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FED ER AL R E SE R V E B AN K
OF DALLAS

Dallas, Texas, June 27, 1936

AMENDMENTS OF REGULATION U
EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1936

To the Bank Addressed:

On June 25, 1936, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System adopted, in the form
set forth below, amendments Nos. 1 and 2 of Regulation U. These amendments will become effective
July 1, 1936.
For your future guidance, please attach this letter to the copy of Regulation U enclosed to you
with our circular letter of April 4, 1936.

Yours very truly,
b. a

. M cK i n n e y ,
President

Amendment No. 1
Section 2 of Regulation U is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof two new subsections
reading as follows:
“ (j) Any loan to a member of a national securities exchange for the purpose of
financing his or his customers’ bona fide arbitrage transactions in securities;
(k) Any loan to a member of a national securities exchange for the purpose of
financing such member’s transactions as an odd-lot dealer in securities with respect to
which he is registered on such national securities exchange as an odd-lot dealer.”

Amendment No. 2
Subsection (e) of section 3 of Regulation U is hereby amended to read as follows:
“ (e) A bank may accept the transfer of a loan from another bank, or permit the
transfer of a loan between borrowers, without following the requirements of this Regu­
lation as to the making of a loan, provided the loan is not increased and the collateral for
the loan is not changed; and, after such transfer, a bank may permit such withdrawals
and substitutions of collateral as the bank might have permitted if it had, been the original
maker of the loan or had originally made the loan to the new borrower.”

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