Board Actions

Actions taken during the week ending October 12, 2013

Forms

Forms -- initial Board review to extend with revision the Interchange Transaction Fees Surveys: Debit card issuer survey (FR 3064a) and Payment card network survey (FR 3064b).
-Proposed, October 11, 2013

Personnel

Division of Banking Supervision and Regulation -- appointment of Jeffery W. Gunther as deputy associate director.
-Approved, October 10, 2013

Division of Financial Management -- appointment of Chris Fields as associate director; Jeff Peirce as deputy associate director; and Karen Vassallo and Christopher Suma as assistant directors, effective October 21, 2013, as part of a division reorganization.
-Announced, October 7, 2013

Regulations and Policies

Regulation H (Membership of State Banking Institutions in the Federal Reserve System) -- publication for comment of interagency amendments to implement statutory changes regarding the mandatory purchase of flood insurance.
-Approved, September 3, 2013
(A/C)

Enforcement

Bank Hapoalim, B.M., Tel Aviv, Israel, and Bank Hapoalim, B.M., Miami Branch, Aventura, Florida -- written agreement dated July 8, 2009, terminated October 4, 2013.
-Announced, October 8, 2013