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FEDERAL
I

RESERVE

BOARD

STATEJVJENT FOR THE "CRESS.

X-1905

For release on Monday morning,
April 19th, 1920.

On Saturday, April 17, 1920, the Federal Reserve

Board approved the articles of association and organization

.

certificate of the First Federal Foreign Banking Association,
'

a corooration organized under the terms of Section 25 (a)
of the Federal Reserve Act, commonly lmown as the "Edge Act.
The

home office of the cornoration is New York.

is $2 1 000,000.

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Its capital

It is inco~orated for the purnose of engaging

in the business of international or foreign banking or other
international or foreign financial operations.

Pending the issue

by the Federal Reserve Boarcl. of a final permit to c ornmence
business the corporation has authority to exercise only those
~owers

which are incidental and preliminary to its organization.

Washington, D.C.
A-pril 17,1920.