Board Actions

Actions taken during the week ending December 24, 2016

Forms

Forms -- final Board review to extend with revision the Capital Assessments and Stress Testing information collection (FR Y-14A/Q/M).
-Approved, December 19, 2016

Regulations and Policies

Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) -- final rule to implement public disclosure requirements for depository institution holding companies and nonbank financial companies subject to the LCR requirements, and extension of compliance period for companies newly subject to the modified LCR rule.
-Approved, December 18, 2016

Rules Regarding Availability of Information -- interim final rules with requests for comment by the Board and the Federal Open Market Committee to amend their regulations for processing requests under the Freedom of Information Act to reflect provisions of the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016.
-Announced, December 23, 2016

Reserve Bank Operations

Reserve Bank Directors -- designation of chairs and deputy chairs of the Federal Reserve Banks for 2017, and associated reappointments of directors.
-Approved, December 7, 2016
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Enforcement

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., Bilbao, Spain; and BBVA Securities, Inc., New York, New York -- issuance of a consent order of assessment of a civil money penalty.
-Approved, December 19, 2016

Cole Taylor Bank, Chicago, Illinois -- cease-and-desist order dated June 26, 2014, terminated December 1, 2016.
-Announced, December 22, 2016

Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama -- issuance of a notice of prohibition against Richard Henderson and Philip Cooper, former institution-affiliated parties of Regions Bank.
-Approved, December 19, 2016

Rock Bancshares, Inc., Little Rock, Arkansas, and Heartland Bank -- written agreement with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
-Announced, December 20, 2016