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Banks file Call Report data with the agencies each quarter for the agencies' use in monitoring the condition, performance, and risk profile of reporting banks and the industry as a whole. In addition, Call Report data provide the most current statistical data available for evaluating bank corporate applications such as mergers, for identifying areas of focus for both on-site and off-site examinations, and for monetary and other public policy purposes. Call Report data are also used to calculate all banks' deposit insurance and Financing Corporation assessments and national banks' semiannual assessment fees.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Reform Act of 2005 (Reform Act) (Pub. L. 109-171), enacted in February 2006, increased the deposit insurance limit for certain retirement plan deposit accounts from $100,000 to $250,000. The basic insurance limit for other depositors—individuals, joint accountholders, businesses, government entities, and trusts—remains at $100,000. The FDIC issued an interim rule to implement this increase in coverage and other provisions of the Reform Act pertaining to deposit insurance coverage effective April 1, 2006 (71 FR 14629).
“Retirement deposit accounts” that are eligible for $250,000 in deposit insurance coverage are deposits made in connection with the following types of retirement plans: Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), including traditional and Roth IRAs; Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) plans; “Section 457” deferred compensation plans; self-directed Keogh (HR 10) plans; and self-directed defined contribution plans, which are primarily 401(k) plan accounts. The term “self-directed” means that the plan participants have the right to direct how their funds are invested, including the ability to direct that the funds be deposited at an FDIC-insured institution. Retirement deposit accounts exclude Coverdell Education Savings Accounts, formerly known as Education IRAs.
At present, all banks report the number and amount of deposit accounts of (a) $100,000 or less and (b) more than $100,000 in Call Report Schedule RC-O, Memorandum items 1.a.(1) through 1.b.(2). This information provides the basis for calculating “simple estimates” of the amount of insured and uninsured deposits and is the only information reported by individual banks with less than $1 billion in total assets pertaining to their estimated uninsured deposits. In 2003, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved a revision to the Call Report information collection pursuant to the Paperwork Reduction Act that provided that “for the Memorandum items on the number and amount of deposit accounts by size of account in the insurance assessments schedule (Schedule RC-O), the dollar amount for the size of an account represents the deposit insurance limit in effect on the report date.”
Therefore, in response to the change in the deposit insurance coverage for “retirement deposit accounts,” which creates a different level of coverage than for all other deposit accounts, the agencies are adding new Memorandum items 1.c.(1) through 1.d.(2) to Call Report Schedule RC-O effective June 30, 2006. As revised, Memorandum item 1 (including its subitems) would be as follows:
1. Total deposits (in domestic offices) of the bank (and in insured branches in Puerto Rico and U.S. territories and possession):
a. Deposit accounts (excluding retirement accounts) of $100,000 or less:
b. Deposit accounts (excluding retirement accounts) of more than $100,000:
c. Retirement deposit accounts of $250,000 or less:
d. Retirement deposit accounts of more than $250,000:
In addition, banks with $1 billion or more in total assets report the estimated amount of their uninsured deposits in Schedule RC-O, Memorandum item 2.
Banks also report data on fully insured brokered deposits in Call Report Schedule RC-E, Memorandum items 1.c.(1), “Issued in denominations of less than $100,000,” and 1.c.(2), “Issued either in denominations of $100,000 or in denominations greater than $100,000 and participated out by the broker in shares of $100,000 or less.” With the change in the insurance coverage for “retirement deposit accounts,” the instructions for these items are being updated effective June 30, 2006. As revised, the instructions state that, for brokered deposits that represent retirement deposit accounts eligible for $250,000 in deposit insurance coverage, banks should report such brokered deposits in Schedule RC-E, Memorandum item 1.c.(1), only if they have been issued by the bank in denominations of less than $100,000. Banks should report such brokered deposits in Schedule RC-E, Memorandum item 1.c.(2), if they have been issued by the bank (a) in denominations of exactly $100,000 through exactly $250,000 or (b) in denominations greater than $100,000 that have been participated out by the broker in shares of $250,000 or less.
The Reform Act also provided for the merger of the two deposit insurance funds administered by the FDIC (the Bank Insurance Fund (BIF) and the Savings Association Insurance Fund (SAIF)), a merger that the FDIC effected on March 31, 2006. As a result, banks with “Oakar deposits,”
The preceding reporting changes will take effect in the Call Report for June 30, 2006. For this June 30 report date only, banks may provide reasonable estimates for any new or revised item for which the requested information is not readily available.
After banks make any necessary changes to their systems and records, the agencies estimate that these deposit-related reporting changes will produce an average net increase of 0.5 hours per bank per year in the ongoing reporting burden of the Call Report.
The agencies will monitor the impact of the new deposit insurance limits on bank practices and may propose additional revisions to the Call Report in the future to address supervisory or other public policy concerns resulting from any changes in bank practices.
In March 2006, OMB approved the agencies' request to add new items 7.c.(1) and (2) to Call Report Schedule RC-L to collect information on the maximum amounts that the reporting bank can collect or must pay on the credit derivatives into which it has entered. These items were to be added to the Call Report effective September 30, 2006.