District Circular Letters

On August 17, 2012, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a proposal to amend Regulation Z, which implements the Truth in Lending Act (TILA) and the official interpretation to the regulation, which interprets the requirements of Regulation Z. Regulation Z generally prohibits a card issuer from opening a credit card account for a consumer, […]

The Federal Reserve Board on October 9, 2012, published two final rules with stress testing requirements for certain bank holding companies, state member banks, and savings and loan holding companies. The final rules implement sections 165(i)(1) and (i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that require supervisory and company-run stress tests. […]

Over the past few months, the federal regulatory agencies have issued a number of mortgage loan proposals. As they were issued through separate press releases by the various agencies, this letter is designed to bring the proposals together to facilitate easy access to source documentation. The table below also provides a high level overview of […]

Five federal agencies on September 26, 2012, reopened the comment period on a proposed rule to establish margin and capital requirements for swap dealers, major swap participants, security-based swap dealers, and major security-based swap participants for which one of the agencies is the prudential regulator, as required by sections 731 and 764 of the Dodd-Frank […]

On September 26, 2012, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) posted information on its website regarding the rule to implement consumer protections created by the Dodd-Frank Act for certain electronic transfers for funds to other countries – the remittance rule – the rule goes into effect on February 7, 2013. Specifically, the CFPB is undertaking […]

On September 18, 2012, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) announced the availability of data on mortgage lending transactions at 7,632 U.S. financial institutions covered by the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies. The HMDA data made availability in this release cover 2011 lending […]

The federal banking regulatory agencies on September 4, 2012, announced the availability of a regulatory capital estimation tool to help community banking organizations and other interested parties evaluate recently published regulatory capital proposals. The tool will assist these organizations in estimating the potential effects on their capital ratios of the agencies' Basel III Notice of […]

On September 10, 2012, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $3 billion in 28-day term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility.

On Monday, September 10, 2012, the Federal Reserve will offer $3 billion in 28-day term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. As noted in the Federal Reserve Board's September 8, 2010 release, this offering is part of ongoing small-value operations designed to provide eligible institutions with an opportunity to become familiar with term deposit operations.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco will conduct an election under the provisions of Section 4 of theFederal Reserve Act to choose successors to the following directors of this Bank, whose terms expire on December 31, 2012: