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September 26, 2007

Annual adjustments for reserve calculations and
deposit reporting, Regulation D
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The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the annual
indexing of the reserve requirement exemption amount and of the low
reserve tranche for 2008. These amounts are used in the calculation of
reserve requirements of depository institutions. The Board also
announced the annual indexing of the nonexempt deposit cutoff level
and the reduced reporting limit that will be used to determine deposit
reporting panels effective 2008.
All depository institutions must hold a percentage of certain types of
deposits as reserves in the form of vault cash, as a deposit in a Federal
Reserve Bank, or as a deposit in a pass-through account at a
correspondent institution. Reserve requirements currently are assessed
on the depository institution's net transaction accounts (mostly checking
accounts). Depository institutions must also regularly submit deposit
reports of their deposits and other reservable liabilities.
For net transaction accounts in 2008, the first $9.3 million, up from $8.5
million in 2007, will be exempt from reserve requirements. A 3 percent
reserve ratio will be assessed on net transaction accounts over $9.3
million up to and including $43.9 million, down from $45.8 million in
2007. A 10 percent reserve ratio will be assessed on net transaction
accounts in excess of $43.9 million.
These annual adjustments, known as the low reserve tranche

adjustment and the reserve requirement exemption amount adjustment,
are based on growth in net transaction accounts and total reservable
liabilities, respectively, at all depository institutions between June 30,
2006, and June 30, 2007.
For depository institutions that report weekly, the low reserve tranche
adjustment and the reserve requirement exemption amount adjustment
will apply to the fourteen-day reserve computation period that begins
Tuesday, November 20, 2007, and the corresponding fourteen-day
reserve maintenance period that begins Thursday, December 20, 2007.
For depository institutions that report quarterly, the low reserve tranche
adjustment and the reserve requirement exemption amount adjustment
will apply to the seven-day reserve computation period that begins
Tuesday, December 18, 2007, and the corresponding seven-day
reserve maintenance period that begins Thursday, January 17, 2008.
The Board also announced changes in two other amounts, the
nonexempt deposit cutoff level and the reduced reporting limit, that are
used to determine the frequency with which depository institutions must
submit deposit reports. The attached Federal Register notice contains a
description of the new boundaries for deposit reporting that will be
effective in 2008.
The Board's notice is attached.
Federal Register Notice 54 KB PDF | TEXT

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