Bank Holding Company/Change in Control
2003 Letters
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December 19, 2003
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To Isaac B. Lustgarten, indicating provision of fleet management services to some non-leased vehicles is an activity incidental to the bank holding company�s authorized leasing activities, provided the bank holding company�s leasing subsidiary limits its fleet management services involving vehicles not subject to a Regulation Y permissible lease to no more than 15 percent of the fleet management revenues, and 5 percent of the total leasing revenues of the leasing subsidiary. 12 CFR 225.28(b)(3) n.5.
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August 18, 2003
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To National City corporation, granting an exception from the anti-tying
prohibitions of section 106 of the Bank Holding Company Act Amendments of
1970 (12 U.S.C. � 1972). The exception permits National City's subsidiary
banks ("Banks") to require borrowers whose loans from Banks are secured
with publicly traded securities to keep those securities in accounts at a
broker-dealer affiliate of National City, if the requirement is limited in
scope and the accounts are subject to certain restrictions.
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May 14, 2003
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To Gregory J. Lyons in response to an inquiry on behalf of State Street Bank and Trust Company regarding the regulatory capital status of an indemnified agency securities lending program of the bank. Under State Street�s program, the bank, acting as agent, lends out securities of a client on a cash-collateralized basis and reinvests, on its client�s behalf, the cash collateral received from the securities borrower by lending it on a fully secured basis. The bank also indemnifies its client against the risk that the securities borrower would fail to return the lent securities and against the client�s reinvestment risk on the cash collateral. The letter permits State Street to compute its regulatory capital for these transactions by assigning the risk weight of the counterparty to the exposure amount of all such transactions with the counterparty. The bank must calculate the exposure amount as the sum of the bank�s current unsecured exposure on its portfolio of transactions with the counterparty plus an add-on for potential future exposure estimated using the bank�s internal VaR model.
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