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Federal R eserve Bank
OF DALLAS
ROBERT
AND

D. M c T E E R , J R .

p re s id e n t
C H IE F E X E C U T IV E

D ALLAS. TE X A S
O F F IC E R

April 23, 1993
Notice 93-47

TO:

The Chief Executive Officer of
each financial institution in the
Eleventh Federal Reserve District
SUBJECT
Amendments to Regulation 0
(Loans to Executive Officers, Directors,
and Principal Shareholders of Member Banks)
DETAILS

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System has published amendments in slip-sheet form to
Regulation 0, effective February 1993. The new slip
sheet should be inserted in your Regulations binder.
ENCLOSURE
The new slip sheet is enclosed.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information, please contact Jane
Anne Schmoker at (214) 922-5104.
For additional copies
of this B a n k ’s notice and the slip sheet, please con­
tact the Public Affairs Department at (214) 922-5254.
Sincerely yours,

For additional copies, bankers and others are encouraged to use one of the following toll-free numbers
in contacting the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas: Dallas Office (800) 333-4460; El Paso Branch
Intrastate (800) 592-1631, Interstate (800) 351-1012; Houston Branch Intrastate (800) 392-4162,
Interstate (800) 221-0363; San Antonio Branch Intrastate (800) 292-5810.

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Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Amendments to Regulation O
Loans to Executive Officers, Directors,
and Principal Shareholders of Member Banks
February 1993*

1. Effective December 17, 1992, section 215.2
(I) is am ended to read as follows:
(I)(I) Principal shareholder means a per­
son (other than an insured bank) that
directly or indirectly, or acting through
or in concert with one or more persons,
owns, controls, or has the power to vote
more than 10 percent of any class of vot­
ing securities of a member bank or com­
pany. Shares owned or controlled by a
member of an individual’s immediate
family are considered to be held by the
individual.
(2) A principal shareholder of a mem­
ber bank includes—
(i) a principal shareholder of a com­
pany of which the member bank is a
subsidiary, and
(ii) a principal shareholder of any
other subsidiary of that company.
(3) A principal shareholder of a mem­
ber bank does not include a company of
which a member bank is a subsidiary.

officers, diectors, principal sharehold­
ers, or employees of the bank;
(B) does not involve more than the
normal risk of repayment or present
other unfavorable features; and
(C) the bank follows credit under­
writing procedures that are not less
stringent than those applicable to
comparable transactions by the bank
with persons who are not executive
officers, directors, principal sharehold­
ers, or employees of the bank.

2. Section 22(h)(2) o f the Federal Reserve Act
is corrected to read as follows:
(2 ) A member bank may extend credit to
its executive officers, directors, or principal
shareholders, or to any related interest of
such a person, only if the extension of cred­
it—
(A ) is made on substantially the same
terms, including interest rates and collat­
eral, as those prevailing at the time for
comparable transactions by the bank
with persons who are not executive

*A complete Regulation O, as amended effective Decem­
ber 17, 1993, consists of—
•
•

the regulation pam phlet dated July 1992 (see inside
cover) and
this slip sheet.

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