[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 9 (Thursday, January 14, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1948-1949]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-00589]
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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
[Docket No. 1530 RIN 7100 AE 44]
Regulation Q; Regulatory Capital Rules: Risk-Based Capital
Surcharges for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies
AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board)
is providing this notice pursuant to the Board's rule regarding risk-
based capital surcharges for global systemically important bank holding
companies (GSIB surcharge rule). The GSIB surcharge rule provides that
the Board will publish each year the aggregate global indicator amounts
for purposes of a calculation required under the rule. Accordingly, and
pursuant to the GSIB surcharge rule, the Board is hereby publishing the
aggregate global indicator amounts for 2015.
DATES: Effective: January 14, 2016.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Anna Lee Hewko, Deputy Associate
Director, (202) 530-6260, Constance M. Horsley, Assistant Director,
(202) 452-5239, Juan C. Climent, Manager, (202) 872-7526, or Holly
Kirkpatrick, Supervisory Financial Analyst, (202) 452-2796, Division of
Banking Supervision and Regulation; or Benjamin McDonough, Special
Counsel, (202) 452-2036, or Mark Buresh, Senior Attorney, (202) 452-
5270, Legal Division. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System,
20th and C Streets NW., Washington, DC 20551. For the hearing impaired
only, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) users may contact
(202) 263-4869.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board's GSIB surcharge rule establishes
a methodology to identify global systemically important bank holding
companies in the United States (GSIBs) based on indicators that are
correlated with systemic importance.\1\ Under the GSIB surcharge rule,
a firm must calculate its GSIB score using a specific formula (Method
1). Method 1 uses five equally-weighted categories that are correlated
with systemic importance--size, interconnectedness, cross-
jurisdictional activity, substitutability, and complexity--and
subdivided into twelve systemic indicators. For each indicator, a firm
divides its own measure of each systemic indicator by an aggregate
global indicator amount.
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The firm's Method 1 score is the sum of its weighted systemic indicator
scores. The GSIB surcharge for the firm is then the higher of the GSIB
surcharge determined under Method 1 and a second method that weights
size, interconnectedness, cross-jurisdictional activity, complexity,
and reliance on wholesale funding (instead of substitutability).\2\
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\1\ See 12 CFR 217.402, 217.404.
\2\ The second method (Method 2) uses similar inputs to those
used in Method 1, but replaces the substitutability category with a
measure of a firm's use of short-term wholesale funding. In
addition, Method 2 is calibrated differently from Method 1.
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The aggregate global indicator amounts used in the score
calculation under Method 1 are based on data collected by the Basel
Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The BCBS amounts are
determined based on the sum of the systemic indicator scores of the 75
largest U.S. and foreign banking organizations as measured by the BCBS,
and any other banking organization that the BCBS includes in its sample
total for that year. The BCBS publicly releases these values in euros
each year. To account for changes in currency values, the GSIB
surcharge rule indicates that the Board will publish the aggregate
global indicator amounts each year in U.S. dollars.\3\
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\3\ 12 CFR 217.404(b)(1)(i)(B); 80 FR 49082, 49086-87 (August
14, 2015).
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The aggregate global indicator amounts for purposes of the Method 1
score calculation under the GSIB surcharge rule for 2015, which were
calculated as part of the end-2014 GSIB assessment, are:
Aggregate Global Indicator Amounts in U.S. Dollars (USD) for 2015
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Aggregate global indicator
Category Systemic indicator amount in USD (end-2014
assessment)
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Size........................................ Total exposures..................... 89,657,702,623,292
Interconnectedness.......................... Intra-financial system assets....... 9,553,265,287,432
Intra-financial system liabilities.. 10,766,503,932,080
Securities outstanding.............. 14,829,559,920,658
Substitutability/financial institution Payments activity................... 2,588,833,244,898,340
infrastructure. Assets under custody................ 141,055,159,810,929
Underwritten transactions in debt 6,457,421,866,621
and equity markets.
Complexity.................................. Notional amount of over-the-counter 773,613,780,418,221
(OTC) derivatives. 3,983,442,843,602
Trading and available-for-sale (AFS)
securities.
Level 3 assets...................... 799,000,645,785
Cross-jurisdictional activity............... Cross-jurisdictional claims......... 20,924,671,362,004
Cross-jurisdictional liabilities.... 19,029,188,523,805
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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.
By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System, January 11, 2016.
Robert deV. Frierson,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2016-00589 Filed 1-13-16; 8:45 am]
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