant and material
                                                § 3.22 Regulatory capital adjustments and                Federal savings association’s size and                information on obligor and exposure
                                                deductions.                                              level of complexity. Regardless of                    characteristics that affect PD, LGD and
                                                *      *    *     *    *                                 whether the systems and models that                   EAD.
                                                  (b) * * *                                              generate the risk parameters necessary                   (3) For retail exposures:
                                                  (1) * * *                                              for calculating a national bank’s or                     (i) A national bank or Federal savings
                                                  (iii) A national bank or Federal                       Federal savings association’s risk-based              association must have an internal
                                                savings association must deduct any net                  capital requirements are located at any               system that groups retail exposures into
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                                                gain and add any net loss related to                     affiliate of the national bank or Federal             the appropriate retail exposure
                                                changes in the fair value of liabilities                 savings association, the national bank or             subcategory and groups the retail
                                                that are due to changes in the national                  Federal savings association itself must               exposures in each retail exposure
                                                bank’s or Federal savings association’s                  ensure that the risk parameters and                   subcategory into separate segments with
                                                own credit risk. An advanced                             reference data used to determine its                  homogeneous risk characteristics that
                                                approaches national bank or Federal                      risk-based capital requirements are                   provide a meaningful differentiation of
                                                savings association must deduct the                      representative of long run experience                 risk. The national bank’s or Federal


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                                                savings association’s system must                        including periods of economic                            (9) If a national bank or Federal
                                                identify and group in separate segments                  downturn conditions, whether internal                 savings association uses internal data
                                                by subcategories exposures identified in                 or external data are used;                            obtained prior to becoming subject to
                                                § 3.131(c)(2)(ii) and (iii).                                (ii) Take into account any changes in              this subpart E or external data to arrive
                                                   (ii) A national bank or Federal savings               lending practice or the process for                   at PD, LGD, or EAD estimates, the
                                                association must have an internal                        pursuing recoveries over the observation              national bank or Federal savings
                                                system that captures all relevant                        period;                                               association must demonstrate to the
                                                exposure risk characteristics, including                    (iii) Promptly reflect technical                   OCC that the national bank or Federal
                                                borrower credit score, product and                       advances, new data, and other                         savings association has made
                                                collateral types, as well as exposure                    information as they become available;                 appropriate adjustments if necessary to
                                                delinquencies, and must consider cross-                     (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to             be consistent with the definition of
                                                collateral provisions, where present.                    estimate risk parameters support the                  default in § 3.101. Internal data obtained
                                                   (iii) The national bank or Federal                    accuracy and robustness of those                      after the national bank or Federal
                                                savings association must review and, if                  estimates; and                                        savings association becomes subject to
                                                appropriate, update assignments of                          (v) Demonstrate that its estimation                this subpart E must be consistent with
                                                individual retail exposures to segments                  technique performs well in out-of-                    the definition of default in § 3.101.
                                                and the loss characteristics and                         sample tests whenever possible.                          (10) The national bank or Federal
                                                delinquency status of each identified                    *       *    *     *    *                             savings association must review and
                                                risk segment. These reviews must occur                      (5) The national bank or Federal                   update (as appropriate) its risk
                                                whenever the national bank or Federal                    savings association must be able to                   parameters and its risk parameter
                                                savings association receives new                         demonstrate which variables have been                 quantification process at least annually.
                                                material information, but generally no                   found to be statistically significant with               (11) The national bank or Federal
                                                less frequently than quarterly, and, in                  regard to EAD. The national bank’s or                 savings association must, at least
                                                all cases, at least annually.                            Federal savings association’s EAD                     annually, conduct a comprehensive
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               estimates must reflect its specific                   review and analysis of reference data to
                                                   (5) The national bank’s or Federal                    policies and strategies with regard to                determine relevance of the reference
                                                savings association’s internal risk rating               account management, including account                 data to the national bank’s or Federal
                                                system for wholesale exposures must                      monitoring and payment processing,                    savings association’s exposures, quality
                                                provide for the review and update (as                    and its ability and willingness to                    of reference data to support PD, LGD,
                                                appropriate) of each obligor rating and                  prevent further drawdowns in                          and EAD estimates, and consistency of
                                                (if applicable) each loss severity rating                circumstances short of payment default.               reference data to the definition of
                                                whenever the national bank or Federal                    The national bank or Federal savings                  default in § 3.101.
                                                savings association obtains relevant and                 association must have adequate systems                *       *     *    *     *
                                                material information on the obligor or                   and procedures in place to monitor                       (i) * * *
                                                exposure that affects PD, LGD and EAD,                   current outstanding amounts against                      (5) The national bank or Federal
                                                but no less frequently than annually.                    committed lines, and changes in                       savings association must have an
                                                   (c) Quantification of risk parameters                 outstanding amounts per obligor and                   internal audit function or equivalent
                                                for wholesale and retail exposures. (1)                  obligor rating grade and per retail                   function that is independent of
                                                The national bank or Federal savings                     segment. The national bank or Federal                 business-line management that at least
                                                association must have a comprehensive                    savings association must be able to                   annually:
                                                risk parameter quantification process                    monitor outstanding amounts on a daily                   (i) Reviews the national bank’s or
                                                that produces accurate, timely, and                      basis.                                                Federal savings association’s advanced
                                                reliable estimates of the risk parameters                   (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for                 systems and associated operations,
                                                on a consistent basis for the national                   wholesale obligors and retail segments                including the operations of its credit
                                                bank’s or Federal savings association’s                  must be based on at least five years of               function and estimations of PD, LGD,
                                                wholesale and retail exposures.                          default data. LGD estimates for                       and EAD;
                                                   (2) A national bank’s or Federal                      wholesale exposures must be based on                     (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the
                                                savings association’s estimates of PD,                   at least seven years of loss severity data,           controls supporting the national bank’s
                                                LGD, and EAD must incorporate all                        and LGD estimates for retail segments                 or Federal savings association’s
                                                relevant, material, and available data                   must be based on at least five years of               advanced systems; and
                                                that is reflective of the national bank’s                loss severity data. EAD estimates for                    (iii) Documents and reports its
                                                or Federal savings association’s actual                  wholesale exposures must be based on                  findings to the national bank’s or
                                                wholesale and retail exposures and of                    at least seven years of exposure amount               Federal savings association’s board of
                                                sufficient quality to support the                        data, and EAD estimates for retail                    directors (or a committee thereof).
                                                determination of risk-based capital                      segments must be based on at least five               *       *     *    *     *
                                                requirements for the exposures. In                       years of exposure amount data. If the
                                                                                                                                                               ■ 7. Section 3.131 is amended by:
                                                particular, the population of exposures                  national bank or Federal savings
                                                                                                                                                               ■ a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and
                                                in the data used for estimation                          association has relevant and material
                                                                                                                                                               (iii); and
                                                purposes, the lending standards in use                   reference data that span a longer period
                                                                                                                                                               ■ b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing
                                                when the data were generated, and other                  of time than the minimum time periods
                                                                                                                                                               ‘‘§ 3.22(a)(7)’’ and adding ‘‘§ 3.22(d)’’ in
                                                relevant characteristics, should closely                 specified above, the national bank or
                                                                                                                                                               its place.
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                                                match or be comparable to the national                   Federal savings association must
                                                                                                                                                                  The revisions read as follows:
                                                bank’s or Federal savings association’s                  incorporate such data in its estimates,
                                                exposures and standards. In addition, a                  provided that it does not place undue                 § 3.131 Mechanics for calculating total
                                                national bank or Federal savings                         weight on periods of favorable or benign              wholesale and retail risk-weighted assets.
                                                association must:                                        economic conditions relative to periods               *       *    *    *     *
                                                   (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are                of economic downturn conditions.                          (d) * * *
                                                representative of long run experience,                   *       *    *     *    *                                 (5) * * *


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                                                   (ii) A national bank or Federal savings               adjustment does not include any                       ■  a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B) removing
                                                association may take into account the                    adjustments to common equity tier 1                   ‘‘§ 3.132(b)(3)(i)(A)’’ and adding
                                                risk reducing effects of guarantees and                  capital attributable to changes in the fair           paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section’’ in
                                                credit derivatives in support of retail                  value of the national bank’s or Federal               its place;
                                                exposures in a segment when                              savings association’s liabilities that are            ■ b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing
                                                quantifying the PD and LGD of the                        due to changes in its own credit risk                 ‘‘§ 3.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or F
                                                segment. In doing so, a national bank or                 since the inception of the transaction                of this part, as applicable’’ in its place;
                                                Federal savings association must                         with the counterparty.                                ■ c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and
                                                consider all relevant available                             (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to            ■ d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing
                                                information.                                             a qualifying master netting agreement.                ‘‘§ 3.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or F
                                                   (iii) Except as provided in paragraph                 A national bank or Federal savings                    of this part, as applicable’’ in its place.
                                                (d)(6) of this section, a national bank or               association must determine the EAD for                   The addition reads as follows:
                                                Federal savings association may take                     multiple OTC derivative contracts that                § 3.133   Cleared transactions.
                                                into account the risk reducing effects of                are subject to a qualifying master netting            *       *    *      *     *
                                                collateral in support of a wholesale                     agreement using the current exposure                     (c) * * *
                                                exposure when quantifying the LGD of                     methodology in paragraph (c)(6) of this                  (3) * * *
                                                the exposure, and may take into account                  section or using the internal models                     (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs
                                                the risk reducing effects of collateral in               methodology described in paragraph (d)                (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this section, a
                                                support of retail exposures when                         of this section. A national bank or                   clearing member national bank or
                                                quantifying the PD and LGD of the                        Federal savings association may reduce                Federal savings association may apply a
                                                segment. In order to do so, a national                   the EAD calculated according to                       risk weight of 0 percent to the trade
                                                bank or Federal savings association                      paragraph (c)(6) of this section by the               exposure amount for a cleared
                                                must have established internal                           credit valuation adjustment that the                  transaction with a CCP where the
                                                requirements for collateral management,                  national bank or Federal savings                      clearing member national bank or
                                                legal certainty, and risk management                     association has recognized in its balance             Federal savings association is acting as
                                                processes.                                               sheet valuation of any OTC derivative                 a financial intermediary on behalf of a
                                                *       *    *     *      *                              contracts in the netting set. For                     clearing member client, the transaction
                                                ■ 8. Section 3.132 is amended by:                        purposes of this paragraph (c)(2), the                offsets another transaction that satisfies
                                                ■ a. In Table 1 to § 3.132, removing                     credit valuation adjustment does not                  the requirements set forth in § 3.3(a),
                                                ‘‘this section’’ and adding ‘‘§ 3.32’’ in its            include any adjustments to common                     and the clearing member national bank
                                                place, wherever it appears;                              equity tier 1 capital attributable to                 or Federal savings association is not
                                                ■ b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2)                  changes in the fair value of the national             obligated to reimburse the clearing
                                                and (d)(5)(iii)(B);                                      bank’s or Federal savings association’s               member client in the event of the CCP
                                                ■ c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing                liabilities that are due to changes in its            default.
                                                ‘‘(d)(5)’’ and adding ‘‘(d)(6)’’ in its place;           own credit risk since the inception of                *       *    *      *     *
                                                ■ d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing                the transaction with the counterparty.
                                                ‘‘§ 3.131(b)(2)’’ and adding                                                                                   § 3.136   [Amended]
                                                                                                         *       *    *     *     *
                                                ‘‘§ 3.132(b)(2)’’ in its place; and                         (d) * * *                                          ■  10. Section 3.136 is amended by:
                                                ■ d. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing                      (5) * * *                                          ■  a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i), removing
                                                ‘‘paragraph (e)(3)’’ and adding                             (iii) * * *                                        ‘‘§ 3.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding
                                                ‘‘paragraph (e)(6)’’ in its place.                          (B) Twenty business days if the                    ‘‘paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this
                                                   The revisions read as follows:                        number of trades in a netting set                     section’’ in its place: And
                                                                                                         exceeds 5,000 at any time during the                  ■ b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii), removing
                                                § 3.132 Counterparty credit risk of repo-                                                                      ‘‘§§ 3.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding
                                                style transactions, eligible margin loans,               previous quarter (except if the national
                                                                                                         bank or Federal savings association is                ‘‘paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this
                                                and OTC derivative contracts.
                                                                                                         calculating EAD for a cleared                         section’’ in its place.
                                                *     *     *     *     *
                                                                                                         transaction under § 3.133) or contains                ■ 11. Section 3.172 is amended by
                                                  (c) EAD for OTC derivative
                                                                                                         one or more trades involving illiquid                 revising paragraph (d) to read as
                                                contracts—(1) OTC derivative contracts
                                                                                                         collateral or any derivative contract that            follows:
                                                not subject to a qualifying master
                                                netting agreement. A national bank or                    cannot be easily replaced. If over the                § 3.172   Disclosure requirements.
                                                Federal savings association must                         two previous quarters more than two
                                                                                                         margin disputes on a netting set have                 *     *      *    *     *
                                                determine the EAD for an OTC                                                                                     (d)(1) A national bank or Federal
                                                derivative contract that is not subject to               occurred that lasted more than the
                                                                                                                                                               savings association that meets any of the
                                                a qualifying master netting agreement                    margin period of risk, then the national
                                                                                                                                                               criteria in § 3.100(b)(1) before January 1,
                                                using the current exposure methodology                   bank or Federal savings association
                                                                                                                                                               2015, must publicly disclose each
                                                in paragraph (c)(5) of this section or                   must use a margin period of risk for that
                                                                                                                                                               quarter its supplementary leverage ratio
                                                using the internal models methodology                    netting set that is at least two times the
                                                                                                                                                               and the components thereof (that is, tier
                                                described in paragraph (d) of this                       minimum margin period of risk for that
                                                                                                                                                               1 capital and total leverage exposure) as
                                                section. A national bank or Federal                      netting set. If the periodicity of the
                                                                                                                                                               calculated under subpart B of this part,
                                                savings association may reduce the EAD                   receipt of collateral is N-days, the
                                                                                                                                                               beginning with the first quarter in 2015.
                                                calculated according to paragraph (c)(5)                 minimum margin period of risk is the
                                                                                                                                                               This disclosure requirement applies
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                                                of this section by the credit valuation                  minimum margin period of risk under                   without regard to whether the national
                                                adjustment that the national bank or                     this paragraph (d) plus N minus 1. This               bank or Federal savings association has
                                                Federal savings association has                          period should be extended to cover any                completed the parallel run process and
                                                recognized in its balance sheet valuation                impediments to prompt re-hedging of                   received notification from the OCC
                                                of any OTC derivative contracts in the                   any market risk.                                      pursuant to § 3.121(d).
                                                netting set. For purposes of this                        *       *    *     *     *                              (2) A national bank or Federal savings
                                                paragraph (c)(1), the credit valuation                   ■ 9. Section 3.133 is amended by:                     association that meets any of the criteria


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                                                in § 3.100(b)(1) on or after January 1,                         ■ d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table                    organization that is subject to
                                                2015, must publicly disclose each                               9 to § 3.173.                                                  comparable public disclosure
                                                quarter its supplementary leverage ratio                           The revisions and additions read as                         requirements in its home jurisdiction.
                                                and the components thereof (that is, tier                       follows:                                                          (3) The disclosures described in
                                                1 capital and total leverage exposure) as
                                                                                                                § 3.173 Disclosures by certain advanced                        Tables 1 through 12 to § 3.173 must be
                                                calculated under subpart B of this part
                                                                                                                approaches national banks or Federal                           made publicly available for twelve
                                                beginning with the calendar quarter
                                                immediately following the quarter in
                                                                                                                savings associations.                                          consecutive quarters beginning on
                                                which the national bank or Federal                                 (a)(1) An advanced approaches                               January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as
                                                savings association becomes an                                  national bank or Federal savings                               applicable, for the quarters after the
                                                advanced approaches national bank or                            association described in § 3.172(b) must                       national bank or Federal savings
                                                Federal savings association. This                               make the disclosures described in                              association has completed the parallel
                                                disclosure requirement applies without                          Tables 1 through 12 to § 3.173.                                run process and received notification
                                                regard to whether the national bank or                             (2) An advanced approaches national                         from the OCC pursuant to § 3.121(d).
                                                Federal savings association has                                 bank or Federal savings association that                       The disclosures described in Table 13 to
                                                completed the parallel run process and                          is required to publicly disclose its                           § 3.173 must be made publicly available
                                                has received notification from the OCC                          supplementary leverage ratio pursuant                          for twelve consecutive quarters
                                                pursuant to § 3.121(d).                                         to § 3.172(d) must make the disclosures                        beginning on January 1, 2015, or a
                                                ■ 12. Section 3.173 is amended by:                              required under Table 13 to § 3.173,                            shorter period, as applicable, for the
                                                ■ a. Redesignating paragraph (a)                                unless the national bank or Federal                            quarters after the national bank or
                                                introductory text as paragraph (a)(1) and                       savings association is a consolidated                          Federal savings association becomes
                                                revising newly redesignated paragraph                           subsidiary of a bank holding company,                          subject to the disclosure of the
                                                (a)(1);                                                         savings and loan holding company, or                           supplementary leverage ratio pursuant
                                                ■ b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (a)(3);                       depository institution that is subject to                      to § 3.172(d) and § 3.173(a)(2).
                                                ■ c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table                     these disclosures requirements or a
                                                6 to § 3.173; and                                               subsidiary of a non-U.S. banking                               *      *    *     *     *

                                                    TABLE 6 TO § 3.173—CREDIT RISK: DISCLOSURES FOR PORTFOLIOS SUBJECT TO IRB RISK-BASED CAPITAL FORMULA
                                                  Qualitative               (a)               * * *
                                                  disclosures

                                                                                              (1) Structure of internal rating systems and if the national bank or Federal savings association considers exter-
                                                                                                nal ratings, the relation between internal and external ratings;

                                                           *                             *                           *                           *                        *                     *              *



                                                *      *        *       *         *

                                                                                                                TABLE 9 TO § 3.173—SECURITIZATION

                                                          *                      *                                   *                           *                        *                     *              *
                                                Quantitative Disclosures ...........................

                                                           *                             *                          *                          *                   *                      *                    *
                                                                                                                    (i)           * * *
                                                                                                                                  (2) Aggregate amount disclosed separately by type of underlying exposure in the
                                                                                                                                      pool of any:
                                                                                                                                  (i) After-tax gain-on-sale on a securitization that has been deducted from common
                                                                                                                                      equity tier 1 capital: And
                                                                                                                                  (ii) Credit-enhancing interest-only strip that is assigned a 1,250 percent risk weight.

                                                           *                             *                           *                           *                        *                     *              *



                                                *      *        *       *         *                             PART 217—CAPITAL ADEQUACY OF                                   ■ 14. Section 217.2 is amended by
                                                                                                                BANK HOLDING COMPANIES,                                        revising the definition of ‘‘Residential
                                                FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
                                                                                                                SAVINGS AND LOAN HOLDING                                       mortgage exposure’’ to read as follows:
                                                12 CFR CHAPTER II                                               COMPANIES, AND STATE MEMBER
                                                                                                                                                                               § 217.2   Definitions.
                                                Authority and Issuance                                          BANKS (REGULATION Q)
                                                                                                                                                                               *    *     *    *     *
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                                                   For the reasons set forth in the                             ■ 13. The authority citation for part 217                        Residential mortgage exposure means
                                                common preamble, part 217 of chapter                            continues to read as follows:                                  an exposure (other than a securitization
                                                II of title 12 of the Code of Federal                                                                                          exposure, equity exposure, statutory
                                                                                                                  Authority: 12 U.S.C. 248(a), 321–338a,
                                                Regulations is amended as follows:                              481–486, 1462a, 1467a, 1818, 1828, 1831n,                      multifamily mortgage, or presold
                                                                                                                1831o, 1831p–l, 1831w, 1835, 1844(b), 1851,                    construction loan):
                                                                                                                3904, 3906–3909, 4808, 5365, 5368, 5371.



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                                                   (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a                    (1) * * *                                          risk parameters and reference data used
                                                first or subsequent lien on one-to-four                     (i) * * *                                          to determine its risk-based capital
                                                family residential property; or                             (B) * * *                                          requirements are representative of long
                                                   (ii) With an original and outstanding                    (2) Has consolidated total on-balance              run experience with respect to its own
                                                amount of $1 million or less that is                     sheet foreign exposure on its most                    credit risk and operational risk
                                                primarily secured by a first or                          recent year-end Federal Financial                     exposures.
                                                subsequent lien on residential property                  Institutions Examination Council                         (b) Risk rating and segmentation
                                                that is not one-to-four family; and                      (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion               systems for wholesale and retail
                                                   (2) For purposes of calculating capital               or more (where total on-balance sheet                 exposures. (1)(i) A Board-regulated
                                                requirements under subpart E of this                     foreign exposure equals total foreign                 institution must have an internal risk
                                                part, managed as part of a segment of                    countries cross-border claims on an                   rating and segmentation system that
                                                exposures with homogeneous risk                          ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign               accurately, reliably, and meaningfully
                                                characteristics and not on an individual-                countries claims on local residents on                differentiates among degrees of credit
                                                exposure basis.                                          an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign            risk for the Board-regulated institution’s
                                                *       *    *     *    *                                countries fair value of foreign exchange              wholesale and retail exposures. When
                                                                                                         and derivative products), calculated in               assigning an internal risk rating, a
                                                ■ 15. Section 217.10 is amended by
                                                                                                         accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country                 Board-regulated institution may
                                                revising paragraph (c) introductory text                                                                       consider a third-party assessment of
                                                to read as follows:                                      Exposure Report;
                                                                                                         *       *    *     *     *                            credit risk, provided that the Board-
                                                § 217.10   Minimum capital requirements.                    (ii) * * *                                         regulated institution’s internal risk
                                                *      *     *     *     *                                  (B) Has consolidated total on-balance              rating assignment does not rely solely
                                                   (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio                 sheet foreign exposure on its most                    on the external assessment.
                                                calculations. An advanced approaches                     recent year-end Federal Financial                        (ii) If a Board-regulated institution
                                                Board-regulated institution that has                     Institutions Examination Council                      uses multiple rating or segmentation
                                                completed the parallel run process and                   (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion               systems, the Board-regulated
                                                received notification from the Board                     or more (where total on-balance sheet                 institution’s rationale for assigning an
                                                pursuant to § 217.121(d) must determine                  foreign exposure equals total foreign                 obligor or exposure to a particular
                                                its regulatory capital ratios as described               countries cross-border claims on an                   system must be documented and
                                                in paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this                 ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign               applied in a manner that best reflects
                                                section. An advanced approaches                          countries claims on local residents on                the obligor or exposure’s level of risk. A
                                                Board-regulated institution must                         an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign            Board-regulated institution must not
                                                determine its supplementary leverage                     countries fair value of foreign exchange              inappropriately allocate obligors or
                                                ratio in accordance with paragraph                       and derivative products), calculated in               exposures across systems to minimize
                                                (c)(4) of this section, beginning with the               accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country                 regulatory capital requirements.
                                                                                                                                                                  (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale
                                                calendar quarter immediately following                   Exposure Report;
                                                                                                                                                               obligors and exposures, including loss
                                                the quarter in which the Board-                          *       *    *     *     *                            severity ratings grades to wholesale
                                                regulated institution meets any of the                   ■ 18. Section 217.122 is amended by:                  exposures, and assigning retail
                                                criteria in § 217.100(b)(1).                             ■ a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and                   exposures to retail segments, a Board-
                                                *      *     *     *     *                               (b)(1);                                               regulated institution must use all
                                                ■ 16. Section 217.22 is amended by                       ■ b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);                    relevant and material information and
                                                revising paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read as                ■ c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5)               ensure that the information is current.
                                                follows:                                                 and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);                           (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD
                                                                                                         ■ d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and              rating or retail exposure to a PD
                                                § 217.22 Regulatory capital adjustments                  (10) as paragraphs (c)(10) and (11),                  segment, a Board-regulated institution
                                                and deductions.
                                                                                                         revising newly redesignated paragraphs                must assess the obligor or retail
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               (c)(10) and (11), and adding a new                    borrower’s ability and willingness to
                                                   (b) * * *                                             paragraph (c)(9); and                                 contractually perform, taking a
                                                   (1) * * *                                             ■ e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).                       conservative view of projected
                                                   (iii) A Board-regulated institution                      The revisions and additions read as                information.
                                                must deduct any net gain and add any                     follows:                                                 (2) * * *
                                                net loss related to changes in the fair                                                                           (iii) A Board-regulated institution
                                                value of liabilities that are due to                     § 217.122    Qualification requirements.              must have an effective process to obtain
                                                changes in the Board-regulated                              (a) * * *                                          and update in a timely manner relevant
                                                institution’s own credit risk. An                           (3) Each Board-regulated institution               and material information on obligor and
                                                advanced approaches Board-regulated                      must have an appropriate infrastructure               exposure characteristics that affect PD,
                                                institution must deduct the difference                   with risk measurement and management                  LGD and EAD.
                                                between its credit spread premium and                    processes that meet the qualification                    (3) For retail exposures:
                                                the risk-free rate for derivatives that are              requirements of this section and are                     (i) A Board-regulated institution must
                                                liabilities as part of this adjustment.                  appropriate given the Board-regulated                 have an internal system that groups
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               institution’s size and level of                       retail exposures into the appropriate
                                                ■ 17. Section 217.100 is amended by                      complexity. Regardless of whether the                 retail exposure subcategory and groups
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                                                revising paragraphs (b)(1)(i)(B)(2) and                  systems and models that generate the                  the retail exposures in each retail
                                                (b)(1)(ii)(B) to read as follows:                        risk parameters necessary for calculating             exposure subcategory into separate
                                                                                                         a Board-regulated institution’s risk-                 segments with homogeneous risk
                                                § 217.100 Purpose, applicability, and                    based capital requirements are located                characteristics that provide a
                                                principle of conservatism.                               at any affiliate of the Board-regulated               meaningful differentiation of risk. The
                                                *       *    *       *       *                           institution, the Board-regulated                      Board-regulated institution’s system
                                                    (b) * * *                                            institution itself must ensure that the               must identify and group in separate


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                                                segments by subcategories exposures                         (iii) Promptly reflect technical                   the Board-regulated institution becomes
                                                identified in § 217.131(c)(2)(ii) and (iii).             advances, new data, and other                         subject to this subpart E must be
                                                   (ii) A Board-regulated institution must               information as they become available;                 consistent with the definition of default
                                                have an internal system that captures all                   (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to             in § 217.101.
                                                relevant exposure risk characteristics,                  estimate risk parameters support the                     (10) The Board-regulated institution
                                                including borrower credit score, product                 accuracy and robustness of those                      must review and update (as appropriate)
                                                and collateral types, as well as exposure                estimates; and                                        its risk parameters and its risk
                                                delinquencies, and must consider cross-                     (v) Demonstrate that its estimation                parameter quantification process at least
                                                collateral provisions, where present.                    technique performs well in out-of-                    annually.
                                                   (iii) The Board-regulated institution                 sample tests whenever possible.                          (11) The Board-regulated institution
                                                must review and, if appropriate, update                  *       *    *     *    *                             must, at least annually, conduct a
                                                assignments of individual retail                            (5) The Board-regulated institution                comprehensive review and analysis of
                                                exposures to segments and the loss                       must be able to demonstrate which                     reference data to determine relevance of
                                                characteristics and delinquency status                   variables have been found to be                       the reference data to the Board-regulated
                                                of each identified risk segment. These                   statistically significant with regard to              institution’s exposures, quality of
                                                reviews must occur whenever the                          EAD. The Board-regulated institution’s                reference data to support PD, LGD, and
                                                Board-regulated institution receives new                 EAD estimates must reflect its specific               EAD estimates, and consistency of
                                                material information, but generally no                   policies and strategies with regard to                reference data to the definition of
                                                less frequently than quarterly, and, in                  account management, including account                 default in § 217.101.
                                                all cases, at least annually.                            monitoring and payment processing,                    *       *    *     *     *
                                                *       *    *     *    *                                and its ability and willingness to                       (i) * * *
                                                   (5) The Board-regulated institution’s                 prevent further drawdowns in                             (5) The Board-regulated institution
                                                internal risk rating system for wholesale                circumstances short of payment default.               must have an internal audit function or
                                                exposures must provide for the review                    The Board-regulated institution must                  equivalent function that is independent
                                                and update (as appropriate) of each                      have adequate systems and procedures                  of business-line management that at
                                                obligor rating and (if applicable) each                  in place to monitor current outstanding               least annually:
                                                loss severity rating whenever the Board-                 amounts against committed lines, and                     (i) Reviews the Board-regulated
                                                regulated institution obtains relevant                   changes in outstanding amounts per                    institution’s advanced systems and
                                                and material information on the obligor                  obligor and obligor rating grade and per              associated operations, including the
                                                or exposure that affects PD, LGD and                     retail segment. The Board-regulated                   operations of its credit function and
                                                EAD, but no less frequently than                         institution must be able to monitor                   estimations of PD, LGD, and EAD;
                                                annually.                                                outstanding amounts on a daily basis.                    (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the
                                                   (c) Quantification of risk parameters                    (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for                 controls supporting the Board-regulated
                                                for wholesale and retail exposures. (1)
                                                                                                         wholesale obligors and retail segments                institution’s advanced systems; and
                                                The Board-regulated institution must
                                                                                                         must be based on at least five years of                  (iii) Documents and reports its
                                                have a comprehensive risk parameter
                                                                                                         default data. LGD estimates for                       findings to the Board-regulated
                                                quantification process that produces
                                                                                                         wholesale exposures must be based on                  institution’s board of directors (or a
                                                accurate, timely, and reliable estimates
                                                                                                         at least seven years of loss severity data,           committee thereof).
                                                of the risk parameters on a consistent
                                                                                                         and LGD estimates for retail segments                 *       *    *     *     *
                                                basis for the Board-regulated
                                                                                                         must be based on at least five years of
                                                institution’s wholesale and retail                                                                             ■ 19. Section 217.131 is amended by:
                                                                                                         loss severity data. EAD estimates for
                                                exposures.                                                                                                     ■ a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and
                                                   (2) A Board-regulated institution’s                   wholesale exposures must be based on
                                                                                                                                                               (iii); and
                                                estimates of PD, LGD, and EAD must                       at least seven years of exposure amount
                                                                                                                                                               ■ b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing
                                                incorporate all relevant, material, and                  data, and EAD estimates for retail
                                                                                                                                                               ‘‘§ 217.22(a)(7)’’ and adding
                                                available data that is reflective of the                 segments must be based on at least five
                                                                                                                                                               ‘‘§ 217.22(d)’’ in its place.
                                                Board-regulated institution’s actual                     years of exposure amount data. If the
                                                                                                                                                                  The revisions read as follows:
                                                wholesale and retail exposures and of                    Board-regulated institution has relevant
                                                sufficient quality to support the                        and material reference data that span a               § 217.131 Mechanics for calculating total
                                                determination of risk-based capital                      longer period of time than the minimum                wholesale and retail risk-weighted assets.
                                                requirements for the exposures. In                       time periods specified above, the Board-              *       *    *     *     *
                                                particular, the population of exposures                  regulated institution must incorporate                   (d) * * *
                                                in the data used for estimation                          such data in its estimates, provided that                (5) * * *
                                                purposes, the lending standards in use                   it does not place undue weight on                        (ii) A Board-regulated institution may
                                                when the data were generated, and other                  periods of favorable or benign economic               take into account the risk reducing
                                                relevant characteristics, should closely                 conditions relative to periods of                     effects of guarantees and credit
                                                match or be comparable to the Board-                     economic downturn conditions.                         derivatives in support of retail
                                                regulated institution’s exposures and                    *       *    *     *    *                             exposures in a segment when
                                                standards. In addition, a Board-                            (9) If a Board-regulated institution               quantifying the PD and LGD of the
                                                regulated institution must:                              uses internal data obtained prior to                  segment. In doing so, a Board-regulated
                                                   (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are                becoming subject to this subpart E or                 institution must consider all relevant
                                                representative of long run experience,                   external data to arrive at PD, LGD, or                available information.
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                                                including periods of economic                            EAD estimates, the Board-regulated                       (iii) Except as provided in paragraph
                                                downturn conditions, whether internal                    institution must demonstrate to the                   (d)(6) of this section, a Board-regulated
                                                or external data are used;                               Board that the Board-regulated                        institution may take into account the
                                                   (ii) Take into account any changes in                 institution has made appropriate                      risk reducing effects of collateral in
                                                lending practice or the process for                      adjustments if necessary to be consistent             support of a wholesale exposure when
                                                pursuing recoveries over the observation                 with the definition of default in                     quantifying the LGD of the exposure,
                                                period;                                                  § 217.101. Internal data obtained after               and may take into account the risk


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                                                reducing effects of collateral in support                according to paragraph (c)(6) of this                 for a cleared transaction with a CCP
                                                of retail exposures when quantifying the                 section by the credit valuation                       where the clearing member Board-
                                                PD and LGD of the segment. In order to                   adjustment that the Board-regulated                   regulated institution is acting as a
                                                do so, a Board-regulated institution                     institution has recognized in its balance             financial intermediary on behalf of a
                                                must have established internal                           sheet valuation of any OTC derivative                 clearing member client, the transaction
                                                requirements for collateral management,                  contracts in the netting set. For                     offsets another transaction that satisfies
                                                legal certainty, and risk management                     purposes of this paragraph (c)(2), the                the requirements set forth in § 217.3(a),
                                                processes.                                               credit valuation adjustment does not                  and the clearing member Board-
                                                *      *     *     *     *                               include any adjustments to common                     regulated institution is not obligated to
                                                ■ 20. Section 217.132 is amended by:                     equity tier 1 capital attributable to                 reimburse the clearing member client in
                                                ■ a. In Table 1 to § 217.132, removing                   changes in the fair value of the Board-               the event of the CCP default.
                                                ‘‘this section’’ and adding ‘‘§ 217.32’’ in              regulated institution’s liabilities that are          *     *     *     *    *
                                                its place, wherever it appears;                          due to changes in its own credit risk
                                                ■ b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2)                  since the inception of the transaction                § 217.136    [Amended]
                                                and (d)(5)(iii)(B);                                      with the counterparty.                                ■  22. Section 217.136 is amended by:
                                                ■ c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing                *       *    *     *     *                            ■  a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i), removing
                                                ‘‘(d)(5)’’ and adding ‘‘(d)(6)’’ in its place;              (d) * * *                                          ‘‘§ 217.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding
                                                ■ d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing                   (5) * * *                                          ‘‘paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this
                                                ‘‘§ 217.131(b)(2)’’ and adding                              (iii) * * *                                        section’’ in its place; and
                                                ‘‘§ 217.132(b)(2)’’ in its place; and                       (B) Twenty business days if the                    ■ b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii), removing
                                                ■ e. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing                   number of trades in a netting set                     ‘‘§§ 217.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding
                                                ‘‘paragraph (e)(3)’’ and adding                          exceeds 5,000 at any time during the                  ‘‘paragraphs (e)(1) and (2) of this
                                                ‘‘paragraph (e)(6)’’ in its place. The                   previous quarter (except if the Board-                section’’ in its place.
                                                revisions read as follows:                               regulated institution is calculating EAD              ■ 23. Section 217.172 is amended by
                                                § 217.132 Counterparty credit risk of repo-              for a cleared transaction under                       revising paragraph (d) to read as
                                                style transactions, eligible margin loans,               § 217.133) or contains one or more                    follows:
                                                and OTC derivative contracts.                            trades involving illiquid collateral or
                                                                                                         any derivative contract that cannot be                § 217.172    Disclosure requirements.
                                                *     *     *     *     *
                                                  (c) EAD for OTC derivative                             easily replaced. If over the two previous             *      *    *     *    *
                                                contracts—(1) OTC derivative contracts                   quarters more than two margin disputes                   (d)(1) A Board-regulated institution
                                                not subject to a qualifying master                       on a netting set have occurred that                   that meets any of the criteria in
                                                netting agreement. A Board-regulated                     lasted more than the margin period of                 § 217.100(b)(1) before January 1, 2015,
                                                institution must determine the EAD for                   risk, then the Board-regulated                        must publicly disclose each quarter its
                                                an OTC derivative contract that is not                   institution must use a margin period of               supplementary leverage ratio and the
                                                subject to a qualifying master netting                   risk for that netting set that is at least            components thereof (that is, tier 1
                                                agreement using the current exposure                     two times the minimum margin period                   capital and total leverage exposure) as
                                                methodology in paragraph (c)(5) of this                  of risk for that netting set. If the                  calculated under subpart B of this part,
                                                section or using the internal models                     periodicity of the receipt of collateral is           beginning with the first quarter in 2015.
                                                methodology described in paragraph (d)                   N-days, the minimum margin period of                  This disclosure requirement applies
                                                of this section. A Board-regulated                       risk is the minimum margin period of                  without regard to whether the Board-
                                                institution may reduce the EAD                           risk under this paragraph (d) plus N                  regulated institution has completed the
                                                calculated according to paragraph (c)(5)                 minus 1. This period should be                        parallel run process and received
                                                of this section by the credit valuation                  extended to cover any impediments to                  notification from the Board pursuant to
                                                adjustment that the Board-regulated                      prompt re-hedging of any market risk.                 § 217.121(d).
                                                institution has recognized in its balance                *       *    *     *     *                               (2) A Board-regulated institution that
                                                sheet valuation of any OTC derivative                                                                          meets any of the criteria in
                                                                                                         ■ 21. Section 217.133 is amended by:
                                                contracts in the netting set. For                        ■ a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B) removing
                                                                                                                                                               § 217.100(b)(1) on or after January 1,
                                                purposes of this paragraph (c)(1), the                   ‘‘§ 217.132(b)(3)(i)(A)’’ and adding                  2015, must publicly disclose each
                                                credit valuation adjustment does not                     paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section’’ in           quarter its supplementary leverage ratio
                                                include any adjustments to common                        its place;                                            and the components thereof (that is, tier
                                                equity tier 1 capital attributable to                    ■ b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing
                                                                                                                                                               1 capital and total leverage exposure) as
                                                changes in the fair value of the Board-                  ‘‘§ 217.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or              calculated under subpart B of this part
                                                regulated institution’s liabilities that are             F of this part, as applicable’’ in its place;         beginning with the calendar quarter
                                                due to changes in its own credit risk                    ■ c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and
                                                                                                                                                               immediately following the quarter in
                                                since the inception of the transaction                   ■ d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing
                                                                                                                                                               which the Board-regulated institution
                                                with the counterparty.                                   ‘‘§ 217.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or              becomes an advanced approaches
                                                  (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to                F of this part, as applicable’’ in its place.         Board-regulated institution. This
                                                a qualifying master netting agreement.                      The addition read as follows:                      disclosure requirement applies without
                                                A Board-regulated institution must                                                                             regard to whether the Board-regulated
                                                determine the EAD for multiple OTC                       § 217.133    Cleared transactions.                    institution has completed the parallel
                                                derivative contracts that are subject to a               *       *    *      *     *                           run process and has received
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                                                qualifying master netting agreement                         (c) * * *                                          notification from the Board pursuant to
                                                using the current exposure methodology                      (3) * * *                                          § 217.121(d).
                                                in paragraph (c)(6) of this section or                      (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs                   ■ 24. Section 217.173 is amended by:
                                                using the internal models methodology                    (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this section, a                 ■ a. Designating paragraph (a)
                                                described in paragraph (d) of this                       clearing member Board-regulated                       introductory text as paragraph (a)(1) and
                                                section. A Board-regulated institution                   institution may apply a risk weight of 0              revising newly redesignated paragraph
                                                may reduce the EAD calculated                            percent to the trade exposure amount                  (a)(1);


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                                                ■ b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (3);                          leverage ratio pursuant to § 217.172(d)                        January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as
                                                ■ c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table                     must make the disclosures required                             applicable, for the quarters after the
                                                6 to § 217.173; and                                             under Table 13 to § 217.173, unless the                        Board-regulated institution has
                                                ■ d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table                     Board-regulated institution is a                               completed the parallel run process and
                                                9 to § 217.173.                                                 consolidated subsidiary of a bank                              received notification from the Board
                                                   The revisions and additions read as                          holding company, savings and loan                              pursuant to § 217.121(d). The
                                                follows:                                                        holding company, or depository                                 disclosures described in Table 13 to
                                                § 217.173 Disclosures by certain advanced                       institution that is subject to these                           § 217.173 must be made publicly
                                                approaches Board-regulated institutions.                        disclosures requirements or a subsidiary                       available for twelve consecutive
                                                  (a)(1) An advanced approaches Board-                          of a non-U.S. banking organization that                        quarters beginning on January 1, 2015,
                                                regulated institution described in                              is subject to comparable public                                or a shorter period, as applicable, for the
                                                § 217.172(b) must make the disclosures                          disclosure requirements in its home                            quarters after the Board-regulated
                                                described in Tables 1 through 12 to                             jurisdiction.                                                  institution becomes subject to the
                                                § 217.173.                                                         (3) The disclosures described in                            disclosure of the supplementary
                                                  (2) An advanced approaches Board-                             Tables 1 through 12 to § 217.173 must                          leverage ratio pursuant to § 217.172(d)
                                                regulated institution that is required to                       be made publicly available for twelve                          and § 217.173(a)(2).
                                                publicly disclose its supplementary                             consecutive quarters beginning on                              *     *     *     *     *

                                                 TABLE 6 TO § 217.173—CREDIT RISK: DISCLOSURES FOR PORTFOLIOS SUBJECT TO IRB RISK-BASED CAPITAL FORMULA
                                                  Qualitative               (a)               * * *
                                                  disclosures

                                                                                              (1) Structure of internal rating systems and if the Board-regulated institution considers external ratings, the rela-
                                                                                                tion between internal and external ratings;

                                                           *                             *                           *                           *                        *                     *                *



                                                *      *        *       *         *

                                                                                                               TABLE 9 TO § 217.173—SECURITIZATION

                                                          *                              *                           *                           *                        *                     *                *
                                                Quantitative disclosures.

                                                           *                             *                          *                          *                   *                      *                    *
                                                                                                                    (i)           * * *
                                                                                                                                  (2) Aggregate amount disclosed separately by type of underlying exposure in the
                                                                                                                                      pool of any:
                                                                                                                                  (i) After-tax gain-on-sale on a securitization that has been deducted from common
                                                                                                                                      equity tier 1 capital; and
                                                                                                                                  (ii) Credit-enhancing interest-only strip that is assigned a 1,250 percent risk weight.

                                                           *                             *                           *                           *                        *                     *                *



                                                *      *        *       *         *                             L. 102–242, 105 Stat. 2236, 2355, as amended                     (ii) With an original and outstanding
                                                                                                                by Pub. L. 103–325, 108 Stat. 2160, 2233 (12                   amount of $1 million or less that is
                                                FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE                                       U.S.C. 1828 note); Pub. L. 102–242, 105 Stat.                  primarily secured by a first or
                                                CORPORATION                                                     2236, 2386, as amended by Pub. L. 102–550,                     subsequent lien on residential property
                                                12 CFR Chapter III                                              106 Stat. 3672, 4089 (12 U.S.C. 1828 note);                    that is not one-to-four family; and
                                                                                                                Pub. L. 111–203, 124 Stat. 1376, 1887 (15
                                                Authority and Issuance                                          U.S.C. 78o–7 note).                                              (2) For purposes of calculating capital
                                                   For the reasons stated in the                                                                                               requirements under subpart E of this
                                                preamble, the Federal Deposit Insurance                         ■ 26. Section 324.2 is amended by                              part, managed as part of a segment of
                                                Corporation amends part 324 of chapter                          revising the definition of ‘‘Residential                       exposures with homogeneous risk
                                                III of Title 12, Code of Federal                                mortgage exposure’’ to read as follows:                        characteristics and not on an individual-
                                                Regulations as follows:                                                                                                        exposure basis.
                                                                                                                § 324.2        Definitions.
                                                                                                                                                                               *      *    *     *     *
                                                PART 324—CAPITAL ADEQUACY                                       *      *     *     *    *
                                                                                                                                                                               ■ 27. Section 324.10 is amended by
                                                                                                                   Residential mortgage exposure means                         revising paragraph (c) introductory text
                                                ■ 25. The authority citation for part 324
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                                                                                                                an exposure (other than a securitization                       to read as follows:
                                                continues to read as follows:                                   exposure, equity exposure, statutory
                                                  Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1815(a), 1815(b),                        multifamily mortgage, or presold                               § 324.10    Minimum capital requirements.
                                                1816, 1818(a), 1818(b), 1818(c), 1818(t),                       construction loan):                                            *     *    *    *    *
                                                1819(Tenth), 1828(c), 1828(d), 1828(i),
                                                1828(n), 1828(o), 1831o, 1835, 3907, 3909,                         (1)(i) That is primarily secured by a                         (c) Advanced approaches capital ratio
                                                4808; 5371; 5412; Pub. L. 102–233, 105 Stat.                    first or subsequent lien on one-to-four                        calculations. An advanced approaches
                                                1761, 1789, 1790 (12 U.S.C. 1831n note); Pub.                   family residential property; or                                FDIC-supervised institution that has


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                                                completed the parallel run process and                   revising newly redesignated paragraphs                must assess the obligor or retail
                                                received notification from the FDIC                      (c)(10) and (c)(11), and adding a new                 borrower’s ability and willingness to
                                                pursuant to § 324.121(d) must determine                  paragraph (c)(9); and                                 contractually perform, taking a
                                                its regulatory capital ratios as described               ■ e. Revising paragraph (i)(5).                       conservative view of projected
                                                in paragraphs (c)(1) through (3) of this                    The revisions and additions read as                information.
                                                section. An advanced approaches FDIC-                    follows:                                                 (2) * * *
                                                supervised institution must determine                                                                             (iii) An FDIC-supervised institution
                                                                                                         § 324.122    Qualification requirements.              must have an effective process to obtain
                                                its supplementary leverage ratio in
                                                accordance with paragraph (c)(4) of this                    (a) * * *                                          and update in a timely manner relevant
                                                section, beginning with the calendar                        (3) Each FDIC-supervised institution               and material information on obligor and
                                                quarter immediately following the                        must have an appropriate infrastructure               exposure characteristics that affect PD,
                                                quarter in which the FDIC-supervised                     with risk measurement and management                  LGD and EAD.
                                                institution meets any of the criteria in                 processes that meet the qualification                    (3) For retail exposures:
                                                § 324.100(b)(1).                                         requirements of this section and are                     (i) An FDIC-supervised institution
                                                                                                         appropriate given the FDIC-supervised                 must have an internal system that
                                                *      *    *    *      *                                institution’s size and level of                       groups retail exposures into the
                                                ■ 28. Section 324.22 is amended by                       complexity. Regardless of whether the                 appropriate retail exposure subcategory
                                                revising paragraph (b)(1)(iii) to read as                systems and models that generate the                  and groups the retail exposures in each
                                                follows:                                                 risk parameters necessary for calculating             retail exposure subcategory into
                                                § 324.22 Regulatory capital adjustments                  an FDIC-supervised institution’s risk-                separate segments with homogeneous
                                                and deductions.                                          based capital requirements are located                risk characteristics that provide a
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               at any affiliate of the FDIC-supervised               meaningful differentiation of risk. The
                                                   (b) * * *                                             institution, the FDIC-supervised                      FDIC-supervised institution’s system
                                                   (1) * * *                                             institution itself must ensure that the               must identify and group in separate
                                                   (iii) An FDIC-supervised institution                  risk parameters and reference data used               segments by subcategories exposures
                                                must deduct any net gain and add any                     to determine its risk-based capital                   identified in § 324.131(c)(2)(ii) and (iii).
                                                net loss related to changes in the fair                  requirements are representative of long                  (ii) An FDIC-supervised institution
                                                value of liabilities that are due to                     run experience with respect to its own                must have an internal system that
                                                changes in the FDIC-supervised                           credit risk and operational risk                      captures all relevant exposure risk
                                                institution’s own credit risk. An                        exposures.                                            characteristics, including borrower
                                                advanced approaches FDIC-supervised                         (b) Risk rating and segmentation                   credit score, product and collateral
                                                institution must deduct the difference                   systems for wholesale and retail                      types, as well as exposure
                                                between its credit spread premium and                    exposures. (1)(i) An FDIC-supervised                  delinquencies, and must consider cross-
                                                the risk-free rate for derivatives that are              institution must have an internal risk                collateral provisions, where present.
                                                liabilities as part of this adjustment.                  rating and segmentation system that                      (iii) The FDIC-supervised institution
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               accurately, reliably, and meaningfully                must review and, if appropriate, update
                                                                                                         differentiates among degrees of credit                assignments of individual retail
                                                ■ 29. Section 324.100 is amended by
                                                                                                         risk for the FDIC-supervised                          exposures to segments and the loss
                                                revising paragraph (b)(1)(ii) to read as
                                                                                                         institution’s wholesale and retail                    characteristics and delinquency status
                                                follows:
                                                                                                         exposures. When assigning an internal                 of each identified risk segment. These
                                                § 324.100 Purpose, applicability, and                    risk rating, an FDIC-supervised                       reviews must occur whenever the FDIC-
                                                principle of conservatism.                               institution may consider a third-party                supervised institution receives new
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               assessment of credit risk, provided that              material information, but generally no
                                                   (b) * * *                                             the FDIC-supervised institution’s                     less frequently than quarterly, and, in
                                                   (1) * * *                                             internal risk rating assignment does not              all cases, at least annually.
                                                   (ii) Has consolidated total on-balance                rely solely on the external assessment.               *       *    *     *    *
                                                sheet foreign exposure on its most                          (ii) If an FDIC-supervised institution                (5) The FDIC-supervised institution’s
                                                recent year-end Federal Financial                        uses multiple rating or segmentation                  internal risk rating system for wholesale
                                                Institutions Examination Council                         systems, the FDIC-supervised                          exposures must provide for the review
                                                (FFIEC) 009 Report equal to $10 billion                  institution’s rationale for assigning an              and update (as appropriate) of each
                                                or more (where total on-balance sheet                    obligor or exposure to a particular                   obligor rating and (if applicable) each
                                                foreign exposure equals total foreign                    system must be documented and                         loss severity rating whenever the FDIC-
                                                countries cross-border claims on an                      applied in a manner that best reflects                supervised institution obtains relevant
                                                ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign                  the obligor or exposure’s level of risk.              and material information on the obligor
                                                countries claims on local residents on                   An FDIC-supervised institution must                   or exposure that affects PD, LGD and
                                                an ultimate-risk basis, plus total foreign               not inappropriately allocate obligors or              EAD, but no less frequently than
                                                countries fair value of foreign exchange                 exposures across systems to minimize                  annually.
                                                and derivative products), calculated in                  regulatory capital requirements.                         (c) Quantification of risk parameters
                                                accordance with the FFIEC 009 Country                       (iii) In assigning ratings to wholesale            for wholesale and retail exposures. (1)
                                                Exposure Report;                                         obligors and exposures, including loss                The FDIC-supervised institution must
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               severity ratings grades to wholesale                  have a comprehensive risk parameter
                                                ■ 30. Section 324.122 is amended by:                     exposures, and assigning retail                       quantification process that produces
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                                                ■ a. Revising paragraphs (a)(3) and                      exposures to retail segments, an FDIC-                accurate, timely, and reliable estimates
                                                (b)(1);                                                  supervised institution must use all                   of the risk parameters on a consistent
                                                ■ b. Adding paragraph (b)(2)(iii);                       relevant and material information and                 basis for the FDIC-supervised
                                                ■ c. Revising paragraphs (b)(3) and (5),                 ensure that the information is current.               institution’s wholesale and retail
                                                and (c)(1), (2), (5), and (6);                              (iv) When assigning an obligor to a PD             exposures.
                                                ■ d. Redesignating paragraphs (c)(9) and                 rating or retail exposure to a PD                        (2) An FDIC-supervised institution’s
                                                (c)(10) as paragraphs (c)(10) and (c)(11),               segment, an FDIC-supervised institution               estimates of PD, LGD, and EAD must


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                                                incorporate all relevant, material, and                  data, and EAD estimates for retail                    ■  b. In paragraph (e)(3)(vi), removing
                                                available data that is reflective of the                 segments must be based on at least five               ‘‘§ 324.22(a)(7)’’ and adding
                                                FDIC-supervised institution’s actual                     years of exposure amount data. If the                 ‘‘§ 324.22(d)’’ in its place.
                                                wholesale and retail exposures and of                    FDIC-supervised institution has relevant                 The revisions read as follows:
                                                sufficient quality to support the                        and material reference data that span a
                                                                                                                                                               § 324.131 Mechanics for calculating total
                                                determination of risk-based capital                      longer period of time than the minimum
                                                                                                                                                               wholesale and retail risk-weighted assets.
                                                requirements for the exposures. In                       time periods specified above, the FDIC-
                                                particular, the population of exposures                  supervised institution must incorporate               *       *    *     *     *
                                                in the data used for estimation                          such data in its estimates, provided that                (d) * * *
                                                purposes, the lending standards in use                   it does not place undue weight on                        (5) * * *
                                                when the data were generated, and other                  periods of favorable or benign economic                  (ii) An FDIC-supervised institution
                                                relevant characteristics, should closely                 conditions relative to periods of                     may take into account the risk reducing
                                                match or be comparable to the FDIC-                      economic downturn conditions.                         effects of guarantees and credit
                                                supervised institution’s exposures and                                                                         derivatives in support of retail
                                                                                                         *       *    *     *     *                            exposures in a segment when
                                                standards. In addition, an FDIC-                            (9) If an FDIC-supervised institution
                                                supervised institution must:                                                                                   quantifying the PD and LGD of the
                                                                                                         uses internal data obtained prior to                  segment. In doing so, an FDIC-
                                                   (i) Demonstrate that its estimates are                becoming subject to this subpart E or
                                                representative of long run experience,                                                                         supervised institution must consider all
                                                                                                         external data to arrive at PD, LGD, or                relevant available information.
                                                including periods of economic                            EAD estimates, the FDIC-supervised
                                                downturn conditions, whether internal                                                                             (iii) Except as provided in paragraph
                                                                                                         institution must demonstrate to the                   (d)(6) of this section, an FDIC-
                                                or external data are used;                               FDIC that the FDIC-supervised
                                                   (ii) Take into account any changes in                                                                       supervised institution may take into
                                                                                                         institution has made appropriate                      account the risk reducing effects of
                                                lending practice or the process for                      adjustments if necessary to be consistent
                                                pursuing recoveries over the observation                                                                       collateral in support of a wholesale
                                                                                                         with the definition of default in                     exposure when quantifying the LGD of
                                                period;                                                  § 324.101. Internal data obtained after
                                                   (iii) Promptly reflect technical                                                                            the exposure, and may take into account
                                                                                                         the FDIC-supervised institution                       the risk reducing effects of collateral in
                                                advances, new data, and other                            becomes subject to this subpart E must
                                                information as they become available;                                                                          support of retail exposures when
                                                                                                         be consistent with the definition of                  quantifying the PD and LGD of the
                                                   (iv) Demonstrate that the data used to                default in § 324.101.
                                                estimate risk parameters support the                                                                           segment. In order to do so, an FDIC-
                                                                                                            (10) The FDIC-supervised institution               supervised institution must have
                                                accuracy and robustness of those                         must review and update (as appropriate)
                                                estimates; and                                                                                                 established internal requirements for
                                                                                                         its risk parameters and its risk                      collateral management, legal certainty,
                                                   (v) Demonstrate that its estimation                   parameter quantification process at least
                                                technique performs well in out-of-                                                                             and risk management processes.
                                                                                                         annually.                                             *       *    *     *     *
                                                sample tests whenever possible.                             (11) The FDIC-supervised institution               ■ 32. Section 324.132 is amended by:
                                                *       *    *     *    *                                must, at least annually, conduct a                    ■ a. In Table 1 to § 324.132, removing
                                                   (5) The FDIC-supervised institution                   comprehensive review and analysis of                  ‘‘this section’’ and adding ‘‘§ 324.32’’ in
                                                must be able to demonstrate which                        reference data to determine relevance of              its place, wherever it appears;
                                                variables have been found to be                          the reference data to the FDIC-                       ■ b. Revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(2)
                                                statistically significant with regard to                 supervised institution’s exposures,                   and (d)(5)(iii)(B);
                                                EAD. The FDIC-supervised institution’s                   quality of reference data to support PD,              ■ c. In paragraph (d)(2)(iv)(C), removing
                                                EAD estimates must reflect its specific                  LGD, and EAD estimates, and                           ‘‘(d)(5)’’ and adding ‘‘(d)(6)’’ in its place;
                                                policies and strategies with regard to                   consistency of reference data to the                  ■ d. In paragraph (d)(7)(iv)(B), removing
                                                account management, including account                    definition of default in § 324.101.                   ‘‘§ 324.131(b)(2)’’ and adding
                                                monitoring and payment processing,                       *       *    *     *     *                            ‘‘§ 324.132(b)(2)’’ in its place; and
                                                and its ability and willingness to                          (i) * * *                                          ■ e. In paragraph (d)(9)(ii), removing
                                                prevent further drawdowns in                                                                                   ‘‘paragraph (e)(3)’’ and adding
                                                                                                            (5) The FDIC-supervised institution
                                                circumstances short of payment default.                                                                        ‘‘paragraph (e)(6)’’ in its place.
                                                                                                         must have an internal audit function or
                                                The FDIC-supervised institution must                                                                              The revisions read as follows:
                                                                                                         equivalent function that is independent
                                                have adequate systems and procedures
                                                                                                         of business-line management that at
                                                in place to monitor current outstanding                                                                        § 324.132 Counterparty credit risk of repo-
                                                                                                         least annually:
                                                amounts against committed lines, and                                                                           style transactions, eligible margin loans,
                                                changes in outstanding amounts per                          (i) Reviews the FDIC-supervised                    and OTC derivative contracts.
                                                obligor and obligor rating grade and per                 institution’s advanced systems and
                                                                                                                                                               *     *     *     *    *
                                                retail segment. The FDIC-supervised                      associated operations, including the
                                                                                                                                                                 (c) EAD for OTC derivative
                                                institution must be able to monitor                      operations of its credit function and
                                                                                                                                                               contracts—(1) OTC derivative contracts
                                                outstanding amounts on a daily basis.                    estimations of PD, LGD, and EAD;
                                                                                                                                                               not subject to a qualifying master
                                                   (6) At a minimum, PD estimates for                       (ii) Assesses the effectiveness of the             netting agreement. An FDIC-supervised
                                                wholesale obligors and retail segments                   controls supporting the FDIC-supervised               institution must determine the EAD for
                                                must be based on at least five years of                  institution’s advanced systems; and                   an OTC derivative contract that is not
                                                default data. LGD estimates for                             (iii) Documents and reports its                    subject to a qualifying master netting
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                                                wholesale exposures must be based on                     findings to the FDIC-supervised                       agreement using the current exposure
                                                at least seven years of loss severity data,              institution’s board of directors (or a                methodology in paragraph (c)(5) of this
                                                and LGD estimates for retail segments                    committee thereof).                                   section or using the internal models
                                                must be based on at least five years of                  *       *    *     *     *                            methodology described in paragraph (d)
                                                loss severity data. EAD estimates for                    ■ 31. Section 324.131 is amended by:                  of this section. An FDIC-supervised
                                                wholesale exposures must be based on                     ■ a. Revising paragraphs (d)(5)(ii) and               institution may reduce the EAD
                                                at least seven years of exposure amount                  (iii); and                                            calculated according to paragraph (c)(5)


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                                                of this section by the credit valuation                  extended to cover any impediments to                     (2) An FDIC-supervised institution
                                                adjustment that the FDIC-supervised                      prompt re-hedging of any market risk.                 that meets any of the criteria in
                                                institution has recognized in its balance                *      *    *      *    *                             § 324.100(b)(1) on or after January 1,
                                                sheet valuation of any OTC derivative                    ■ 33. Section 324.133 is amended by:
                                                                                                                                                               2015, must publicly disclose each
                                                contracts in the netting set. For                        ■ a. In paragraph (b)(3)(i)(B), removing              quarter its supplementary leverage ratio
                                                purposes of this paragraph (c)(1), the                   ‘‘§ 324.132(b)(3)(i)(A)’’ and adding                  and the components thereof (that is, tier
                                                credit valuation adjustment does not                     ‘‘paragraph (b)(3)(i)(A) of this section’’            1 capital and total leverage exposure) as
                                                include any adjustments to common                        in its place;                                         calculated under subpart B of this part
                                                equity tier 1 capital attributable to                    ■ b. In paragraph (b)(4)(ii) removing                 beginning with the calendar quarter
                                                changes in the fair value of the FDIC-                   ‘‘§ 324.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or              immediately following the quarter in
                                                supervised institution’s liabilities that                F of this part, as applicable’’ in its place;         which the FDIC-supervised institution
                                                are due to changes in its own credit risk                ■ c. Adding paragraph (c)(3)(iii); and                becomes an advanced approaches FDIC-
                                                since the inception of the transaction                   ■ d. In paragraph (c)(4)(ii) removing                 supervised institution. This disclosure
                                                with the counterparty.                                   ‘‘§ 324.131’’ and adding ‘‘subparts E or              requirement applies without regard to
                                                   (2) OTC derivative contracts subject to               F of this part, as applicable’’ in its place.         whether the FDIC-supervised institution
                                                a qualifying master netting agreement.                      The additions read as follows:                     has completed the parallel run process
                                                An FDIC-supervised institution must                                                                            and has received notification from the
                                                determine the EAD for multiple OTC                       § 324.133    Cleared transactions.                    FDIC pursuant to § 324.121(d).
                                                derivative contracts that are subject to a               *       *    *      *     *                           ■ 36. Section 324.173 is amended by:
                                                qualifying master netting agreement                         (c) * * *                                          ■ a. Designating paragraph (a) as
                                                using the current exposure methodology                      (3) * * *                                          paragraph (a)(1) and revising newly
                                                in paragraph (c)(6) of this section or                      (iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs                   redesignated paragraph (a)(1);
                                                using the internal models methodology                    (c)(3)(i) and (ii) of this section, a                 ■ b. Adding paragraphs (a)(2) and (3);
                                                described in paragraph (d) of this                       clearing member FDIC-supervised                       ■ c. Revising the entry for (a)(1) in Table
                                                section. An FDIC-supervised institution                  institution may apply a risk weight of 0              6 to § 324.173; and
                                                may reduce the EAD calculated                            percent to the trade exposure amount                  ■ d. Revising the entry for (i)(2) in Table
                                                according to paragraph (c)(6) of this                    for a cleared transaction with a CCP                  9 in § 324.173.
                                                section by the credit valuation                          where the clearing member FDIC-                          The revisions and additions read as
                                                adjustment that the FDIC-supervised                      supervised institution is acting as a                 follows:
                                                institution has recognized in its balance                financial intermediary on behalf of a                 § 324.173 Disclosures by certain advanced
                                                sheet valuation of any OTC derivative                    clearing member client, the transaction               approaches FDIC-supervised institutions.
                                                contracts in the netting set. For                        offsets another transaction that satisfies               (a)(1) An advanced approaches FDIC-
                                                purposes of this paragraph (c)(2), the                   the requirements set forth in § 324.3(a),             supervised institution described in
                                                credit valuation adjustment does not                     and the clearing member FDIC-                         § 324.172(b) must make the disclosures
                                                include any adjustments to common                        supervised institution is not obligated to            described in Tables 1 through 12 to
                                                equity tier 1 capital attributable to                    reimburse the clearing member client in               § 324.173.
                                                changes in the fair value of the FDIC-                   the event of the CCP default.                            (2) An advanced approaches FDIC-
                                                supervised institution’s liabilities that                *       *    *      *     *                           supervised institution that is required to
                                                are due to changes in its own credit risk                ■ 34. Section 324.136 is amended by,                  publicly disclose its supplementary
                                                since the inception of the transaction                   ■ a. In paragraph (e)(2)(i) removing                  leverage ratio pursuant to § 324.172(d)
                                                with the counterparty.                                   ‘‘§ 324.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding             must make the disclosures required
                                                *       *    *     *     *                               paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2) of this                  under Table 13 to § 324.173, unless the
                                                   (d) * * *                                             section’’ in its place; and                           FDIC-supervised institution is a
                                                   (5) * * *                                             ■ b. In paragraph (e)(2)(ii) removing                 consolidated subsidiary of a bank
                                                   (iii) * * *                                           ‘‘§§ 324.135(e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ and adding            holding company, savings and loan
                                                   (B) Twenty business days if the                       paragraphs (e)(1) and (e)(2)’’ of this                holding company, or depository
                                                number of trades in a netting set                        section in its place.                                 institution that is subject to these
                                                exceeds 5,000 at any time during the                     ■ 35. Section 324.172 is amended by                   disclosures requirements or a subsidiary
                                                previous quarter (except if the FDIC-                    revising paragraph (d) to read as                     of a non-U.S. banking organization that
                                                supervised institution is calculating                    follows:                                              is subject to comparable public
                                                EAD for a cleared transaction under                                                                            disclosure requirements in its home
                                                § 324.133) or contains one or more                       § 324.172    Disclosure requirements.                 jurisdiction.
                                                trades involving illiquid collateral or                  *     *     *     *    *                                 (3) The disclosures described in
                                                any derivative contract that cannot be                     (d)(1) An FDIC-supervised institution               Tables 1 through 12 to § 324.173 must
                                                easily replaced. If over the two previous                that meets any of the criteria in                     be made publicly available for twelve
                                                quarters more than two margin disputes                   § 324.100(b)(1) before January 1, 2015,               consecutive quarters beginning on
                                                on a netting set have occurred that                      must publicly disclose each quarter its               January 1, 2014, or a shorter period, as
                                                lasted more than the margin period of                    supplementary leverage ratio and the                  applicable, for the quarters after the
                                                risk, then the FDIC-supervised                           components thereof (that is, tier 1                   FDIC-supervised institution has
                                                institution must use a margin period of                  capital and total leverage exposure) as               completed the parallel run process and
                                                risk for that netting set that is at least               calculated under subpart B of this part,              received notification from the FDIC
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                                                two times the minimum margin period                      beginning with the first quarter in 2015.             pursuant to § 324.121(d). The
                                                of risk for that netting set. If the                     This disclosure requirement applies                   disclosures described in Table 13 to
                                                periodicity of the receipt of collateral is              without regard to whether the FDIC-                   § 324.173 must be made publicly
                                                N-days, the minimum margin period of                     supervised institution has completed                  available for twelve consecutive
                                                risk is the minimum margin period of                     the parallel run process and received                 quarters beginning on January 1, 2015,
                                                risk under this paragraph (d) plus N                     notification from the FDIC pursuant to                or a shorter period, as applicable, for the
                                                minus 1. This period should be                           § 324.121(d).                                         quarters after the FDIC-supervised


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                                                institution becomes subject to the                              leverage ratio pursuant to § 324.172(d)
                                                disclosure of the supplementary                                 and § 324.173(a)(2).
                                                                                                                *     *    *     *    *

                                                 TABLE 6 TO § 324.173—CREDIT RISK: DISCLOSURES FOR PORTFOLIOS SUBJECT TO IRB RISK-BASED CAPITAL FORMULA
                                                  Qualitative               (a)               * * *
                                                  disclosures

                                                                                              (1) Structure of internal rating systems and if the FDIC-supervised institution considers external ratings, the re-
                                                                                                lation between internal and external ratings;

                                                           *                             *                           *                          *                        *                     *               *



                                                *      *        *       *         *

                                                                                                               TABLE 9 TO § 324.173—SECURITIZATION

                                                          *                              *                           *                          *                        *                     *               *
                                                Quantitative
                                                 Disclosures.

                                                           *                             *                        *                     *                     *                   *                  *
                                                                            (i)               * * *
                                                                                              (2) Aggregate amount disclosed separately by type of underlying exposure in the pool of any:
                                                                                              (i) After-tax gain-on-sale on a securitization that has been deducted from common equity tier 1 capital; and
                                                                                              (ii) Credit-enhancing interest-only strip that is assigned a 1,250 percent risk weight.

                                                           *                             *                           *                          *                        *                     *               *



                                                *     *     *    *    *                                         covered BHC will be deemed to be well                         DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
                                                ■ 37. Section 324.403(b) is revised to                          capitalized if the FDIC-supervised
                                                read as follows:                                                institution satisfies paragraphs (b)(1)(i)                    Bureau of Industry and Security
                                                                                                                through (v) of this section and has a
                                                § 324.403 Capital measures and capital                          supplementary leverage ratio of 6.0                           15 CFR Part 702
                                                category definitions.
                                                                                                                percent or greater. For purposes of this                      [Docket No. 140501396–5463–02]
                                                   * * *                                                        paragraph, a covered BHC means a U.S.
                                                   (b) Capital categories. For purposes of                                                                                    RIN 0694–AG17
                                                                                                                top-tier bank holding company with
                                                section 38 of the FDI Act and this
                                                                                                                more than $700 billion in total assets as                     U.S. Industrial Base Surveys Pursuant
                                                subpart, an FDIC-supervised institution
                                                                                                                reported on the company’s most recent                         to the Defense Production Act of 1950
                                                shall be deemed to be:
                                                                                                                Consolidated Financial Statement for
                                                   (1) ‘‘Well capitalized’’ if it:                                                                                            AGENCY:  Bureau of Industry and
                                                   (i) Has a total risk-based capital ratio                     Bank Holding Companies (FR Y–9C) or
                                                                                                                                                                              Security, Commerce.
                                                of 10.0 percent or greater; and                                 more than $10 trillion in assets under
                                                                                                                                                                              ACTION: Final rule.
                                                   (ii) Has a Tier 1 risk-based capital                         custody as reported on the company’s
                                                ratio of 8.0 percent or greater; and                            most recent Banking Organization                              SUMMARY:   This rule sets forth the
                                                   (iii) Has a common equity tier 1                             Systemic Risk Report (FR Y–15).                               policies and procedures of the Bureau of
                                                capital ratio of 6.5 percent or greater;                        *     *     *     *     *                                     Industry and Security (BIS) for
                                                and                                                                                                                           conducting surveys to obtain
                                                                                                                  Dated: June 16, 2015.
                                                   (iv) Has a leverage ratio of 5.0 percent                                                                                   information in order to perform industry
                                                or greater;                                                     Thomas J. Curry,                                              studies assessing the U.S. industrial
                                                   (v) Is not subject to any written                            Comptroller of the Currency.                                  base to support the national defense
                                                agreement, order, capital directive, or                           By order of the Board of Governors of the                   pursuant to the Defense Production Act
                                                prompt corrective action directive                              Federal Reserve System, June 15, 2015.                        of 1950, as amended. Specifically, this
                                                issued by the FDIC pursuant to section                          Robert deV. Frierson,                                         rule provides a description of BIS’s
                                                8 of the FDI Act (12 U.S.C. 1818), the                                                                                        authority to issue surveys; the purpose
                                                                                                                Secretary of the Board.
                                                International Lending Supervision Act                                                                                         for the surveys and the manner in which
                                                                                                                  Dated at Washington, DC, this 16th day of                   such surveys are developed; the
                                                of 1983 (12 U.S.C. 3907), or the Home
                                                                                                                June, 2015.                                                   confidential treatment of submitted
                                                Owners’ Loan Act (12 U.S.C.
                                                1464(t)(6)(A)(ii)), or section 38 of the                        By order of the Board of Directors.                           information; and the penalties for non-
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                                                FDI Act (12 U.S.C. 1831o), or any                               Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.                        compliance with surveys. This rule is
                                                regulation thereunder, to meet and                              Robert E. Feldman,                                            intended to facilitate compliance with
                                                maintain a specific capital level for any                                                                                     surveys, thereby resulting in stronger
                                                                                                                Executive Secretary.
                                                capital measure; and                                                                                                          and more complete assessments of the
                                                                                                                [FR Doc. 2015–15748 Filed 7–14–15; 8:45 am]
                                                   (vi) Beginning on January 1, 2018 and                                                                                      U.S. industrial base.
                                                thereafter, an FDIC-supervised                                  BILLING CODE                                                  DATES: This rule is effective August 14,
                                                institution that is a subsidiary of a                                                                                         2015.


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionRules and Regulations
ActionFinal rule.
DatesThis rule is effective on October 1, 2015.
ContactOCC: Margot Schwadron, Senior Risk Expert (202) 649-6982; or Mark Ginsberg, Principal Risk Expert (202) 649-6983, Capital Policy; or Kevin Korzeniewski, Senior Attorney, Legislative and Regulatory Activities Division, (202) 649-5490, for persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, TTY, (202) 649-5597, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20219.
FR Citation80 FR 41409 
RIN Number1557-AD88 and 3064-AE12
CFR Citation12 CFR 217
12 CFR 324
12 CFR 3
CFR AssociatedBanks; Banking; Federal Reserve System; Holding Companies; Securities; Administrative Practice and Procedure; Capital; National Banks; Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements; Risk; Capital Adequacy; Savings Associations and State Non-Member Banks

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