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Vol. 84

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No. 212

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Part VI





Federal Reserve System

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12 CFR Parts 243 and 381





 Resolution Plans Required; Final Rule

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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

12 CFR Part 243

[Regulation QQ; Docket No. R-1660]
RIN 7100-AF47

FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

12 CFR Part 381

RIN 3064-AE93


Resolution Plans Required

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Corporation).

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Board and the Corporation (together, the agencies) are 
jointly adopting this final rule implementing the resolution planning 
requirements of section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 
Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). This final rule is 
intended to reflect improvements identified since the agencies 
finalized their joint resolution plan rule in November 2011 (2011 rule) 
and to address amendments to the Dodd-Frank Act made by the Economic 
Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA). 
Through this final rule, the Board is also establishing risk-based 
categories for determining the application of the resolution planning 
requirement to certain U.S. and foreign banking organizations, 
consistent with section 401 of EGRRCPA. The final rule also extends the 
default resolution plan filing cycle, allows for more focused 
resolution plan submissions, and improves certain aspects of the 
resolution planning rule.

DATES: This rule is effective December 31, 2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    Board: Mona Elliot, Deputy Associate Director, (202) 912-4688, 
Catherine Tilford, Assistant Director, (202) 452-5240, Kathryn 
Ballintine, Lead Financial Institution Policy Analyst, (202) 452-2555, 
or Tudor Rus, Lead Financial Institution Policy Analyst, (202) 475-
6359, Division of Supervision and Regulation; or Laurie Schaffer, 
Associate General Counsel, (202) 452-2272, Jay Schwarz, Special 
Counsel, (202) 452-2970, Steve Bowne, Senior Counsel, (202) 452-3900, 
or Sarah Podrygula, Attorney, (202) 912-4658, Legal Division, Board of 
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 20th and C Streets NW, 
Washington, DC 20551. For users of Telecommunications Device for the 
Deaf (TDD), (202) 263-4869.
    Corporation: Lori J. Quigley, Deputy Director, Institutions 
Monitoring Group, [email protected]; Robert C. Connors, Associate 
Director, Large Bank Supervision Branch, [email protected]; and 
Alexandra Steinberg Barrage, Associate Director, Resolution Strategy 
and Policy, Division of Complex Institution Supervision & Resolution, 
[email protected]; or David N. Wall, Assistant General Counsel, 
[email protected]; Celia Van Gorder, Supervisory Counsel, 
[email protected]; Dena S. Kessler, Counsel, [email protected]; or 
Ryan M. Rappa, Counsel, [email protected], Legal Division, Federal 
Deposit Insurance Corporation, 550 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 
20429.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Introduction
    A. Background
    B. Overview of the Proposed Rule
II. Overview of Comments
III. Final Rule
    A. Identification of Firms Subject to the Resolution Planning 
Requirement and Filing Groups
    1. Firms Subject to the Resolution Planning Requirement
    2. Filing Groups and Filing Cycle
    B. Resolution Plan Content
    1. General Guidance and Firm-Specific Feedback
    2. Material Changes and Extraordinary Events
    3. Full Resolution Plans
    4. Waivers of Informational Content Requirements
    5. Targeted Resolution Plans
    6. Reduced Resolution Plans
    7. Tailored Resolution Plans
    C. Critical Operations Methodology and Reconsideration Process
    1. Identification by Covered Companies and Methodology 
Requirement
    2. Identification by Agencies and Requests for Reconsideration
    D. Clarifications to the 2011 Rule
    1. Resolution Strategy for Foreign-Based Covered Companies
    2. Covered Companies in Multi-Tier Foreign Banking Organization 
Holding Companies
    3. Removal of the Incompleteness Concept and Related Review
    4. Assessment of New Covered Companies
    5. Timing of New Filings, Firms That Change Filing Categories
    6. Clarification of the Mapping Expectations for Foreign Banking 
Organizations
    7. Standard of Review
    8. Deletion of ``Deficiencies'' Relating to Management 
Information Systems
    9. Incorporation by Reference
    E. Technical and Conforming Changes From the Proposal
    F. Board Delegation of Authority
IV. Effective Date and Transition Period
V. Impact Analysis
VI. Regulatory Analysis
    A. Paperwork Reduction Act
    B. Regulatory Flexibility Act
    C. Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act 
of 1994
    D. Plain Language
    E. The Congressional Review Act

I. Introduction

A. Background

    Section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act \1\ and the 2011 rule \2\ 
require certain financial companies (covered companies) to report 
periodically to the agencies their plans for rapid and orderly 
resolution under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (the Bankruptcy Code) in the 
event of material financial distress or failure. The goal of the Dodd-
Frank Act resolution planning process is to help ensure that a covered 
company's failure would not have serious adverse effects on financial 
stability in the United States. The Dodd-Frank Act and the 2011 rule 
require a covered company to submit a resolution plan for review by the 
agencies. The resolution planning process requires covered companies to 
demonstrate that they have adequately assessed the challenges that 
their structures and business activities pose to a rapid and orderly 
resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure and 
that they have taken action to address those challenges, including 
through the development of capabilities appropriate to the covered 
company's size and complexity.
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    \1\ 12 U.S.C. 5365(d).
    \2\ 76 FR 67323 (November 1, 2011).
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    Implementation of the 2011 rule has been an iterative process aimed 
at strengthening the resolvability and resolution planning capabilities 
of covered companies. Since finalization of the 2011 rule, the agencies 
have reviewed multiple resolution plan submissions and have provided 
feedback on individual resolution plans following their review by the 
agencies (firm-specific feedback) and guidance directed to groups of 
firms (general guidance) to assist covered companies in their 
development of subsequent resolution plan submissions.
    EGRRCPA revised the resolution planning requirement as part of the 
changes the law made to application of the enhanced prudential 
standards in section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act. Specifically, EGRRCPA 
raised the $50 billion minimum asset threshold for general application 
of the resolution planning requirement to $250 billion in total 
consolidated assets, and provided the Board with discretion to apply 
the resolution planning requirement to firms with $100 billion or more 
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assets.\3\ The threshold increase occurs in two stages. Immediately on 
the date of EGRRCPA's enactment, firms with total consolidated assets 
of less than $100 billion (for foreign banking organizations, $100 
billion in total global assets) were no longer subject to the 
resolution planning requirement. Eighteen months after the date of 
EGRRCPA's enactment, the threshold increases to $250 billion in total 
consolidated assets. However, EGRRCPA provides the Board with the 
authority to apply resolution planning requirements to firms with $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated 
assets. Specifically, under section 165(a)(2)(C) of the Dodd-Frank Act, 
as revised by EGRRCPA, the Board may, by order or rule, apply the 
resolution planning requirement to any firm or firms with total 
consolidated assets of $100 billion (for foreign banking organizations, 
$100 billion in total global assets) or more.\4\
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    \3\ EGRRCPA also provides that any bank holding company, 
regardless of asset size, that has been identified as a U.S. global 
systemically important bank (U.S. GSIB) under the Board's U.S. GSIB 
surcharge rule shall be considered a bank holding company with $250 
billion or more in total consolidated assets for purposes of the 
application of the resolution planning requirement. EGRRCPA section 
401(f), Public Law 115 174, 132 Stat. 1296.
    \4\ 12 U.S.C. 5365(a); EGRRCPA section 401(a)(1)(B)(iii) (to be 
codified at 12 U.S.C. 5365(a)(2)(C)). See also EGRRCPA section 
401(g).
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    In May 2019, the agencies invited comment on a proposal to amend 
and restate the 2011 rule (the proposed rule or proposal).\5\ The 
proposed rule was intended to address amendments to the Dodd-Frank Act 
made by the EGRRCPA and improve certain aspects of the 2011 rule based 
on the agencies' experience implementing the 2011 rule since its 
adoption. The agencies are now finalizing the proposed rule, with 
certain changes based on public comments on the proposed rule, as 
described in detail below.
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    \5\ 84 FR 21600 (May 14, 2019).
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The Board's Tailoring Rules
    Consistent with section 401 of EGRRCPA, the Board finalized two 
separate proposals to revise the framework for determining the 
prudential standards that should apply to large U.S. banking 
organizations (domestic tailoring rule) \6\ and to large foreign 
banking organizations (FBO tailoring rule \7\ and together with the 
domestic tailoring rule, the tailoring rules). Among other provisions, 
the tailoring rules identify distinct standards applicable to firms for 
the purpose of calibrating requirements. The tailoring categories 
established in the tailoring rules are as follows:
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    \6\ Prudential Standards for Large Bank Holding Companies and 
Savings and Loan Holding Companies, 83 FR 61408 (November 29, 2018). 
The Board's final rule is published elsewhere in this issue of the 
Federal Register and is also available on the Board's website at 
https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/files/tailoring-rule-fr-notice-20191010a2.pdf.
    \7\ Prudential Standards for Large Foreign Banking 
Organizations; Revisions to Proposed Prudential Standards for Large 
Domestic Bank Holding Companies and Savings and Loan Holding 
Companies, 84 FR 21988 (May 15, 2019). The Board's final rule is 
published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal Register and is 
also available on the Board's website at https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed/boardmeetings/files/tailoring-rule-fr-notice-20191010a2.pdf.
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     Category I standards will apply to:
    [cir] Global systemically important bank holding companies (U.S. 
GSIBs),
     Category II standards will apply to:
    [cir] U.S. firms that are not subject to Category I standards with 
(a) $700 billion or more in average total consolidated assets, or (b) 
$100 billion or more in average total consolidated assets that have $75 
billion or more in average cross-jurisdictional activity, and
    [cir] Foreign banking organizations with (a) $700 billion or more 
in average combined U.S. assets,\8\ or (b) $100 billion or more in 
average combined U.S. assets that have $75 billion or more in average 
cross-jurisdictional activity measured based on the foreign banking 
organization's combined U.S. operations.\9\
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    \8\ Combined U.S. assets means the sum of the consolidated 
assets of each top-tier U.S. subsidiary of the foreign banking 
organization (excluding any section 2(h)(2) company as defined in 
section 2(h)(2) of the Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 
1841(h)(2)), if applicable) and the total assets of each U.S. branch 
and U.S. agency of the foreign banking organization, as reported by 
the foreign banking organization on the FR Y-7Q.
    \9\ The combined U.S. operations of a foreign banking 
organization include any U.S. subsidiaries (including any U.S. 
intermediate holding company), U.S. branches, and U.S. agencies. In 
addition, for a foreign banking organization that is not required to 
form a U.S. intermediate holding company, combined U.S. operations 
refer to its U.S. branch and agency network and the U.S. 
subsidiaries of the foreign banking organization (excluding any 
section 2(h)(2) company as defined in section 2(h)(2) of the Bank 
Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. 1841(h)(2), if applicable) and any 
subsidiaries of such U.S. subsidiaries.
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     Category III standards will apply to:
    [cir] U.S. firms that are not subject to Category I or Category II 
standards with (a) $250 billion or more in average total consolidated 
assets, or (b) $100 billion or more in average total consolidated 
assets that have $75 billion or more in any of the following risk-based 
indicators: Average total nonbank assets, average weighted short-term 
wholesale funding, or average off-balance sheet exposure, and
    [cir] Foreign banking organizations that are not subject to 
Category II standards with (a) $250 billion or more in average combined 
U.S. assets, or (b) $100 billion or more in average combined U.S. 
assets that have $75 billion or more in any of the following risk-based 
indicators measured based on the combined U.S. operations: Average 
total nonbank assets, average weighted short-term wholesale funding, or 
average off-balance sheet exposure and
     Category IV standards will apply to:
    [cir] U.S. firms with $100 billion or more in average total 
consolidated assets that do not meet any of the thresholds specified 
for Categories I through III, and
    [cir] Foreign banking organizations with $100 billion or more in 
average combined U.S. assets that do not meet any of the thresholds 
specified for Categories II or III.
    These categories form the basis for the final rule's framework for 
imposing resolution planning requirements, with adjustments where 
appropriate. The categories are also used to tailor the content of the 
resolution planning requirements, taking into account covered 
companies' particular geographic footprints, operations, and 
activities, as described below.

B. Overview of the Proposed Rule

    Under the proposed rule, resolution planning requirements would 
have applied to (1) those firms that are statutorily required to submit 
resolution plans (i.e., U.S. and foreign banking organizations with 
$250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, the U.S. GSIBs, and 
any non-bank financial company designated by the Financial Stability 
Oversight Council (Council) for supervision by the Board) and (2) firms 
with total consolidated assets of $100 billion or more and less than 
$250 billion that would have been subject to Category II or III 
standards under the notices of proposed rulemaking for the tailoring 
rules. In particular, the Board would have applied resolution planning 
requirements to firms with total consolidated assets of $100 billion or 
more and less than $250 billion that would have had $75 billion or more 
in any of the following four risk-based indicators: Cross-
jurisdictional activity, nonbank assets, weighted short-term wholesale 
funding, or off-balance-sheet exposure. In the case of a foreign 
banking organization, resolution planning requirements would only have 
applied if the firm also had combined U.S. assets equal to $100 billion 
or more, and the risk-based indicators would have been measured based 
on the firm's combined U.S. operations.
    The proposed rule would have divided firms subject to resolution

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planning requirements into three categories for purposes of determining 
submission frequency and resolution plan content requirements. The U.S. 
GSIBs would have been required to submit a resolution plan every two 
years, alternating between full and targeted resolution plans. Firms 
subject to Category II or III standards under the notices of proposed 
rulemaking for the tailoring rules would have been required to submit a 
resolution plan every three years, alternating between full and 
targeted resolution plans. Other foreign banking organizations subject 
to the proposed rule but not subject to Category II or III standards 
would have been required to submit a resolution plan every three years, 
with their initial filing being a full resolution plan and each 
subsequent submission being a reduced resolution plan. The proposal 
would have generally maintained the same informational content 
requirements for full resolution plans as under the 2011 rule, but 
would have established a new process whereby covered companies could 
request a waiver from certain informational content requirements in 
their full resolution plans. Under the proposal, covered companies 
would have been required to include in targeted resolution plans and 
reduced resolution plans information about certain changes since their 
previous resolution plan submission. Targeted resolution plans would 
also have included information about certain resolution planning core 
elements and information responsive to the agencies' targeted 
information requests.
    The proposed rule would also have made certain procedural changes 
to the provisions of the 2011 rule relating to the identification of 
critical operations. The proposal would have established formal 
processes for firms and the agencies to identify particular operations 
of covered companies as critical operations and to rescind prior 
critical operations identifications made by the agencies. In addition, 
the proposal would have specified a process for a covered company to 
request reconsideration of operations previously identified by the 
agencies as critical operations, and required that a covered company 
notify the agencies if it ceased to identify an operation as a critical 
operation.

II. Overview of Comments

    The agencies received and reviewed 14 comment letters on the 
proposed rule. Commenters included various financial services trade 
associations, covered companies, public interest groups, and 
individuals. In addition, the agencies met with industry 
representatives at their request to discuss issues relating to the 
proposed rule. This section provides an overview of the general themes 
raised by commenters. Comments are addressed in further detail in the 
below sections describing the final rule, including any changes that 
the agencies have made to the proposed rule in response to comments.

General Support and Opposition

    A number of commenters generally supported the proposed rule. These 
commenters supported the proposed rule's efforts to tailor resolution 
planning requirements to a firm's size, complexity, and risk profile, 
and asserted that the proposed rule would preserve and improve upon key 
elements of resolution planning while enhancing transparency and 
meaningfully reducing burden.\10\
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    \10\ Certain commenters also made assertions that characterized 
the agencies' views of prior resolution plan submissions under the 
2011 rule or the agencies' rationale for proposing certain changes 
to the 2011 rule. The agencies are not responding to or endorsing 
these assertions in this preamble. The agencies' views regarding 
individual resolution plans are communicated to covered companies 
following the agencies' review of those resolution plans. 
Separately, certain commenters proposed strengthening regulatory 
requirements that are unrelated to the resolution planning rule. 
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    Several commenters raised concerns about the proposed rule. These 
commenters generally asserted that the proposed rule would 
inappropriately weaken financial regulations put in place after the 
2008 financial crisis and thereby increase systemic risk. In addition, 
certain commenters asserted that the proposed rule inappropriately 
relied on burden reduction as a rationale for the proposed changes, was 
inconsistent with administrative law because the agencies did not 
provide sufficient justification for reducing the frequency and content 
of resolution plans, and was inconsistent with the Dodd-Frank Act. One 
commenter questioned whether firms would reallocate resources no longer 
needed to comply with the current rule to activities considered to be 
more beneficial, and whether any such benefit would accrue to the 
public at large. One commenter also asserted that the agencies should 
delay modifying the 2011 rule until it has been tested in an economic 
downturn, and another commenter asserted that the agencies should be 
cognizant of the effect of regulations on non-financial companies and 
small business lending. As further explained below, the final rule 
would continue to apply appropriate requirements on firms based on the 
relative risk that a firm's failure would pose to U.S. financial 
stability, and would preserve and improve upon key elements of the 
resolution planning framework that were put in place after the 2008 
financial crisis. The agencies believe that this approach is consistent 
with the Dodd-Frank Act, as amended by the EGRRCPA, which generally 
provides for the tailoring of enhanced prudential standards based on 
firms' capital structure, riskiness, complexity, financial activities 
(including financial activities of subsidiaries), size, and other risk-
related factors. Moreover, since the finalization of the 2011 rule, the 
agencies have reviewed multiple resolution plan submissions and have 
provided firm-specific feedback and general guidance to assist the 
covered companies in their development of subsequent resolution plan 
submissions. Consequently, covered companies' submissions and the 
agencies' firm-specific feedback and general guidance have matured over 
several resolution plan cycles, and the agencies believe this is an 
appropriate time to revise the 2011 rule to reflect improvements 
identified since it was originally adopted, including changes in the 
frequency and content of resolution plans, for the reasons stated in 
the proposal and this preamble.\11\
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    \11\ With respect to the timing of these changes, the agencies 
also note that, due to the effective date of section 401 of the 
EGRRCPA, the agencies believe it is important to complete revisions 
to the rule prior to the date that, pursuant to EGRRCPA, the 
resolution plan submission threshold increases to $250 billion in 
total consolidated assets.
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2019 and 2020 Plans

    The agencies received several comments from covered companies and 
industry representatives requesting clarification regarding resolution 
plan filing requirements for 2019 and 2020. On July 26, 2019, the 
agencies informed (1) covered companies with resolution plans due in 
December 2019 that their next resolution plan submission dates were 
extended to July 1, 2021 or such other date that may be specified when 
the agencies adopt the final rule and (2) Barclays PLC, Credit Suisse, 
Deutsche Bank AG, and UBS AG that the informational requirements for 
their July 2020 resolution plans may be limited to changes they have 
made to their 2018 resolution plans to address shortcomings identified 
in those resolution plans, and they are required to submit their next 
full resolution plans on July 1, 2021 or such other date that

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may be specified when the agencies adopt the final rule.\12\
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    \12\ See https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20190726a.htm; https://www.fdic.gov/news/news/press/2019/pr19069.html.
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Comments Related to the Corporation's IDI Rule

    The agencies received several comments asserting that the filing 
cycle or resolution plan content requirements under the final rule 
should align with the requirements under the Corporation's rule 
requiring certain insured depository institutions to submit resolution 
plans (the IDI rule).\13\ Some commenters also asserted that firms 
should be able to incorporate by reference information included in a 
resolution plan submitted pursuant to the IDI rule into a resolution 
plan submitted pursuant to the final rule. A commenter stated that the 
agencies should harmonize the informational content requirements for 
resolution plans under the final rule with resolution plans under the 
IDI rule for filers subject to Category III standards, and that doing 
so would permit these filers to focus their resolution planning efforts 
on a uniform resolution plan filing process.
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    The agencies have not modified the proposal on the basis of these 
comments. The agencies note that the final rule and the IDI rule are 
separate requirements with different purposes and goals, and that the 
IDI rule is administered by only the Corporation. In part because a 
resolution plan submitted pursuant to the IDI rule is submitted to only 
the Corporation, incorporating by reference such information into a 
resolution plan submitted pursuant to the final rule is more 
challenging than incorporation by reference of such information into a 
resolution plan submitted pursuant to the IDI rule. The agencies note 
that the Corporation has issued an advanced notice of proposed 
rulemaking regarding the IDI rule. That advanced notice of proposed 
rulemaking notes, ``[t]o promote efficiency and reduce burden, the 
[Corporation] is encouraging the use of incorporation by reference to 
[resolution plan submissions required under section 165(d) of the Dodd-
Frank Act] where practicable.'' \14\ As the Corporation works to amend 
the IDI rule, the Corporation will seek to reduce unnecessary 
duplication between the IDI rule and the final rule.
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    \14\ 84 FR 16620, 16625 (April 22, 2019).
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Firms Subject to Resolution Planning Requirements

    The agencies received several comments regarding the Board's 
proposed scope of application for the resolution planning requirement. 
Certain commenters supported the Board's proposal to rely on the risk-
based indicators to identify those firms with $100 billion or more and 
less than $250 billion in total consolidated assets that would remain 
subject to resolution planning requirements under the final rule. 
However, some commenters recommended changes to the manner in which the 
risk-based indicators were proposed to be calculated or recommended 
that the Board further narrow the scope of coverage of the resolution 
planning requirement. Conversely, some commenters asserted that the 
proposed scope of coverage should be expanded so that more firms would 
be subject to the resolution planning requirement.

Filing Cycle

    The agencies received comments in support of and opposed to the 
proposed filing cycle. Some commenters asserted that a less-than-annual 
requirement would allow sufficient time for covered companies to 
integrate firm-specific feedback, while other commenters raised 
concerns that significant changes to resolvability could occur between 
less frequent resolution plan submissions. Some commenters asserted 
that covered companies generally begin to prepare their resolution 
plans at least one year prior to submission and recommended related 
changes to the proposed filing cycle to enhance the predictability of 
the timing of producing a resolution plan. For example, these 
commenters asserted that the final rule should include a formal 
timeline for the agencies to provide firm-specific feedback to covered 
companies within one year following a resolution plan submission and 
advanced notice requirements when the agencies require submission of a 
full resolution plan or an interim update, or alter resolution plan 
submission dates.

Informational Content

    Several commenters asserted that the proposal should further tailor 
informational content requirements among different categories and types 
of covered companies. Some of these commenters also expressed concern 
that certain covered companies within a category would have general 
guidance directed to them that is not appropriate for their category. 
Certain other commenters asserted that the proposed targeted resolution 
plans and reduced resolution plans would contain inadequate 
information. Some commenters supported the inclusion of a process by 
which covered companies would be able to request waivers from certain 
informational content requirements for their full resolution plans and 
asserted that it would help to streamline resolution plan submissions. 
However, some other commenters opposed the proposed firm-initiated 
waiver request process and asserted that it was unnecessary or would be 
subject to abuse by covered companies.

Critical Operations

    Numerous commenters asserted that the proposed timeline for 
identification and de-identification of a critical operation should be 
modified to provide covered companies with additional notice of new 
identifications prior to a resolution plan submission date. Some 
commenters asserted that the final rule should automatically exempt 
from the requirement to have a process for identifying critical 
operations any covered company that does not currently have an 
identified critical operation.
    The comments on the proposed rule and the agencies' related 
responses are discussed in further detail below.

III. Final Rule

A. Identification of Firms Subject to the Resolution Planning 
Requirement and Filing Groups

1. Firms Subject to the Resolution Planning Requirement
    Following EGRRCPA, three types of firms are statutorily subject to 
the resolution planning requirement:
     U.S. and foreign banking organizations with $250 billion 
or more in total consolidated assets,
     U.S. banking organizations identified as U.S. GSIBs, and
     Any designated nonbank financial companies that the 
Council has determined under section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act should 
be supervised by the Board.
    As discussed in the proposal, following EGRRCPA, the Board has the 
authority to apply the resolution planning requirement to firms with 
$100 billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated 
assets.\15\ In the proposal, the Board proposed to apply the risk-based 
indicators established in the notices of proposed rulemaking for the 
tailoring rules to

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identify those U.S. firms with total consolidated assets equal to $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion that would be subject to a 
resolution planning requirement. Consistent with the notices of 
proposed rulemaking for the domestic tailoring rule, the Board proposed 
to apply resolution planning requirements to U.S. bank holding 
companies with (a) total consolidated assets equal to $100 billion or 
more and less than $250 billion and (b) $75 billion or more in any of 
the following risk-based indicators: Cross-jurisdictional activity, 
nonbank assets, weighted short-term wholesale funding, or off-balance 
sheet exposure. Consistent with the notices of proposed rulemaking for 
the FBO tailoring rule, the Board proposed to apply resolution planning 
requirements to foreign banking organizations \16\ with (a) total 
global assets equal to $100 billion or more and less than $250 billion, 
(b) combined U.S. assets equal to $100 billion or more, and (c) $75 
billion or more in any of the risk-based indicators measured based on 
combined U.S. operations. In addition, the agencies proposed to use the 
risk-based indicators to divide U.S. and foreign firms into groups for 
the purposes of determining the frequency and informational content of 
resolution plan filings.
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    \15\ 12 U.S.C. 5365(a); EGRRCPA section 401(a)(1)(B)(iii) (to be 
codified at 12 U.S.C. 5365(a)(2)(C)). See also EGRRCPA section 
401(g).
    \16\ Consistent with the 2011 rule and the proposal, for 
purposes of the final rule, a foreign banking organization is a 
foreign bank that has a banking presence in the United States by 
virtue of operating a branch, agency, or commercial lending 
subsidiary in the United States or controlling a bank in the United 
States; or any company of which the foreign bank is a subsidiary.
    \17\ Projected categories are based on data for Q1 2019. Actual 
categories will be based on 4-quarter averages. For certain measures 
for foreign banks, conservative assumptions were used to estimate 
incomplete data.
    \18\ Firms subject to Category I standards will be the U.S. 
GSIBs. Any future Council-designated nonbank would file full and 
targeted plans on a two-year cycle, unless the agencies jointly 
determine the firm should file full and targeted plans on a three-
year cycle.
    \19\ Firms subject to Category II standards will be: (1) U.S. 
firms with (a) >=$700b average total consolidated assets; or (b) 
>=$100b average total consolidated assets with >=$75b in average 
cross-jurisdictional activity and (2) foreign banking organizations 
(FBOs) with (a) >=$700b average combined U.S. assets; or (b) >=$100b 
average combined U.S. assets with >=$75b in average cross-
jurisdictional activity.
    \20\ Firms subject to Category III standards will be: (1) U.S. 
firms with (a) >=$250b and <$700b average total consolidated assets; 
or (b) >=$100b average total consolidated assets with >=$75b in 
average total nonbank assets, average weighted short-term wholesale 
funding, or average off-balance sheet exposure and (2) FBOs with (a) 
>=$250b and <$700b average combined U.S. assets; or (b) >=$100b 
average combined U.S. assets with >=$75b in average total nonbank 
assets, average weighted short-term wholesale funding, or average 
off-balance sheet exposure.
    \21\ Other FBOs subject to resolution planning pursuant to 
statute are FBOs with >=$250b global consolidated assets that are 
not subject to Category II or Category III standards.
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Agricultural Bank of China
Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
Banco Bradesco
Banco De Sabadell
Banco Do Brasil
Banco Santander

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Bank of China
Bank of Communications
Bank of Montreal
Bank of Nova Scotia
Bayerische Landesbank
BBVA Compass
BNP Paribas
BPCE Group
Caisse Federale de Credit Mutuel
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
China Construction Bank Corporation
China Merchants Bank
CITIC Group Corporation
Commerzbank
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Cooperative Rabobank
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
DNB Bank
DZ Bank
Erste Group Bank AG
Hana Financial Group
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Industrial Bank of Korea
Intesa Sanpaolo
Itau Unibanco
KB Financial Group
KBC Bank
Landesbank Baden-Weurttemberg
Lloyds Banking Group
National Agricultural Cooperative Federation
National Australia Bank
Nordea Group
Norinchukin Bank
Oversea-Chinese Banking Corporation
Shinhan Bank
Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken
Societe Generale
Standard Chartered Bank
State Bank of India
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings
Svenska Handelsbanken
Swedbank
UniCredit Bank
United Overseas Bank
Westpac Banking Corporation
Woori Bank

    In the proposal, the Board noted that the thresholds and risk-based 
indicators identified in the categories were designed to take into 
account an individual firm's particular activities and organizational 
footprint that may present significant challenges to an orderly 
resolution. The Board proposed to apply a uniform threshold of $75 
billion for each of these risk-based indicators, based on the degree of 
concentration this amount would represent for each firm and the 
proportion of the risk factor among all U.S. firms with $100 billion or 
more in total consolidated assets that would be included by the 
threshold.
    In the proposal, the Board noted that increased levels of cross-
jurisdictional activity could increase operational complexity and that 
it may be more difficult to resolve or unwind a firm's positions due to 
the multiple jurisdictions and regulatory authorities involved and 
potential legal or regulatory barriers to transferring financial 
resources across borders. Similarly, the Board noted that bank holding 
companies with significant nonbank assets would be more likely to be 
engaged in activities such as prime brokerage, or complex derivatives 
and capital markets activities. Where a firm has not engaged in 
planning to address these particular challenges, it is less likely the 
firm's resolution would proceed in an orderly manner without unduly 
impacting other firms. Regarding weighted short-term wholesale funding, 
the Board noted that firms particularly reliant on short-term funding 
sources may be more vulnerable to large-scale funding runs or ``fire 
sale'' effects on asset prices and therefore proposed to continue to 
apply resolution planning requirements to firms with higher levels of 
potential liquidity vulnerability, as measured by the firm's weighted 
short-term wholesale funding. Finally, the Board noted that where a 
firm's activities result in large off-balance sheet exposure, the firm 
may be more vulnerable to significant draws on capital and liquidity in 
times of stress. The proposal therefore would have continued to apply 
resolution planning requirements to firms with this risk-based 
indicator.
    The agencies received several comments on the use of the four risk-
based indicators and associated thresholds.\22\ One commenter 
reiterated concerns that it described in its comment letter on the 
notices of proposed rulemaking for the tailoring rules and stated that 
its concerns regarding those notices applied equally to the proposed 
rule. Another commenter expressed general support for the risk-based 
indicator approach. Several commenters recommended changes to the 
calibration of U.S. assets and activity in the risk-based indicators 
for foreign banking organizations. One commenter argued against the 
inclusion of U.S. branches and agencies in the calculation of a foreign 
firm's combined U.S. assets or thresholds for risk-based indicators 
unless the operations of branches or agencies are significant to a 
critical operation. Instead, the commenter recommended that risk-based 
indicators be calculated consistent with how the strategic analysis 
requirements in the 2011 rule apply to U.S. branches, agencies, and 
offices. Another commenter argued against the use of U.S. branch assets 
in determining activity in risk-based indicators because branches are 
discrete entities from the U.S. intermediate holding companies and 
often have more stable funding.
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    \22\ This preamble responds to comments received on the proposed 
rule regarding the risk-based indicators. Responses to comments 
received on the notices of proposed rulemaking for the tailoring 
rules and additional information concerning the basis for the risk-
based indicators established under the tailoring rules are included 
in the notices of final rulemaking for the tailoring rules. See 
Board Final Rule, ``Prudential Standards for Large Bank Holding 
Companies, Savings and Loan Holding Companies, and Foreign Banking 
Organizations'' published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal 
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    The resolution planning requirement currently applies to a foreign 
banking organization's entire U.S. operations, including U.S. branches 
and agencies. U.S. branches and agencies constitute a significant share 
of these foreign banking organizations' presence in the United States. 
In addition, the agencies' experience reviewing resolution plans 
demonstrates that there are interconnections and dependencies between a 
foreign firm's U.S. branches, agencies, and offices and its U.S. 
subsidiaries, core business lines, and critical operations. The 
commenters' proposals to exclude certain U.S. branches, agencies, and 
offices from the calculation of the risk-based indicators or combined 
U.S. operations would not be consistent with the objective of measuring 
the full scope of potential risks to U.S. financial stability, 
including risks associated with operational complexity. Moreover, it is 
appropriate to tailor resolution planning requirements based on the 
size and complexity of a foreign firm's entire U.S. operations because 
the resolution planning requirement applies to a firm's entire U.S. 
operations. Accordingly, under the final rule, risk-based indicators 
and combined U.S. operations would be measured as proposed, including a 
foreign firm's U.S. branches, agencies, and offices.
    Two commenters expressed concerns with the use of asset thresholds 
to determine a firm's category unless the asset threshold is indexed to 
inflation or total U.S. banking assets. As further explained in the 
notices of final rulemaking for the tailoring rules, the $100 billion 
and $250 billion size thresholds prescribed in the Dodd-Frank Act, as 
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thresholds would add complexity, a degree of uncertainty, and potential 
discontinuity to the framework. The Board acknowledges the thresholds 
should be reevaluated over time to ensure they appropriately reflect 
growth on a macroeconomic and industry-wide basis, as well as to 
continue to support the objectives of the final rule. The Board plans 
to accomplish this by periodically reviewing the thresholds under the 
tailoring rules and proposing changes through notice and comment 
process, rather than including an automatic adjustment of thresholds 
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    \23\ Section 165 of the Dodd-Frank Act does provide the Board 
with discretion to establish a minimum asset threshold above the 
statutory thresholds for some, but not all, enhanced prudential 
standards. However, the Board may only utilize this discretion 
pursuant to a recommendation by the Financial Stability Oversight 
Council in accordance with section 115 of the Dodd-Frank Act. 12 
U.S.C. 5365(a)(2)(B).
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    Several commenters discussed the criteria for being subject to 
Category II standards. Two commenters supported the calibration of 
these criteria as proposed and asserted that no additional risk-based 
indicators should be used to determine whether a firm would be subject 
to Category II standards. These commenters opposed the use of 
additional risk-based indicators (e.g., weighted short-term wholesale 
funding, nonbank assets, or off balance-sheet exposure) and stated that 
such indicators would only be appropriate if the threshold were set to 
$210 billion. Another commenter stated that the criteria for being 
subject to Category II standards should not be based on exceeding the 
threshold for cross-jurisdictional activity only.
    As further explained in the notices of final rulemaking for the 
tailoring rules, significant cross-border activity can indicate 
heightened interconnectivity and operational complexity. Cross-
jurisdictional activity can add operational complexity in normal times 
and complicate the ability of a firm to undergo an orderly resolution 
in times of stress, generating risks to financial stability in the 
United States. In addition, cross-jurisdictional activity may present 
increased challenges in resolution because there could be legal or 
regulatory restrictions that prevent the transfer of financial 
resources across borders where multiple jurisdictions and regulatory 
authorities are involved. The cross-jurisdictional activity indicator 
and threshold is intended to identify firms with significant cross-
border activities. Accordingly, the tailoring rules apply Category II 
standards to domestic and foreign banking organizations with cross-
jurisdictional activity of $75 billion or more.
Alternative Scoping and Tailoring Criteria
    In the proposal, the Board also proposed an alternative approach 
for assessing the risk profile and systemic footprint of a U.S. banking 
organization and of a foreign banking organization's combined U.S. 
operations or U.S. intermediate holding company: Using a single, 
comprehensive score. The Board uses an identification methodology 
(scoring methodology) to identify a U.S. bank holding company as a U.S. 
GSIB and apply risk-based capital surcharges to these firms. The Board 
proposed using the same scoring methodology to determine whether to 
apply the resolution planning requirements to firms with $100 billion 
or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated assets.\24\ 
The agencies also proposed using this same scoring methodology to 
divide U.S. and foreign firms into groups to determine the frequency 
and informational content of resolution plan filings.
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    \24\ As discussed in further detail in the proposal, the scoring 
methodology in the Board's regulations that is used to calculate a 
U.S. GSIB's capital surcharge includes two methods (12 CFR part 217, 
subpart H). The first method is based on the sum of a firm's 
systemic indicator scores reflecting its size, interconnectedness, 
cross-jurisdictional activity, substitutability, and complexity 
(method 1). The second method is based on the sum of these same 
measures of risk, except that the substitutability measures are 
replaced with a measure of the firm's reliance on short-term 
wholesale funding (method 2).
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    One commenter directed agency staff to comments on the alternative 
scoping criteria in relation to the notices of proposed rulemaking for 
the tailoring rules. The comment generally expressed support for the 
risk-based indicator methodology rather than the alternative 
methodology, which the commenter described as flawed conceptually and 
in calibration.
    Under the tailoring rules, the Board finalized an indicators-based 
approach for applying Category II, III, or IV standards to the firms, 
as this approach provides a simple framework that supports the 
objectives of risk sensitivity and transparency. To determine whether a 
firm with total consolidated assets equal to $100 billion or more and 
less than $250 billion is subject to resolution planning requirements, 
the Board is finalizing the same indicators-based approach, requiring 
any such firm that is subject to Category II or III standards to submit 
resolution plans. As under the proposal, and as further described 
below, the agencies are similarly finalizing the indicators-based 
approach for determining the scope of resolution planning requirements 
for firms other than the U.S. GSIBs and nonbank financial companies 
supervised by the Board. The Board will continue to use the scoring 
methodology to apply Category I standards to a U.S. GSIB and, as under 
the proposal, the final rule relies on this identification for 
determining the scope of resolution planning requirements for these 
firms.
U.S. Covered Companies With $100 Billion or More and Less Than $250 
Billion in Total Consolidated Assets
    Under the proposed rule, resolution planning requirements would not 
have applied to U.S. firms with total consolidated assets of $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion whose activities did not 
exceed the threshold for any of the risk-based indicators (i.e., cross-
jurisdictional activity, nonbank assets, weighted short-term wholesale 
funding, or off-balance-sheet exposure). In the proposal, the Board 
noted that it was less likely that one of these firms' failure would 
present a risk of serious adverse effects on U.S. financial stability 
and that requiring a plan for rapid and orderly resolution in 
bankruptcy from such a firm may impose burden without sufficient 
corresponding benefit.
    The Board received several comments on this aspect of the proposal. 
One commenter expressed support for not applying the resolution 
planning requirements to U.S. firms subject to Category IV standards. 
Other commenters stated that the Board should apply resolution planning 
requirements to all firms with $100 billion or more and less than $250 
billion in total consolidated assets. A further commenter expressed 
concern that the proposal would not apply resolution planning 
requirements to any firm with less than $250 billion in total 
consolidated assets. The commenter asserted that, instead, resolution 
planning should be required for all firms with more than $100 billion 
in total consolidated assets because the Corporation's resolution 
authority under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act does not extend 
beyond a covered company's insured depository institution subsidiary, 
and that the resolution plan process under the final rule should be 
coordinated with the IDI rule. Another commenter expressed concerns 
about removing the resolution planning requirements for large regional 
banks, asserting that the agencies did not explain sufficiently the 
rationale for removing the requirement for U.S. firms subject to 
Category IV standards.
    The Board is finalizing this aspect of the proposal as proposed. In 
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rule, the Board notes that the proposal and final rule would continue 
to apply resolution planning requirements to some firms with $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated 
assets.\25\ As explained above, the final rule relies on the risk-based 
indicators to apply resolution planning requirements to firms in this 
group. The Board believes the risk-based indicators are an effective 
means for identifying those firms with total consolidated assets of 
$100 billion or more and less than $250 billion whose material 
financial distress or failure would pose a threat to U.S. financial 
stability, for the reasons described above, in the proposal, and in the 
proposed and final tailoring rules. Where a firm's activities in one or 
more of the risk-based indicators exceed the $75 billion threshold, it 
is more likely that its failure could adversely affect U.S. financial 
stability; accordingly, the firm should be subject to resolution 
planning requirements. However, when a firm's activities do not exceed 
one or more of the risk-based indicators and its total consolidated 
assets are less than $250 billion, it is less likely that the firm's 
failure would have serious adverse effects on U.S. financial stability 
and, accordingly, to impose resolution planning requirements on such a 
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    \25\ For this purpose, total consolidated assets are determined 
under the tailoring rules. Accordingly, a firm has total 
consolidated assets of $100 billion or more if the average of its 
total consolidated assets as reported on multiple regulatory 
reports, as specified in the tailoring rules, is $100 billion or 
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Foreign-Based Covered Companies With $100 Billion or More and Less Than 
$250 Billion in Total Global Assets
    In the proposal, the Board proposed applying resolution planning 
requirements to foreign banking organizations with (a) total global 
assets equal to $100 billion or more and less than $250 billion, (b) 
combined U.S. assets equal to $100 billion or more, and (c) $75 billion 
or more in any of the following risk-based indicators measured based on 
combined U.S. operations: Cross-jurisdictional activity, nonbank 
assets, weighted short-term wholesale funding, or off-balance-sheet 
exposure. The Board noted in the proposal that it would no longer 
require resolution plan submissions from foreign banking organizations 
with total global assets equal to $100 billion or more and less than 
$250 billion where (a) the firm has combined U.S. assets below $100 
billion or (b) the firm does not have $75 billion or more in any of the 
risk-based indicators measured based on combined U.S. operations.
    One commenter asserted that resolution planning requirements should 
be eliminated entirely for foreign firms with limited U.S. operations, 
regardless of their total global asset size, or, in the alternative, 
resolution planning requirements should apply to a foreign firm subject 
to Category IV standards only if it is a global systemically important 
financial institution. The commenter asserted that foreign firms should 
also be permitted to comply with resolution planning requirements 
pursuant to the final rule by certifying compliance with the home 
country resolution requirements.
    The Board is finalizing this aspect of the proposal as proposed. 
The Board notes that the Dodd-Frank Act, as amended by EGRRCPA, 
requires all foreign banking organizations with $250 billion or more in 
total global assets to submit resolution plans, and a certification of 
home country compliance by itself would not satisfy this statutory 
standard. Moreover, as explained above, the Board believes that the 
risk-based indicators are an effective means for identifying those 
firms that should be subject to resolution planning requirements due to 
the potential effect on U.S. financial stability of their financial 
distress or failure.
Exiting Covered Company Status
    The proposal would have updated the methodology for ascertaining 
when a firm ceased to be a covered company. With respect to a decrease 
in assets, under the proposal, a U.S. firm would have ceased to be a 
covered company when its total consolidated assets are less than $250 
billion based on total consolidated assets for each of the four most 
recent calendar quarters (and it is not otherwise subject to Category 
II or Category III standards based on the risk-based indicators 
identified above). A foreign banking organization that files quarterly 
reports on Form FR Y-7Q similarly would have been assessed on the basis 
of its total global assets for each of the four most recent calendar 
quarters. A foreign banking organization that files the Y-7Q report 
annually rather than quarterly would have been assessed based on its 
total global assets over two consecutive years. The agencies would have 
retained the discretion to jointly determine that a firm is no longer a 
covered company at an earlier time than it would be pursuant to its 
quarterly or annual reports. Under the proposal, firms that would have 
ceased to be, or to be treated as, bank holding companies or that were 
de-designated by the Council for supervision by the Board would no 
longer have been covered companies and would not have had any further 
resolution planning requirements as of the effective date of the 
applicable action unless there were a subsequent change to their 
status. The agencies received no comments on this aspect of the 
proposal and are finalizing it as proposed, but have clarified in the 
final rule that a firm's total consolidated assets are determined on 
the basis of total consolidated assets as reported on each of its four 
most recent quarterly reports or two most recent annual reports.
2. Filing Groups and Filing Cycle
    The proposal would have divided covered companies into three groups 
of filers: (a) Biennial filers; (b) triennial full filers; and (c) 
triennial reduced filers. Under the proposal, all covered companies 
would have had a July 1 submission date, instead of the current 
division between July 1 and December 31.
    The agencies received comments offering general support for the 
longer filing cycle and asserting that it would allow filers sufficient 
time to consider firm-specific feedback. The agencies also received 
comments suggesting that the current annual filing requirement be 
retained to reflect the potential for rapid changes to firms' structure 
and financial condition that may cause resolution plans to become 
outdated.
    The agencies note that the annual submission requirement has been a 
challenging constraint for both the firms and the agencies. The annual 
requirement did not provide sufficient time for the agencies to review 
the resolution plans and develop useful firm-specific feedback or 
general guidance, and for the firms to consider that firm-specific 
feedback or general guidance in their next resolution plan submissions. 
Independent of the proposal, the agencies have extended the resolution 
plan filing deadlines over the past few submission cycles to provide at 
least two years between resolution plan submissions. Accordingly, the 
agencies are finalizing an extended filing cycle, consistent with the 
proposal and described in more detail below.
    The agencies received one comment regarding the proposal to move 
the submission date to July 1 for all filers. The commenter suggested 
that the 2011 rule's December 31 submission date be retained for 
triennial full filers subject to Category III standards as this would 
allow more efficient allocation of resources for resolution planning 
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agencies are finalizing the July 1 submission date as proposed. Having 
one resolution plan submission date will simplify administration of the 
final rule for filers and the agencies, such as when filers change 
filing groups.
Biennial Filers
    In the proposal, the biennial filers would have comprised firms 
subject to Category I standards, or the U.S. GSIBs, as well as any 
nonbank financial company supervised by the Board that has not been 
jointly designated as a triennial full filer by the agencies. The 
agencies noted that any such designation of a nonbank financial company 
would be made taking into account the relevant facts and circumstances, 
including the degree of systemic risk posed by the particular covered 
company's failure.
    Since the failure of a firm in this group would pose the most 
serious threat to U.S. financial stability, the proposal would have 
applied the most stringent resolution planning requirements to biennial 
filers in terms of both submission frequency and informational content. 
Under the proposed rule, the biennial filers would have been required 
to submit a resolution plan every two years, alternating between a full 
resolution plan, subject to the waiver option, and a targeted 
resolution plan. The agencies noted that the U.S. GSIBs' resolution 
plans had matured over time and these firms had taken meaningful steps 
to develop the foundational capabilities necessary for the 
implementation of their resolution strategies. In addition, in recent 
years, the agencies have provided extensions under the 2011 rule to 
provide the biennial filers with two years between resolution plan 
submissions, so formalization of a two-year cycle would be consistent 
with established practice.
    The agencies received two comments on this aspect of the proposal. 
One commenter stated that the U.S. GSIBs should be required to submit 
full resolution plans every two years. Another commenter expressed 
general opposition to the two-year cycle and asserted that it would be 
insufficient to capture important information about firms' 
resolvability due to the speed with which changes can occur.
    The agencies are finalizing this aspect of the proposal as 
proposed. After several rounds of resolution plans, firm-specific 
feedback, and general guidance, the U.S. GSIBs' resolution plans have 
matured over time, making more frequent submissions generally 
unnecessary. In addition, experience under the 2011 rule has shown that 
an annual resolution plan submission schedule is too challenging a 
constraint for the reasons described above. The agencies note, however, 
that they retain the ability under the final rule to obtain key 
information between resolution plan submissions, including by requiring 
interim updates and receiving notices of extraordinary events, which 
will allow the agencies to remain informed of material developments 
affecting resolvability notwithstanding the less frequent filing cycle. 
The agencies also will have authority to require a full resolution plan 
instead of a targeted resolution plan and to move a resolution plan 
submission date.
Triennial Full Filers
    The proposal identified the second filing group, triennial full 
filers, as firms subject to Category II or III standards under the 
notices of proposed rulemaking for the tailoring rules, as well as any 
nonbank financial company supervised by the Board that was designated 
as a triennial full filer by the agencies.
    The agencies proposed that triennial full filers be on a three-year 
filing cycle rather than a two-year filing cycle because the failure of 
a triennial full filer would generally be less likely to pose a threat 
to U.S. financial stability as compared to the failure of a biennial 
filer. The proposal would have required triennial full filers to submit 
a resolution plan every three years, alternating between a full 
resolution plan and a targeted resolution plan.
    The agencies received several comments on the proposed three-year 
filing cycle for triennial full filers. One commenter expressed support 
for the proposed three-year cycle, and alternating between full and 
targeted resolution plans for firms subject to Category III standards. 
Another commenter stated that these firms should be on a biennial 
schedule, alternating between full and targeted resolution plans. One 
commenter expressed general opposition to the three-year cycle and 
asserted that it would be insufficient to capture important information 
about firms' resolvability due to the speed at which change can occur. 
Another commenter stated that firms that would be triennial full filers 
under the proposal should be allowed to submit targeted resolution 
plans every three years, absent an extraordinary event.
    The agencies are finalizing as proposed the three-year cycle for 
triennial full filers, alternating between full and targeted resolution 
plans. While the failure of a firm in this group could threaten U.S. 
financial stability, such failure is less likely to threaten U.S. 
financial stability as compared to the failure of a biennial filer. 
Accordingly, it is appropriate to tailor this group's requirements 
relative to the requirements for biennial filers. Given these firms' 
size and complexity, the agencies have determined that a triennial 
schedule is appropriate. In addition, as with biennial filers, the 
agencies would retain authority to require interim updates and full 
resolution plans, and to move resolution plan submission dates, and 
firms would be required to submit notices of extraordinary events, 
which would allow the agencies to remain informed of material 
developments affecting resolvability that occur between resolution plan 
submissions.
    The agencies are not adopting commenters' recommendation to limit 
all resolution plan submissions from triennial full filers to targeted 
resolution plans absent an extraordinary event because the agencies 
believe that, given the potential risks inherent in firms in this group 
and because firms and markets change over time, it is appropriate for 
these firms to submit a full resolution plan at least every six years. 
In addition, the agencies note that a firm may apply for a waiver from 
certain informational content requirements in its full resolution plan 
and incorporate by reference information in a prior submission that 
remains accurate in all respects that is material to the covered 
company's resolution plan, as described further below. These aspects of 
the final rule should appropriately tailor the burden of preparing a 
full resolution plan.
    In the proposal, the agencies also noted that the proposed 
triennial full filer group would have included foreign banking 
organizations that had previously received detailed general guidance 
from the agencies.\26\ These firms have taken important steps to 
enhance their resolvability and facilitate their orderly resolution in 
bankruptcy and have significantly reduced the size and risk profiles of 
their U.S. operations since the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act and in 
response to the implementation of Regulation YY,\27\ although the 
failure of one of these firms could potentially pose a threat to U.S. 
financial stability. The agencies stated that it was appropriate that 
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the triennial full filer group and submit resolution plans on the 
three-year filing cycle because the preferred outcome for each of these 
foreign banking organizations is a successful home country resolution 
using a single point of entry resolution strategy, not the resolution 
strategy described in its U.S. resolution plan.
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Plan Submissions By Foreign-based Covered Companies that Submitted 
Resolution Plans in July 2015, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/bcreg20170324a21.pdf, https://www.fdic.gov/resauthority/2018subguidance.pdf.
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    The agencies received one comment on this aspect of the proposal. 
The commenter asserted that the largest and most complex foreign 
banking organizations should submit resolution plans every two years, 
alternating between full and targeted resolution plans, because they 
pose similar risks to the U.S. financial system as the risks posed by 
the U.S. GSIBs. The commenter also stated that the rationale that these 
firms would be resolved through a home country single point of entry 
strategy was not compelling because the purpose of the resolution 
planning requirement is to plan for the failure of a U.S. entity.
    The agencies note that the U.S. footprints of the larger and more 
complex foreign banking organizations are significantly smaller than 
those of, and do not present the same complexities as, the U.S. GSIBs. 
Consequently, while the failure of these operations may threaten the 
U.S. financial system, it is less likely than the failure of a U.S. 
GSIB, regardless of whether the global firm executes its preferred 
resolution strategy successfully. Accordingly, the agencies believe 
that a longer filing cycle is appropriate for these firms and are 
finalizing this aspect of the proposal as proposed.
Triennial Reduced Filers
    The proposal identified a third group, triennial reduced filers, 
which would have consisted of any covered company that was not subject 
to Category I, II, or III standards and was not a nonbank financial 
company supervised by the Board. The proposal would have applied less 
stringent resolution planning requirements to firms in this group 
because they do not have the same size or complexity as firms that 
would have been subject to Category I, II, or III standards. Under the 
proposal, triennial reduced filers would have been required to submit 
reduced resolution plans every three years. The proposal also would 
have required a new triennial reduced filer to submit a full resolution 
plan as its initial submission and thereafter a reduced resolution plan 
every three years.
    The agencies received one comment on this aspect of the proposal. 
The commenter asserted that some of the larger triennial reduced filers 
should be on a biennial schedule, alternating between full and targeted 
resolution plans, and supported applying a longer filing cycle to the 
U.S. operations of certain smaller foreign firms.
    The agencies are finalizing the triennial reduced filer group and 
related filing cycle as proposed. Given the limited scope of these 
firms' U.S. operations and activities, the agencies have determined 
that it is appropriate for triennial reduced filers to submit reduced 
resolution plans on a three-year cycle; this requirement will 
appropriately tailor burden for these firms while ensuring that the 
agencies remain apprised of changes that could materially affect the 
firms' resolvability or resolution strategies. In addition, the failure 
of the U.S. operations of one of these firms may threaten the U.S. 
financial system, but failure of these operations poses a lower risk 
than the failure of a biennial filer or triennial full filer. 
Nonetheless, the agencies retain the ability to obtain additional 
information between resolution plan submissions, as mentioned above, 
and to require any firm to submit a full resolution plan, as described 
below.
Moving Submission Dates, Changing Plan Content, and Requiring Interim 
Updates
    The proposal would have provided the agencies the flexibility to 
move covered companies' submission dates. The proposal would have 
required the agencies to notify a covered company that had previously 
submitted a resolution plan at least 180 days prior to the new 
submission date. A new covered company would have received at least 12 
months' notice prior to the new submission date. Consistent with the 
2011 rule, the proposal also would have allowed agencies to require 
covered companies to provide interim updates within a reasonable amount 
of time. In addition, the proposal would have allowed the agencies to 
jointly require that a covered company submit a full resolution plan 
within a reasonable period of time.
    The agencies received several comments on these aspects of the 
proposal. Commenters asserted that the final rule should provide a 
minimum of 12 months' notice prior to requiring a full resolution plan 
or an off-cycle submission and six or 12 months' notice prior to an 
interim update. Commenters also asserted that the agencies should 
clarify that a ``reasonable amount of time'' for prior notice of a full 
resolution plan submission would be at least 12 months' notice. These 
commenters generally asserted that their proposed notice periods are 
necessary to provide covered companies with sufficient time to prepare 
their resolution plans.
    The final rule contains certain changes from the proposal in 
response to these commenters. Under the final rule, the agencies will 
provide at least 12 months' notice prior to requiring a full resolution 
plan submission or an off-cycle submission (i.e., a submission on a 
date other than the regularly scheduled date for the covered company's 
filing group).\28\ The agencies believe that these changes will enhance 
the predictability of resolution plan submission dates, provide 
appropriate time for resolution plan preparation, and help facilitate 
covered companies' resource allocation decisions.
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    \28\ If the agencies were to require an off-cycle submission 
from a covered company, the covered company's next resolution plan 
submission date after the off-cycle submission date would be 
determined based on the off-cycle submission date. For example, if 
the agencies were to move a triennial full filer's submission date 
from July 1, 2027 to July 1, 2026, the covered company's next 
resolution plan submission date after July 1, 2026 would be July 1, 
2029 (absent the agencies jointly moving the July 1, 2029 submission 
date). The agencies will consider the impact on the covered 
company's future resolution plan submission dates and any deadlines 
related to those submission dates when requiring an off-cycle 
submission.
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    Consistent with the proposal and the 2011 rule, the final rule 
provides that the agencies may require a covered company to submit an 
interim update within a reasonable amount of time, as jointly 
determined by the agencies. An interim update is intended to be a 
flexible tool for the agencies to obtain information between resolution 
plan submission dates. When requiring an interim update, the agencies 
will specify the portions or aspects of a previously submitted 
resolution plan that a firm is required to update. Accordingly, the 
informational content requirements for an interim update are not fixed, 
making it difficult to identify a specific period that is necessary to 
prepare every interim update. While a six- or 12-month period may be 
appropriate in certain circumstances, a shorter time period may be 
appropriate in other circumstances, especially where an interim update 
would contain only limited information. Accordingly, the agencies do 
not believe that it would be appropriate to introduce a fixed notice 
period for an interim update.
    The final rule provides that the agencies may require a covered 
company to submit a full resolution plan instead of a targeted or 
reduced resolution plan that the covered company is otherwise required 
to submit. The full resolution plan's submission date will be the 
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not change the type of resolution plan that the covered company is 
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    \29\ Accordingly, a firm could be required to submit a full 
resolution plan while the other members of the firm's filing group 
are required to submit targeted or reduced resolution plans on that 
submission date. Thereafter, the firm that was required to submit a 
full resolution plan will revert to its filing group's regular 
resolution plan type submission schedule.
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    The agencies do not expect to regularly exercise this authority. 
However, it may be necessary to require a full resolution plan instead 
of a targeted or reduced resolution plan under unusual circumstances, 
and the agencies have preserved this authority as a means for the 
agencies to receive additional information from firms when appropriate. 
The agencies could, for example, exercise their discretion to require a 
triennial reduced filer whose activities have evolved gradually (rather 
than as the result of a single material event) to submit full 
resolution plan in lieu of a reduced resolution plan if the aggregate 
effect of those changes might meaningfully increase the risk that the 
firm's failure could have serious adverse effects on U.S. financial 
stability.

B. Resolution Plan Content

1. General Guidance and Firm-Specific Feedback
    The preamble to the proposal specified that general guidance 
previously directed to specific full resolution plan filers concerning 
the content of their upcoming submissions would continue to be directed 
to those individual firms.
    The agencies received several comments related to prior resolution 
planning general guidance and firm-specific feedback. Some commenters 
suggested that existing resolution planning general guidance directed 
to some firms should be consolidated and tailored among the different 
categories of firms, that any future general guidance be subject to 
notice and public comment, and that the agencies commit to providing 
firm-specific feedback on resolution plans and any general guidance no 
later than 12 months prior to a covered company's resolution plan 
submission date. These commenters asserted in particular that covered 
companies subject to Category II or III standards should not receive 
general guidance that is similar to the general guidance that is 
directed to the U.S. GSIBs, which are subject to Category I standards. 
A few commenters suggested that the agencies clarify to whom existing 
general guidance is directed, and one commenter suggested incorporating 
existing general guidance into the final rule.
    The final rule provides that, absent extenuating circumstances, the 
agencies will provide a firm with notice of any deficiency or 
shortcoming identified by the agencies and any other firm-specific 
feedback regarding its resolution plan no later than 12 months after 
the later of (1) the date when the firm submitted the resolution plan 
and (2) the date by which the firm was required to submit the 
resolution plan. The agencies recognize firms' strong interest in 
prompt firm-specific feedback from the agencies and in having 
sufficient time to respond thereto, and would expect to exercise their 
authority to provide such notice after the one-year period only when 
providing the notice within a year would be impractical due to 
circumstances outside the agencies' control. Absent extenuating 
circumstances, this approach will provide a firm with at least one year 
to consider any and all firm-specific feedback before it is next 
required to submit a resolution plan. However, the agencies would 
retain the authority to require a firm to submit within a shorter 
period a revised resolution plan that addresses deficiencies or an 
interim update.
    In addition to firm-specific feedback that provides the agencies' 
views on a particular resolution plan,\30\ the agencies may continue to 
issue general guidance regarding future resolution plan submissions. 
The firm-specific feedback letters sent to-date to firms are examples 
of the firm-specific feedback that the agencies will provide to firms 
within the 12-month period described in the previous paragraph. While 
both firm-specific feedback (other than a notice of a deficiency) and 
general guidance are meant to assist firms in preparing future 
resolution plans, general guidance outlines the agencies' expectations 
or priorities and articulates the agencies' general views regarding 
resolution plans more generally than firm-specific feedback, which 
presents the agencies' views on a particular resolution plan. The 
agencies will strive to provide final general guidance at least a year 
before the next resolution plan submission date of firms to which the 
general guidance is directed.
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    \30\ The agencies may provide the same or substantially similar 
firm-specific feedback to more than one firm. For example, some 
elements of firm-specific feedback provided to the U.S. GSIBs may be 
the same or substantially similar when certain aspects of their 
resolution plans are substantially similar.
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    Existing general guidance, including its content and scope, is not 
modified by the final rule. Accordingly, the detailed general guidance 
that certain foreign banking organizations have received from the 
agencies (FBO guidance) \31\ continues to be directed to only those 
firms and is not directed to all triennial full filers as a result of 
the changes from the 2011 rule reflected in the final rule. Likewise, 
general guidance directed to certain domestic banking organizations 
(domestic guidance) \32\ continues to be directed to only those 
domestic banking organizations to which it was directed prior to 
adoption of the final rule. Because general guidance sets forth non-
binding expectations as opposed to rule-based requirements, the 
agencies do not believe that it is necessary or appropriate to 
incorporate all general guidance into the final rule.
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    \31\ See Guidance for 2018 Sec.  165(d) Annual Resolution Plan 
Submissions By Foreign-based Covered Companies that Submitted 
Resolution Plans in July 2015, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/bcreg20170324a21.pdf, https://www.fdic.gov/resauthority/2018subguidance.pdf.
    \32\ See Guidance for Sec.  [thinsp]165(d) Resolution Plan 
Submissions by Domestic Covered Companies applicable to the Eight 
Largest, Complex U.S. Banking Organizations, 84 FR 1438, 1449 
(February 4, 2019).
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    The agencies sought and received public comment on the domestic 
guidance in 2018. The notice and comment process allowed the agencies 
to gain valuable insight, which led to improvements and clarifications 
in the final domestic guidance. Similar to the domestic guidance, the 
agencies intend to consolidate and request public comment in the near 
future on all aspects of the FBO guidance, including the informational 
content expectations and the subset of firms to which it is directed. 
The agencies expect that this process will lead to similar benefits for 
the FBO guidance. Similarly, the agencies intend to make any future 
general guidance concerning resolution planning available for public 
comment, and will endeavor to finalize any such general guidance at 
least one year prior to the submission date for the first resolution 
plan submission to which it would apply. The agencies will continue to 
provide firm-specific feedback on resolution plan submissions without 
first making that firm-specific feedback available for notice and 
comment.
2. Material Changes and Extraordinary Events
    The proposal would have revised and clarified the requirements for 
filing a notice of material events to reflect the creation of a 
material changes definition. A material change would have been defined 
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occurrence, change in conditions or circumstances, or other change that 
results in, or could reasonably be foreseen to have a material effect 
on the resolvability of the covered company, the covered company's 
resolution strategy, or how the covered company's resolution strategy 
is implemented. Full, targeted, and reduced resolution plans would have 
been required to include information about material changes since a 
covered company's previously submitted resolution plan and changes the 
covered company made to its resolution plan in response.
    Because of the broad definition of ``material change,'' the 
agencies determined that a notice requirement triggered by the 
occurrence of a material change between resolution plan submissions was 
not appropriate and instead proposed the concept of an extraordinary 
event, which would have required such a notice. Under the proposed 
rule, a material merger, acquisition of assets or other similar 
transaction, or a fundamental change to a covered company's resolution 
strategy would have been an extraordinary event requiring notice to the 
agencies between resolution plan submissions.
    One commenter supported the inclusion in the proposal of the terms 
``material change'' and ``extraordinary event,'' while another 
commenter expressed concern that the proposal put too much reliance on 
firms self-identifying material changes.
    The final rule includes the proposed provisions regarding 
``material changes'' \33\ and ``extraordinary events,'' with the 
clarification that a notice related to an extraordinary event must 
describe the event and explain how the event affects the resolvability 
of the firm. The agencies believe that firms can effectively identify 
these types of events, and note that the rule's requirement that the 
board of directors (or delegee in the case of a foreign firm) approve 
each resolution plan should help ensure that firms take appropriate 
steps to identify material changes. In addition, the final rule has 
been revised from the proposal to require that a firm affirmatively 
state in its resolution plan that no material change has occurred since 
its prior resolution plan submission if the resolution plan does not 
identify any material changes. The agencies believe that this 
clarification will further help to ensure that firms give due attention 
to the requirement to identify material changes.
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    \33\ As noted in the proposal, such changes include the 
identification of a new critical operation or core business line; 
the identification of a new material entity or the de-identification 
of a material entity; significant increases or decreases in the 
business, operations, or funding of a material entity; or changes in 
the primary regulatory authorities of a material entity or the 
covered company on a consolidated basis. Other such changes include 
material changes in operational and financial interconnectivity, 
both those that are intra-firm and external. Examples of such 
operational interconnectivity include reliance on affiliates for 
access to key financial market utilities or critical services, or 
significant reliance on the covered company by other firms for 
certain Payments, Clearing, and Settlement (PCS) services, including 
agent bank clearing or nostro account clearing, or government 
securities settlement services. Examples of such financial 
interconnectivity include a material entity becoming reliant on an 
affiliate as a source for funding or collateral, or the covered 
company becoming a major over-the-counter derivatives dealer.
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3. Full Resolution Plans
    The proposal would not have generally modified the components or 
informational content requirements of a full resolution plan. Through 
numerous resolution plan submissions, the agencies and firms have 
gained familiarity with the format and content of the information 
required to be submitted pursuant to the 2011 rule. The agencies also 
recognize the utility of the existing informational content 
requirements for full resolution plans. Focus on these items has 
facilitated resolution plan and resolvability improvements, 
particularly by the largest and most complex firms.
    Several commenters suggested that the proposal tailor the full 
resolution plan informational content requirements between categories 
of firms, as well as among domestic and foreign firms based on their 
relative risk to U.S. financial stability. One commenter suggested that 
the contents of a full resolution plan should be further tailored for 
foreign firms, focus on critical operations in the United States, and 
include U.S. branches in the firm's strategic analysis only if they are 
significant to a critical operation. The commenter also suggested that 
the agencies should revise the definition of ``covered company'' to 
clarify that the strategy for a foreign firm need only focus on 
resolution of its U.S. core business lines, critical operations, and 
material entities. The commenter also suggested that the agencies 
confirm that foreign firms that have filed resolution plans under the 
2011 rule will not be subject to requirements that impose greater 
burdens than applied previously, and that any new requirements be based 
on the occurrence of extraordinary events.
    The agencies are not changing the informational content 
requirements of a full resolution plan in the final rule from the 
proposal, other than requiring an affirmation that no material change 
has occurred, if applicable. With respect to differentiation of 
requirements between domestic and foreign firms, section __.5(a) of the 
final rule appropriately distinguishes between informational content 
requirements for domestic firms and foreign firms by focusing foreign 
firms' resolution plans on information related to their U.S. 
operations, consistent with the 2011 rule. The agencies do not believe 
that it is appropriate to limit resolution plan content to operations 
that are related to a critical operation because the Dodd-Frank Act's 
resolution planning requirement requires firms to plan generally for 
their rapid and orderly resolution. Similarly, nothing in the Dodd-
Frank Act suggests that branches should be categorically excluded as 
suggested. However, the agencies note that, consistent with the 2011 
rule, the final rule limits the strategic analysis requirements 
relating to material entities that are subject to an insolvency regime 
other than the Bankruptcy Code (including branches) by allowing covered 
companies to exclude such entities from their strategic analysis unless 
the entities have $50 billion or more in total assets or conduct a 
critical operation. The agencies have found this limitation to 
appropriately capture the need for information about material entities 
that may affect U.S. financial stability and accordingly are retaining 
it under the final rule.
    Although the informational content requirements for resolution 
plans are not differentiated among filing groups in the final rule, the 
firm-initiated waiver request process will enable further tailoring of 
the informational content requirements of full resolution plans based 
on the attributes and risks posed by a particular covered company and 
the content of firms' most recent submissions. In addition, the 
agencies will retain the authority to tailor informational content 
requirements through waivers on the agencies' own initiative and will 
continue to communicate their tailored expectations for individual 
firms' resolution plans through firm-specific feedback. Moreover, as 
explained in more detail below, under the final rule the firm-initiated 
waiver request process would be available only to triennial full filers 
and triennial reduced filers. As a result, the final rule would keep in 
place all informational content requirements for biennial filers' full 
resolution plans unless the agencies grant a waiver on their own 
initiative. As explained below, this change to the process for covered 
companies to request waivers reflects that among all categories of 
covered companies, biennial filers' material financial distress or 
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would be most likely to pose risks to U.S. financial stability, so 
their full resolution plans should, as a general matter, be the most 
comprehensive. The agencies believe that this procedural change is also 
responsive to commenters' concerns about the degree of tailoring of 
informational content requirements between biennial filers and 
triennial full filers. Accordingly, the agencies believe that the final 
rule reflects appropriate tailoring of informational content among 
different categories of covered companies.
4. Waivers of Informational Content Requirements
    The proposal would have continued to permit the agencies to waive 
certain informational content requirements for one or more firms on the 
agencies' joint initiative, given that through a covered company's 
repeated resolution plan submissions, certain aspects of its resolution 
plan may reach a steady state or become less material such that regular 
updates would not be useful to the agencies in their review of the 
resolution plan. The proposal also introduced a process whereby a 
covered company that had previously submitted a resolution plan would 
have been able to apply for a waiver of certain informational content 
requirements of a full resolution plan. Under the proposal, firms would 
have been able to submit one waiver request per filing cycle, which 
would have included a public section containing the requirements sought 
to be waived. These requests would have been required to be submitted 
at least 15 months before the submission date and include all 
information necessary to support the request. A waiver request would 
have been automatically granted on the date that was nine months prior 
to the submission date for the resolution plan to which it related if 
the agencies did not jointly deny the waiver prior to that date. The 
proposal would have enabled the agencies to deny a waiver in their 
discretion.
    Several commenters supported the firm-initiated waiver request 
process, noting that the process would help streamline submissions and 
that automatically approving waivers unless jointly denied would ensure 
that requests would not be unduly delayed. One of those commenters 
suggested that the waiver should be made automatic for filers that 
qualified to submit tailored resolution plans under the 2011 rule, 
while others, as discussed above, generally contended that different 
categories of filers should be subject to different levels of 
resolution plan informational content requirements. Other commenters 
expressed concern that the firm-initiated waiver request process was 
unnecessary or would inappropriately reduce resolution plan content 
requirements, increase burden on the agencies, and be biased in favor 
of approval. One commenter suggested that waivers should be required to 
be approved by both agencies. This commenter was further concerned that 
the agencies could grant waivers for multiple submission cycles, 
effectively undermining the proposed rule's limit of one waiver request 
per submission cycle. Another commenter stated that providing for 
automatic approval of waivers when the agencies do not jointly deny 
them could result in the loss of important information based on the 
challenges of coordinating joint agency action.
    The final rule retains both the agencies' ability to waive certain 
informational content requirements on their joint initiative and the 
firm-initiated waiver request process introduced in the proposal, with 
some modifications. In response to concerns raised about the firm-
initiated waiver request process, and to suggestions that the agencies 
should take additional steps to tailor the informational content 
requirements between biennial filers and triennial full filers, the 
agencies have revised the process for covered companies to request 
waivers. The agencies have determined that the firm-initiated waiver 
process should not be extended to biennial filers in light of the 
additional risks that these firms present. Because the concerns noted 
above outweigh the advantages of a firm-initiated waiver process for 
biennial filers, the agencies are limiting firm-initiated waiver 
requests to triennial full filers and triennial reduced filers.\34\ As 
under the 2011 rule, the agencies have the authority to jointly waive 
one or more of the resolution plan requirements on their own initiative 
for any firm, including any biennial filer. This procedural change will 
help to address these commenters' concerns by ensuring that, absent the 
agencies granting a waiver on their own initiative, all full resolution 
plan informational content requirements will remain in place for 
biennial filers, whose material financial distress or failure would be 
most likely to pose a threat to U.S. financial stability.
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triennial reduced filers under the final rule because waiver 
requests do not apply to a covered company's initial full resolution 
plan or reduced resolution plans. However, the firm-initiated waiver 
request process could apply to a triennial reduced filer if the 
agencies were to require it to submit a full resolution plan with at 
least 18 months' prior notice.
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    The agencies believe that for triennial full filers and triennial 
reduced filers, waiver requests will be a useful means to tailor the 
informational content of resolution plans in a manner that will be both 
efficient for the agencies and transparent to the public and, 
accordingly, the final rule permits waiver requests from these firms.
    Relative to the proposed rule, the final rule changes the procedure 
by which the agencies act on waiver requests. Under the proposal, a 
waiver request would have been automatically approved if the agencies 
did not jointly deny it before a certain date. Under the final rule, a 
waiver request is automatically denied if the agencies do not jointly 
approve it before a certain date. The agencies believe that this change 
from the proposal will be more consistent with other provisions of the 
final rule that require joint agency agreement. The agencies will 
nonetheless endeavor to respond to waiver requests in a timely manner.
    Furthermore, safeguards are in place to ensure that firm-initiated 
waivers would not inappropriately reduce resolution plan content 
requirements or otherwise favor filers and that the firm-initiated 
waiver request process will not be unnecessarily burdensome for the 
agencies or inefficient. For example, firms can only request waivers 
for full resolution plans and firms can only submit one waiver request 
per full resolution plan submission. In addition, firm-initiated 
waivers are not permitted for some of the most critical informational 
content, including the core elements required for a targeted resolution 
plan, any information specifically required pursuant to section 165(d) 
of the Dodd-Frank Act, information about material changes, and 
information about deficiencies and shortcomings. Moreover, the timing 
for the agencies' processing of waiver requests has been structured to 
ensure that the agencies have sufficient opportunity to properly review 
and consider the requests.
    This preamble describes below the kind of information that waiver 
requests should contain, which should help make the firm-initiated 
waiver request process more efficient and focused. Finally, 
notwithstanding the new firm-initiated waiver request process, the 
agencies have retained the ability under the final rule to obtain 
additional information in a timely manner through, for example, interim 
updates, notices of extraordinary events, and the ability to require 
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    The agencies are also clarifying in the final rule that, while the 
agencies may waive requirements for one or more resolution plan 
submissions on their own initiative, firm-initiated waivers apply to 
the submission of only a single full resolution plan. The final rule 
also clarifies that the agencies may approve or deny a waiver request 
in whole or in part.
    One commenter suggested changes to the firm-initiated waiver 
request process aimed at ensuring transparency and consistency in its 
application, including requirements that the agencies consider whether 
approved waivers should apply to similarly situated firms and that both 
the criteria used in waiver determinations and the agencies' waiver 
decisions be made public. To ensure transparency in the firm-initiated 
waiver request process, the agencies intend to make their decisions on 
waiver requests public, although the information made public may not be 
the complete response provided to a firm and would not include 
confidential information. The agencies also note that under the final 
rule they will be able to waive informational content requirements on 
their joint initiative, and they could elect to exercise this 
discretionary authority to waive informational content requirements for 
similarly situated firms if they deem it appropriate to do so. However, 
the final rule retains the agencies' ability to approve or deny waiver 
requests at their joint discretion. The proposal's preamble included 
clarifying examples of how the agencies expect to exercise this 
discretion to approve waivers in appropriate circumstances, and these 
examples also apply for the final rule. For example, a waiver may be 
appropriate to reduce informational content that would be of limited 
utility to the agencies, such as when the agencies have recently 
completed an in-depth review of a particular business line and are 
satisfied that they are in possession of current information relevant 
to a firm's ability to resolve that business line. More specifically, 
if the agencies have recently undertaken a comprehensive review of a 
firm's Payments, Clearing, and Settlement (PCS) activities, it may be 
appropriate to waive the requirement for that firm to submit 
information relevant to these activities in its next resolution plan 
submission. A waiver may also be appropriate for a firm that submitted 
a tailored resolution plan under the 2011 rule and requests a waiver 
that would limit the firm's required resolution plan content in a 
manner that is similar to the tailored resolution plan provisions. 
Additional circumstances may arise under the final rule where it is 
appropriate to grant or deny waivers, and the agencies believe it is 
therefore appropriate to maintain a flexible standard under the final 
rule.
    A covered company should provide all information necessary to 
support its waiver request, including an explanation of why approval of 
the request would be appropriate, why the information for which a 
waiver is sought would not be relevant to the agencies' review of the 
firm's resolution plan, and confirmation that the request meets the 
eligibility requirements for a waiver under the final rule (i.e., that 
it is not a core element, not related to an identified deficiency that 
has not been adequately remedied, etc.). To ensure that the agencies 
have the information necessary to evaluate a waiver request, the final 
rule provides that covered companies would be required to explain why 
the information sought to be waived would not be relevant to the 
agencies' review of the covered company's next full resolution plan and 
why a waiver of the requirement would be appropriate. Failure to 
provide appropriate explanation or any information requested by the 
agencies in a timely manner could lead the agencies to deny a waiver 
request on the basis that insufficient explanation or a lack of 
information makes it impossible to determine that the information 
sought to be waived would not be relevant to their review of the 
resolution plan. A full resolution plan should specify content omitted 
due to a waiver request that was granted.
    Two commenters suggested that the deadline for a waiver request to 
be jointly denied by the agencies should be moved from nine months to 
12 months prior to the submission deadline to better align with filers' 
resolution plan preparation timelines. These commenters suggested that 
the rule should provide for waiver requests to be submitted 15 months 
prior to a full resolution plan submission date and allow the agencies 
90 days within which to consider and act upon waiver requests, thereby 
reducing the time period for agency review from six months to 90 days.
    The agencies recognize that a firm may require more than nine 
months to prepare a full resolution plan taking into account an 
approved waiver request. Therefore, the final rule provides that a 
waiver request is automatically denied on the date that is 12 months 
prior to the submission date for the resolution plan to which it 
related if the agencies do not jointly approve the waiver request prior 
to that date. However, the agencies continue to believe that a minimum 
of six months is the appropriate period for the agencies to review a 
waiver request. Accordingly, the final rule requires a waiver request 
to be submitted at least 18 months before the related resolution plan 
submission date. If the agencies waive informational content 
requirements for one or more firms on the agencies' own initiative, the 
agencies will endeavor to provide those firms with notice of the waiver 
at least 12 months before their next resolution plan submission date.
5. Targeted Resolution Plans
    The proposal included a new type of resolution plan: A targeted 
resolution plan. The agencies proposed the targeted resolution plan to 
strike the appropriate balance between providing a means for the 
agencies to continue receiving updated information on structural or 
other changes that may impact a firm's resolution strategy while not 
requiring submission of information that remains largely unchanged 
since the previous submission. Under the proposed rule, the targeted 
resolution plan would have been a subset of a full resolution plan and 
would have included the following components: The information required 
to be included in a full resolution plan regarding capital, liquidity, 
and the covered company's plan for executing any recapitalization 
contemplated in its resolution plan, including updated quantitative 
financial information and analyses important to the execution of the 
covered company's resolution strategy (i.e., the core elements); a 
description of material changes since the covered company's previously 
submitted resolution plan and changes the covered company has made to 
its resolution plan in response; a description of changes in response 
to firm-specific feedback provided by the agencies, general guidance 
issued by the agencies, or legal or regulatory changes; a public 
section; and information responsive to targeted areas of interest 
identified by the agencies at least 12 months prior to the submission.
    The agencies received several comments regarding the proposed 
targeted resolution plan. One commenter asserted that the agencies 
should further tailor the contents of the targeted resolution plan 
based on firms' structures, business models, and activities in the 
risk-based indicators and that the targeted resolution plan requirement 
should apply differently to foreign filers subject to Category II or 
III standards. Another commenter expressed concern that the targeted 
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significant elements, such as booking and trading practices for 
derivatives, trading exposure limits, and relationships with 
counterparties, and that targeted resolution plans are untested. 
Another commenter expressed concerns that the proposal's requirement 
for biennial filers and triennial full filers to alternate between full 
and targeted resolution plans would not be sufficient to capture 
important information about resolvability given the speed with which 
firms can change. Another commenter suggested that the agencies clarify 
that targeted areas of interest identified by the agencies would not 
require information that is wider in scope or depth than the 
information required for a full resolution plan.
    The agencies are finalizing the elements of the targeted resolution 
plan as proposed, other than requiring a firm to affirm that no 
material change has occurred, if applicable, and clarifying that a 
targeted information request will be made in writing.\35\ Regarding the 
request for further tailoring of the targeted resolution plan 
requirement, the targeted resolution plan is already tailored to 
capture the core elements and key informational content most critical 
to helping ensure orderly resolution in bankruptcy, and to the extent 
additional tailoring is needed, the agencies can provide it through 
agency-initiated waivers and targeted information requests. 
Accordingly, the agencies believe that the final rule will facilitate 
appropriate tailoring of informational content requirements. The 
agencies also note that they will continue to communicate their 
tailored expectations for resolution plan content through firm-specific 
feedback.
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    \35\ The proposal's preamble included clarifying examples of how 
the agencies expect firms to respond to the core elements 
informational content requirement, and these examples also apply for 
the final rule. For firms that have received general guidance from 
the agencies applicable to their upcoming submissions regarding 
capital, liquidity, and governance mechanisms, the targeted 
resolution plans should address these elements consistent with that 
general guidance. For example, a targeted resolution plan could 
discuss changes to a firm's methodology for modeling liquidity needs 
for its material entities during periods of financial stress, as 
well as changes to the firm's means for providing capital and 
liquidity to such entities as would be needed to successfully 
execute the firm's resolution strategy. These updates could, for 
example, involve changes to triggers upon which the firm relies to 
execute a recapitalization, including triggers based on capital or 
liquidity modeling. See, e.g., Guidance for Sec.  165(d) Resolution 
Plan Submissions by Domestic Covered Companies, 84 FR 1438, 1449 
(February 4, 2019); Guidance for 2018 Sec.  165(d) Annual Resolution 
Plan Submissions By Foreign-based Covered Companies that Submitted 
Resolution Plans in July 2015, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/files/bcreg20170324a21.pdf, https://www.fdic.gov/resauthority/2018subguidance.pdf. The firms that 
received this general guidance would be expected to address 
Resolution Capital Adequacy and Positioning (RCAP), Resolution 
Liquidity Execution Need (RLEN), and governance mechanisms as part 
of their updates concerning capital, liquidity, and any plans for 
executing a recapitalization, respectively. A firm that has not 
received general guidance is required to describe the capital and 
liquidity needed to execute the firm's resolution strategy 
consistent with Sec.  __.5(c), (d)(1)(i), (iii), and (iv), 
(e)(1)(ii), (e)(2), (3), and (5), (f)(1)(v), and (g) of the final 
rule and, to the extent its resolution plan contemplates 
recapitalization, the covered company's plan for executing the 
recapitalization consistent with Sec.  __.5(c)(5) of the final rule.
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    Regarding commenters' concerns that the targeted resolution plan 
does not include certain important elements, the agencies have found, 
based on their experience reviewing resolution plans, that the 
information that would be contained in the proposed targeted resolution 
plan is the information that is most important to assessing firms' 
resolvability, including the information that has the tendency to 
change with the most frequency. While information about other topic 
areas may be relevant to resolvability, the agencies believe it is 
appropriate to receive this other information on a less frequent basis 
through full resolution plan submissions. The agencies note that 
targeted resolution plans must also address material changes. 
Accordingly, a covered company that experiences material changes 
relating to, for example, its booking and trading practices for 
derivatives, trading exposure limits, relationships with 
counterparties, or other activities or characteristics, would be 
required to include such information in its targeted resolution plan. 
In addition, the agencies have designed the targeted resolution plan to 
ensure that they will receive important information that would allow 
them to review and evaluate potential problem areas, including by 
allowing the agencies to require firms to respond to targeted 
information requests, while permitting less frequent submission of 
information that may have a tendency to remain materially unchanged 
over time. The agencies' ability to make targeted information requests, 
require full resolution plan submissions and interim updates, move 
resolution plan submission dates, and receive notices of extraordinary 
events provides further means for the agencies to receive additional 
information from these firms.
    Regarding one commenter's request for clarification in relation to 
the targeted information requests element of the targeted resolution 
plan, consistent with the proposal, the agencies note that a targeted 
resolution plan is a subset of a full resolution plan. Accordingly, the 
information to be provided regarding areas of focus within a targeted 
resolution plan would not require submission of information wider in 
scope than what a full resolution plan requires.
    The agencies may, however, request information in greater depth 
than the firm chose to provide in prior submissions.
6. Reduced Resolution Plans
    The proposal would have formalized the informational content 
requirements for the reduced resolution plan. For foreign banking 
organizations with relatively limited U.S. operations, the reduced 
resolution plan components were proposed to include: A description of 
(1) material changes experienced by the covered company since the 
filing of the covered company's previously submitted resolution plan 
and (2) changes to the strategic analysis that was presented in the 
firm's previously submitted resolution plan resulting from material 
changes, firm-specific feedback provided by the agencies, general 
guidance issued by the agencies, or legal or regulatory changes. 
Reduced resolution plans would also contain a public section. The 
agencies noted that receiving updates of this information would permit 
them to continue to monitor significant changes in a firm's structure 
or activities while appropriately focusing the informational components 
of these firms' resolution plans.
    The agencies received several comments on the reduced resolution 
plan. One commenter suggested that reduced resolution plans would not 
provide the agencies sufficient information and that agencies may not 
be able to assess whether a change is material as a result of triennial 
reduced filers not filing full resolution plans after their initial 
submissions. Another commenter suggested that firms that had previously 
been resolution plan filers should not be required to submit a new full 
resolution plan upon once again becoming a covered company and a new 
triennial reduced filer. Another commenter suggested that the agencies 
clarify when triennial reduced filers would be required to submit full 
resolution plans under the final rule.
    The agencies are finalizing the reduced resolution plan as 
proposed, other than requiring an affirmation that no material change 
has occurred, if applicable. Taking into account the relative degree of 
risk posed by these firms, the agencies believe that the reduced 
resolution plan as proposed generally would capture the information 
necessary for the agencies to assess triennial reduced filers' 
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The material change requirement in the reduced resolution plan is 
designed to capture important information relevant to the firm's 
resolvability, its resolution strategy, and implementation of the 
resolution strategy. In addition, and as discussed above, the final 
rule has been revised from the proposal to require that a firm 
affirmatively state in its resolution plan that no material change has 
occurred since its prior resolution plan submission if the resolution 
plan does not identify any material change. The agencies believe this 
clarification will further help to ensure that firms give due attention 
to the requirement to identify material changes. Finally, the agencies' 
ability to require full resolution plan submissions and interim 
updates, move resolution plan submission dates, and receive notices of 
extraordinary events provides further means for the agencies to receive 
additional information from triennial reduced filers.
    The final rule also retains the requirement that any firm that was 
not a covered company on the effective date of the final rule but 
becomes a triennial reduced filer after the effective date of the final 
rule submit a full resolution plan as its initial submission, even if 
the firm was at some point previously subject to resolution planning 
requirements (e.g., under the 2011 rule). There could be an extended 
period of time between a firm's previous full resolution plan 
submission and the time when it again becomes subject to the final 
rule, rendering the earlier full resolution plan less relevant to the 
firm's current operations, activities, and structure. The agencies 
note, however, that a firm would be able to incorporate by reference 
information from its prior resolution plan that meets the final rule's 
standard for incorporation by reference. In addition, the agencies are 
clarifying that full resolution plans filed under the 2011 rule by 
firms that would continue to be covered companies under the final rule 
and would be triennial reduced filers under the final rule would be 
grandfathered for purposes of determining compliance with the 
requirement that a triennial reduced filer's initial submission be a 
full resolution plan. Accordingly, those firms would be required to 
submit reduced resolution plans going forward but would not be required 
to resubmit a new full resolution plan absent other relevant changes in 
their circumstances (e.g., becoming subject to Category II or Category 
III standards).
7. Tailored Resolution Plans
    Under the 2011 rule, a tailored resolution plan was a means for 
certain bank-centric firms to request that their resolution plan 
submissions focus on nonbank activities that may pose challenges to 
executing the firm's resolution strategy. Pursuant to the 2011 rule's 
tailored resolution plan notice requirement, firms were required to 
apply to the agencies to submit a tailored resolution plan rather than 
a full resolution plan every year that a submission was required. The 
agencies' proposal would have eliminated the tailored resolution plan 
in light of the introduction of the firm-initiated waiver request 
process and the targeted resolution plan as effective substitutes. The 
agencies also noted in the proposal that many of the covered companies 
that were eligible under the 2011 rule to file a tailored resolution 
plan would no longer be subject to the resolution planning requirement 
under the final rule or would become triennial reduced filers.
    One commenter expressed concern regarding the proposal to eliminate 
the tailored resolution plan. In particular, the commenter stated that 
previous tailored resolution plan filers should be grandfathered so 
that they would not need to apply for a waiver to continue to submit 
similar submissions under the final rule. As an alternative, the 
commenter proposed that the agencies limit the scope of these firms' 
full and targeted resolution plan submissions to nonbank operations. 
Another commenter asserted that the proposal should be modified to 
allow for automatic waiver, upon request, from certain informational 
content requirements for filers that qualified to submit tailored 
resolution plans under the 2011 rule.
    The agencies are finalizing the proposal to eliminate the tailored 
resolution plan type. As explained in the proposal, the agencies expect 
that the firm-initiated waiver request process and targeted resolution 
plan requirements will be effective substitutes for the tailored 
resolution plan and will allow the agencies to appropriately tailor 
informational content requirements, taking into account the relative 
mix of banking and non-banking activities for particular filers. 
Accordingly, the agencies believe that it is unnecessary to retain the 
tailored resolution plan in the final rule.

C. Critical Operations Methodology and Reconsideration Process

    Under the final rule, and consistent with the 2011 rule, a critical 
operation is an operation the failure or discontinuance of which would 
pose a threat to the financial stability of the United States. The 2011 
rule provides for critical operations to be identified by the firms or 
at the agencies' joint direction. As part of their rule implementation 
and supervision efforts, the agencies have developed a process and 
methodology for jointly identifying critical operations and have made 
certain critical operations identifications. In recognition that 
financial markets and firms change over time, the agencies proposed 
establishing a periodic, comprehensive review of critical operations 
identifications by both the agencies and covered companies to ensure 
that resolution planning reflects current operations and markets and 
appropriately focuses on areas vital to financial stability.
1. Identification by Covered Companies and Methodology Requirement
    Many covered companies have incorporated into their resolution 
planning frameworks a procedure for identifying critical operations, 
and the agencies proposed requiring biennial filers and triennial full 
filers to maintain a process for identifying critical operations on a 
scale that reflected the nature, size, complexity, and scope of their 
operations. The proposal would have required this process for self-
identification to occur at least as frequently as a covered company's 
resolution plan submission cycle and be documented in the covered 
company's corporate governance policies and procedures. In addition, 
the proposal would have established a process whereby firms that did 
not currently have identified critical operations could request a 
waiver from the requirement to maintain a self-identification process 
and methodology. Firms that self-identified a critical operation would 
have been required to notify the agencies if they ceased to identify an 
operation as a critical operation. Finally, the agencies proposed a 
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``identified critical operations,'' to clarify that critical 
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jointly identified by the agencies and that until such an operation 
has been identified by either method, the operation does not need to 
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    Two commenters suggested that the agencies clarify that the 
requirement that firms have a process to self-identify critical 
operations is presumptively waived for any covered company that has 
previously submitted resolution plans and does not currently have an 
identified critical operation. Finally, one commenter recommended 
either eliminating or clarifying the use of the term ``economic 
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agencies' description of a firm's methodology for identifying critical 
operations.
    Consistent with the proposal, under the final rule, biennial filers 
and triennial full filers must establish and implement a process 
designed to identify their critical operations. However, after July 1, 
2022, the final rule also requires a triennial reduced filer that has 
an identified critical operation to establish and implement a process 
designed to identify its critical operations. As under the proposal, in 
all cases, that process must contain a methodology and consider the 
nature, size, complexity, and scope of the covered company's 
operations.
    Under the final rule, triennial reduced filers with identified 
critical operations will be required to establish and implement a 
process to identify critical operations, but only after they are 
required to submit their next resolution plans in 2022. Where a firm 
has an identified critical operation, it may be the case that it has 
additional critical operations such that a periodic review by the firm 
of its operations that is appropriate to the nature, size, complexity, 
and scope of its operations could be beneficial. This timing will 
provide the agencies the opportunity to complete their first joint 
review of critical operations under the final rule and triennial 
reduced filers with the opportunity to request reconsideration of any 
currently identified critical operation in anticipation of their next 
resolution plan submission.
    Also consistent with the proposal, the final rule allows a covered 
company that has previously submitted a resolution plan and does not 
have an identified critical operation to request a waiver of the 
requirement to have a process and methodology to identify its critical 
operations if it does not have an identified critical operation as of 
the date the waiver request is submitted.\37\ Under the proposal, the 
covered company would have needed to apply for such a waiver at least 
15 months before the submission date for that resolution plan, and 
waivers would have been automatically granted on the date that was nine 
months prior to the date that the resolution plan it relates to was due 
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a waiver may be appropriate, and these examples also apply for the 
final rule. For example, for a covered company that has not 
experienced any significant changes in its business, operations, or 
organizational structure since its most recent resolution plan, a 
waiver request that so states, with reasonable supporting detail, 
could provide sufficient information for the agencies to evaluate 
the request. Alternatively, if one of a covered company's operations 
gained significant market share since it submitted its most recent 
resolution plan submission, the waiver request should include this 
information, a description of the operation, and a discussion of why 
this change would not warrant the development of a methodology for 
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    Consistent with the changes to the firm-initiated waiver request 
process for informational content requirements, under the final rule, a 
request for a waiver from the critical operations process and 
methodology requirement will be automatically denied on a certain date 
unless the agencies have jointly approved it before that date. 
Requiring joint approval of waiver requests will be more consistent 
with other provisions of the final rule that require joint agency 
approval.
    The agencies recognize that a firm may require more than nine 
months to prepare a resolution plan taking into account any critical 
operation the covered company newly identifies and, accordingly, a 
covered company may need to complete its process more than nine months 
before its next resolution plan is due. Therefore, the final rule 
provides that a waiver request is automatically denied on the date that 
is 12 months prior to the submission date for the resolution plan to 
which it related if the agencies do not jointly approve the waiver 
prior to that date. However, the agencies continue to believe that a 
minimum of six months is the appropriate period for the agencies to 
review a waiver request. Accordingly, the final rule requires a waiver 
request to be submitted at least 18 months before the submission date. 
This timing is consistent with the timing for firm-initiated waiver 
requests of informational content requirements under the final rule. 
However, to provide firms with an appropriate period to prepare a 
waiver request after the agencies' adoption of the final rule with 
respect to a resolution plan due on or before July 1, 2021, the final 
rule provides that a waiver request must be submitted at least 17 
months before that submission date.
    The proposal would have required a covered company to submit a 
waiver request with respect to each resolution plan submission. The 
agencies recognize that a covered company that does not have an 
identified critical operation and has been granted a waiver may not 
experience any changes between resolution plan submissions that would 
increase the likelihood of it having a critical operation. Accordingly, 
to balance the benefits of covered companies engaging in a process to 
identify their critical operations with the burden placed on covered 
companies, the final rule provides that if a critical operations waiver 
request is granted, the waiver will remain effective until the covered 
company is required to submit its next full resolution plan. For 
example, if a triennial full filer submits a waiver request in 
connection with a full resolution plan that is due on or before July 1, 
2024 and the request is approved, the waiver would be effective for the 
July 1, 2024 full resolution plan submission and the firm's next 
regularly scheduled targeted resolution plan due on or before July 1, 
2027. To continue the effectiveness of the waiver, the covered company 
would need to submit a new waiver request at least 18 months before its 
next regularly scheduled full resolution plan due on or before July 1, 
2030. Similarly, if a triennial full filer submits a waiver request in 
connection with a targeted resolution plan and the request is granted, 
the waiver would be effective for only that targeted resolution plan 
and not its next full resolution plan.
    The agencies recognize a foreign firm may not first determine the 
category of standards to which it is subject (and, accordingly, whether 
it is a triennial full filer or a triennial reduced filer) until after 
the date by which a triennial full filer would need to submit a waiver 
request with respect to its resolution plan due on or before July 1, 
2021. Therefore, the final rule exempts each foreign triennial full 
filer from the requirement to establish and implement a process and 
methodology designed to identify their critical operations with respect 
to its resolution plan due on or before July 1, 2021 if the foreign 
firm does not have an identified critical operation as of the date by 
which the waiver would have had to be submitted for this resolution 
plan submission (i.e., 17 months before the resolution plan submission 
date).
    In addition, the agencies are clarifying the final rule by 
eliminating usage of the term ``economic function,'' as suggested by 
the commenter. However, consistent with the preamble to the proposed 
rule, the agencies note that the types of operations that may be 
critical operations include, but are not limited to, the core banking 
functions of deposit taking; lending; payments, clearing and 
settlement; custody; wholesale funding; and capital markets and 
investment activities. In general, an operation is most likely to be a 
critical operation of the firm where both (a) a market or activity 
engaged in by the firm is significant to U.S. financial stability and 
(b) the firm is a significant provider or participant in such a market 
or activity. Factors relevant for determining whether a market or 
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whether a firm is a significant provider or participant in such a 
market or activity, may include substitutability, market concentration, 
interconnectedness, and the impact of cessation. The firm's analysis 
should focus on the significance of the activity to U.S. financial 
stability, not whether a particular activity is significant for a 
foreign parent or other foreign affiliates of the firm.\38\ The process 
undertaken by a firm in completing such an analysis should be 
commensurate with the nature, size, complexity, and scope of its 
operations.\39\
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taking, is significant to the firm, but the failure or 
discontinuance of that activity would not pose a threat to the 
financial stability of the United States, that operation would not 
be an identified critical operation under the final rule.
    \39\ For a foreign firm, the critical operations identification 
process and methodology should be commensurate with the nature, 
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2. Identification by Agencies and Requests for Reconsideration
    Under the proposal, the agencies would have reviewed the operations 
of covered companies at least every six years to determine whether any 
new operations should be identified as critical or any prior 
identifications should be rescinded. The proposal provided that, when 
the agencies identified an operation as critical, the covered company 
would have been required to treat the operation as an identified 
critical operation in future resolution plans, unless the 
identification occurred within six months of a firm's resolution plan 
submission date. In addition, the proposal would have permitted a 
covered company to request that the agencies reconsider a jointly made 
critical operation identification. The agencies generally would have 
been required to complete their assessment of the request within 90 
days after receipt of the request, if the request were made at least 
270 days before the firm's next resolution plan submission deadline.
    Commenters were generally supportive of efforts to codify the 
critical operations identification processes. Some commenters suggested 
that the agencies modify the timeline for de-identification of a 
critical operation identified by the agencies.\40\ A commenter also 
suggested that the deadline for the agencies to be able to identify a 
new critical operation be 12 months prior to a submission deadline, 
instead of six months, as proposed.
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for de-identification to be filed no later than 15 months before the 
next resolution plan submission is due; mandating that the agencies 
make a decision within 90 days of receipt of the request; and 
deeming the request approved if not denied by one year prior to the 
resolution plan submission date.
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    The agencies are adopting the proposed provisions related to the 
identification of critical operations by the agencies with revisions 
that address certain concerns raised by commenters.\41\ Consistent with 
the proposal, the final rule permits the joint identification and 
rescission of critical operations by the agencies at any time and the 
agencies will review all identified critical operations and the 
operations of firms for consideration as critical operations at least 
every six years. The agencies recognize that a firm may require time to 
revise its resolution plan to take into account a newly identified 
critical operation. Therefore, consistent with commenters' feedback, a 
covered company will be required to treat a critical operation as an 
identified critical operation only if the joint identification is made 
at least 12 months before the resolution plan submission date. The 
agencies believe 12 months is a reasonable period for a firm to assess 
the identified critical operation and adjust its resolution plan. To 
align with this notice period, the agencies will endeavor to complete 
their first joint review under the final rule of the operations of 
covered companies at least 12 months prior to the 2021 resolution plan 
submission date.
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    Finally, the agencies are adopting a modified process whereby firms 
can request that the agencies reconsider a jointly identified critical 
operation. Under the final rule, a firm may request reconsideration of 
a jointly identified critical operation at any time. If a firm requests 
reconsideration at least 18 months prior to its next resolution plan 
submission date, the agencies will generally complete their review no 
later than 12 months before that resolution plan submission date. 
However, the agencies may request additional information, in which case 
the agencies will complete their review no later than the later of (a) 
90 days after the submission of all requested information and (b) 12 
months before the resolution plan submission date. This generally 
aligns the timing for requests for reconsideration with the timing 
under the final rule for waiver requests of the requirement to 
establish and implement a process designed to identify critical 
operations and firm-initiated waiver requests of informational content 
requirements.
    The agencies retain discretion to defer consideration of a 
reconsideration request submitted less than 18 months before a 
resolution plan submission date until after the covered company's next 
submission. If the agencies do not defer consideration of the 
reconsideration request, the agencies intend to communicate with the 
firm regarding the timing of the agencies' response. If the agencies 
defer consideration of a request submitted less than 18 months before a 
resolution plan submission date, the agencies will generally complete 
their review no later than 12 months before the next resolution plan 
submission date that follows that resolution plan submission date.
    The agencies understand commenters' concerns regarding the de-
identification timeline, and have revised and lengthened the process to 
provide covered companies with additional notice of new identifications 
prior to a resolution plan submission date. However, the agencies 
decline to adopt the commenters' request for an automatic rescission of 
a critical operations identification if a request is submitted at least 
15 months before the firm's next resolution plan is due and the 
agencies have not acted within three months. A firm's initial request 
for de-identification may be incomplete or unclear, and critical 
operations identifications may raise complex issues that require 
substantial time to consider. Accordingly, the agencies may require 
more than 90 days to make an informed decision regarding whether an 
operation should be de-identified. The agencies believe the final rule 
adequately balances covered companies' need for certainty prior to a 
resolution plan submission date with the need to carefully assess 
critical operations identifications.

D. Clarifications to the 2011 Rule

1. Resolution Strategy for Foreign-based Covered Companies
    The 2011 rule does not specify the assumptions a foreign banking 
organization should make with respect to how resolution actions it 
takes outside of the United States should be addressed in its 
resolution plan. The proposal, consistent with general guidance that 
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clarified that covered companies that are foreign banking organizations 
should not assume that the covered company takes resolution actions 
outside of the United States that would eliminate the need for any U.S. 
subsidiaries to enter into resolution proceedings.
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    One commenter asserted that the agencies should better align U.S. 
resolution planning with home country resolution strategy by 
recognizing the development of single point of entry strategies, total 
loss absorbing capacity, and other improved resolvability measures 
implemented by international banks. Although the agencies recognize 
that foreign banking organizations may have home-country resolution 
strategies under which U.S. entities are not planned to enter 
resolution, the Dodd-Frank Act requires firms to plan for the failure 
of their U.S. operations. General guidance and firm-specific feedback 
have taken into account resolution plan resolvability improvements made 
by foreign banking organizations. Accordingly, the final rule includes 
this clarification as proposed.
2. Covered Company in Multi-Tier Foreign Banking Organization Holding 
Companies
    The definition of covered company in the 2011 rule includes the top 
tier entity in a multi-tier holding company structure of any foreign 
bank or company that is a bank holding company or is treated as a bank 
holding company under section 8(a) of the International Banking Act of 
1978. There is no benefit to the agencies in obtaining resolution plan 
information relating to a top tier holding company that is, for 
example, a government, sovereign entity, or family trust. The agencies 
previously addressed this issue on a case-by-case basis and proposed 
including a formal process in the proposal by which the agencies would 
identify a subsidiary in a multi-tiered FBO holding company structure 
to serve as the covered company that would be required to submit the 
resolution plan. The agencies did not receive comment on this provision 
and are adopting the clarification as proposed.
3. Removal of the Incompleteness Concept and Related Review
    The 2011 rule includes a requirement that the agencies review a 
resolution plan within 60 days of submission and jointly inform the 
covered company if the resolution plan is informationally incomplete or 
additional information is required to facilitate review of the 
resolution plan. This process has not led to resubmissions in recent 
years, and the proposal would have removed it. The agencies received 
one comment in support of this provision, and the agencies are removing 
the incompleteness concept and related review as proposed for the 
reasons stated in the proposal.
4. Assessment of New Covered Companies
    The 2011 rule provides that covered company status for a foreign 
banking organization may be based on annual or quarterly reports, 
depending on availability of such reports, but does not clarify whether 
firms that file quarterly reports would be assessed for covered company 
status on a quarterly or annual basis. The proposal would have 
clarified that a foreign banking organization's status as a covered 
company would be assessed quarterly for foreign banking organizations 
that file the Federal Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q (FR Y-7Q) on a quarterly 
basis and annually for foreign banking organizations that file the Y-7Q 
on an annual basis only. In each case, the assessment would have been 
based on total consolidated assets as averaged over the preceding four 
calendar quarters as reported on the FR Y-7Q.
    In addition, the proposal would also have addressed the process for 
assessing a firm whose assets have grown due to a merger, acquisition, 
combination, or similar transaction for covered company status. Under 
these circumstances, the agencies would have the discretion to 
alternatively consider, to the extent and in the manner the agencies 
jointly consider appropriate, the relevant assets reflected on the one 
or more of the four most recent reports of the pre-combination entities 
(the FR Y-9C in the case of a U.S. firm and the FR Y-7Q in the case of 
a foreign banking organization). The agencies did not receive comment 
on these provisions and are adopting the clarifications as proposed.
5. Timing of New Filings, Firms That Change Filing Categories
    To address the new filing cycles for biennial, triennial full, and 
triennial reduced filers, the proposal included related modifications 
to the timing of the initial submission for new filers. The proposal 
also included a reservation of authority permitting the agencies to 
require the initial resolution plan earlier than the date of the filing 
group's next filing, so long as the submission deadline would have been 
at least 12 months from the date on which the agencies jointly 
determined to require the covered company to submit its resolution 
plan. Similarly, the proposal specified the timing and type of 
resolution plan a firm would be required to submit if it changed groups 
(e.g., a triennial reduced filer becomes a triennial full filer or a 
triennial full filer becomes a triennial reduced filer). The agencies 
received no comments on these changes and are finalizing them as 
proposed with technical changes to clarify that the relevant date for 
these timing provisions is the date as of which the covered company 
became a covered company or a member of a filing group.
6. Clarification of the Mapping Expectations for Foreign Banking 
Organizations
    The proposal would have amended the language governing the 
expectations regarding the mapping of intragroup interconnections and 
interdependencies by foreign banking organizations. The proposal also 
would have clarified that foreign banking organizations would be 
expected to map (a) the interconnections and interdependencies among 
their U.S. subsidiaries, branches, and agencies, (b) the 
interconnections and interdependencies between these U.S. entities and 
any critical operations and core business lines, and (c) the 
interconnections and interdependencies between these U.S. entities and 
any foreign-based affiliates. The agencies did not receive comment on 
these provisions and are adopting the clarifications regarding mapping 
expectations for foreign banking organizations as proposed.
7. Standard of Review
    In reviewing resolution plans, the agencies have identified 
``deficiencies'' and ``shortcomings'' in resolution plans and have 
issued firm-specific feedback letters to covered companies describing 
the rationale for the findings and suggesting potential alternatives 
for how the identified deficiencies and shortcomings could be 
addressed. While the agencies have defined these terms in a public 
statement,\43\ they are not defined in the 2011 rule. To provide an 
opportunity for public comment on these terms and a clearer 
articulation of the standards the agencies apply in identifying 
deficiencies and shortcomings, the agencies proposed defining a 
deficiency and a shortcoming. In addition, the agencies proposed 
continuing to require a covered company that was assessed to have a 
deficiency to submit a revised resolution plan to the agencies 
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days of receiving notice of the deficiency, consistent with the 2011 
rule. The agencies received one comment in support of the proposal's 
timeline for requiring a firm to respond to a notice of deficiency, and 
the agencies are adopting the definitions of deficiency and 
shortcoming, and the related standard of review, as proposed.
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8. Deletion of ``Deficiencies'' Relating to Management Information 
Systems
    The 2011 rule requires a resolution plan to include information 
about a covered company's management information systems, including a 
description and analysis of the system's ``deficiencies, gaps or 
weaknesses'' in the system's capabilities. The proposal would have 
deleted the term ``deficiencies'' from this informational content 
requirement solely to avoid confusion with the proposal's new 
definition of ``deficiencies'' in the proposal, and not to change the 
informational content requirement relating to a covered company's 
management information systems. The agencies did not receive comment on 
this provision and are adopting the clarification as proposed.
9. Incorporation by Reference
    Similar to the 2011 rule, the proposal would have continued to 
allow a covered company to incorporate by reference information from 
its previously submitted resolution plans, subject to certain 
restrictions. The proposal would have required the referenced 
information to remain accurate in all respects that are material to the 
covered company's resolution plan, and the incorporated information 
would remain subject to the contemporaneous certification requirement. 
The agencies intended that this clarification regarding the material 
accuracy of referenced information provide covered companies greater 
flexibility in their ability to incorporate by reference information, 
thereby reducing duplication and further streamlining the resolution 
planning process. One commenter supported this clarification and the 
proposed expanded ability of firms to utilize incorporation by 
reference, and the agencies are adopting the clarification as proposed.
E. Technical and Conforming Changes From the Proposal
    In addition to the changes to the proposal described above, the 
final rule includes technical and conforming changes for purposes of 
clarity and consistency. For example, the final rule clarifies that 
firms are required to submit a resolution plan on or before the 
applicable submission date. The technical and conforming changes have 
no substantive effect on the final rule as compared to the proposal.
F. Board Delegation of Authority
    The Board has delegated to its Director of Supervision and 
Regulation, or his or her delegatee, in consultation with the General 
Counsel, or his or her delegatee, the authority to identify on behalf 
of the Board a holding company in a multi-tiered holding company to 
satisfy the requirements that apply to a covered company under the 
final rule, to the extent such identification is consistent with the 
criteria specified in the final rule and does not raise any significant 
legal, policy, or supervisory concerns.

IV. Effective Date and Transition Period

    The effective date of the final rule is [60 days after publication 
in the Federal Register]. Financial institutions that are covered 
companies under the final rule are required to comply with the final 
rule beginning on the effective date.
    The requirements for covered companies' initial resolution plans 
under the final rule will be determined based on their categorization 
under the tailoring rules on October 1, 2020, which is after the first 
date foreign banking organizations are required to submit reports 
including data for purposes of their categorization based on their 
combined U.S. operations under the tailoring rules.\44\ In particular, 
firms that are covered companies as of the effective date of the final 
rule are required to submit their initial and subsequent resolution 
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    \44\ Top-tier foreign banking organizations will report the FR 
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    Biennial filers (all firms subject to Category I standards): 
Covered companies that are biennial filers on October 1, 2020 are 
required to submit their next resolution plans on or before July 1, 
2021, unless a firm changes its filing group before July 1, 2021. This 
submission will be a targeted resolution plan. Thereafter, the biennial 
filers will alternate between filing full and targeted resolution plans 
on a biennial basis.
    Triennial full filers (all firms subject to Category II or Category 
III standards): Covered companies that are triennial full filers on 
October 1, 2020 are required to submit targeted resolution plans on or 
before July 1, 2021, unless a firm changes its filing group before July 
1, 2021. The proposal would have required these firms to submit a full 
resolution plan on or before July 1, 2021. The agencies recognize a 
foreign firm may not first determine the category of standards to which 
it is subject (and, accordingly, whether it is a triennial full filer 
or a triennial reduced filer) until after the date by which a triennial 
full filer would need to submit a firm-initiated waiver request of 
informational content requirements for a full resolution plan due on or 
before July 1, 2021. To provide clarity to covered companies during 
this transition period, the final rule requires all triennial full 
filers to submit a targeted resolution plan on or before July 1, 2021. 
Thereafter, the triennial full filers will alternate between filing 
full and targeted resolution plans on a triennial basis.
    For firms with outstanding shortcomings or deficiencies, the 
agencies' expectations regarding remediation and related timelines 
established by the agencies continue to apply. For example, the four 
foreign banking organizations that received firm-specific feedback 
letters on December 20, 2018 (Barclays plc, Credit Suisse Group AG, 
Deutsche Bank AG, and UBS Group AG) are expected to address their 
shortcomings and complete their respective project plans by July 1, 
2020, as provided in the agencies' firm-specific feedback letters. 
Consistent with prior communications to these firms, they are required 
to submit resolution plans on or before July 1, 2020 that may be 
limited to describing changes that the firms have made to their July 
2018 resolution plans to address shortcomings identified in those 
resolution plans.\45\
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    \45\ As the final rule makes clear, the requirement to submit a 
resolution plan on or before July 1, 2020 does not affect the timing 
or type of resolution plans required to be submitted as described 
above. The applicable date for completion of the following 
activities remains July 1, 2020: (i) The resolvability enhancement 
initiatives identified in the agencies' 2018 firm-specific feedback 
letters, and (ii) any additional enhancement initiatives identified 
in the July 2018 resolution plan submission or in writing by firm 
management during the 2018 resolution plan review. In connection 
with their July 1, 2020 submissions, the firms should provide an 
update concerning these initiatives.
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Corporation, it is required to provide an interim update, as specified 
in the agencies' joint March 29, 2019 firm-specific feedback letter, 
concerning its projects to address the liquidity shortcoming identified 
in its 2015 resolution plan.
    Triennial reduced filers (all other filers): Covered companies that 
are triennial reduced filers on October 1, 2020 must submit their 
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or before July 1, 2022, unless a firm changes its filing group before 
July 1, 2022. Thereafter, they are required to submit reduced 
resolution plans on a triennial basis.

V. Impact Analysis

    The final rule will modify the expected costs imposed by the 2011 
rule while seeking to preserve the benefits to U.S. financial stability 
provided by the 2011 rule. The economic effects of the final rule are 
driven by the changes in the reporting costs related to resolution plan 
submissions.
    Consistent with EGRRCPA, the final rule changes the asset 
thresholds at which all firms are required to file resolution plans 
from $50 billion to $250 billion in total consolidated assets. The 
final rule also requires the submission of resolution plans by certain 
firms with $100 billion or more and less than $250 billion in total 
consolidated assets, including those that have certain risk-based 
indicators. As of March 31, 2019, firms with $50 billion or more and 
less than $100 billion in total consolidated assets accounted for less 
than 2 percent of total U.S. industry assets, and firms with $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated assets 
accounted for 18 percent of total U.S. industry assets.\46\ The net 
impact of these threshold changes would reduce the number of U.S. 
filers from 23 to 12 and the number of foreign banking organization 
filers from 86 to 62.\47\ This reduction in resolution plan filers 
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March 31, 2019.
    \47\ Upon enactment of EGRRCPA on May 24, 2018, firms with total 
consolidated assets of less than $100 billion were automatically no 
longer subject to the resolution planning requirement, reducing the 
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    The final rule also seeks to minimize the impact of this change on 
benefits to U.S. financial stability provided from resolution plan 
filings by maintaining filing requirements for certain firms with $100 
billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated 
assets, including those that have certain risk-based indictors.
    The final rule also reduces the frequency of required resolution 
plan submissions for the remaining resolution plan filers, including 
the largest and most complex resolution plan filers, by extending the 
default filing cycle between resolution plan submissions. The final 
rule modifies the filing cycle to every two years for the U.S. GSIBs 
and certain systemically important nonbank financial companies and to 
every three years for all other resolution plan filers. This change 
formalizes a practice that has developed over time to extend firms' 
resolution plan submission dates to allow at least two years between 
resolution plan submissions and should reduce costs.
    In the August 2018 proposal to extend mandatory Reporting 
Requirements Associated with Regulation QQ, the estimate of total 
annual burden for resolution plan filings was estimated to be 1,137,797 
hours for 111 resolution plan filers.\48\ Since then, the number of 
resolution plan filers has declined to 109, with a current total annual 
burden of 1,066,086 hours.\49\ Under the final rule, the revised 
estimated annual burden, incorporating proposed modifications to the 
resolution plan rule, is 425,525 hours.\50\ At an estimated mean wage 
of $56.05 per hour,\51\ this reduction in the estimated burden hours 
has an estimated wage savings of approximately $35,903,444 per year. 
Reductions in submission frequency and content could potentially reduce 
the preparedness of covered companies to execute a rapid and orderly 
resolution in the event of material financial distress or failure. 
However, this potential economic effect would be ameliorated by the 
agencies' authority to require a firm to submit a full resolution plan, 
interim update, or alter resolution plan submission dates. This 
authority would address circumstances where the agencies determine that 
waiting for a firm to submit on its regular submission cycle could 
present excess risk.
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    \48\ Agency Information Collection Activities: Announcement of 
Board Approval Under Delegated Authority and Submission to OMB, 83 
FR 42296 (August 21, 2018).
    \49\ As of March 31, 2019.
    \50\ See Section VI.A. for estimated annual hourly burden 
details.
    \51\ Mean hourly wages retrieved from the Bureau of Labor and 
Statistics (BLS), Occupational Employment and Wages May 2017, 
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    Finally, the final rule is expected to improve efficiency by 
streamlining the information requirements for the resolution plan 
submissions: The final rule includes a mechanism for certain firms to 
request a waiver from certain informational requirements in full 
resolution plan submissions; introduces a new, more focused resolution 
plan submission (i.e., targeted resolution plan); and formalizes the 
conditions and content for reduced resolution plans. These resolution 
plan modifications are appropriate because the firms' resolution plans 
have matured and become more stable through multiple submissions. 
Further, the resolution plan modifications should reduce the costs of 
preparing and reviewing the resolution plans without having a material 
impact on the benefits provided by the resolution plans.
    In short, as detailed in this section, the proposal would provide 
estimated wage savings, to the institutions affected by it, totaling 
$35,903,444 due to the reduction of an estimated 640,561 burden hours 
needed to comply with the final rule. Moreover, firms could reallocate 
the estimated 640,561 hours used to comply with the final rule to other 
activities considered to be more beneficial.\52\ Thus, the total 
economic benefits of the proposal could be greater than the dollar 
amount estimated.
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    \52\ A commenter asserted that firms would likely eliminate (and 
not repurpose) compliance jobs, resulting in cost savings to the 
firms, and that these savings will likely only benefit the firms' 
shareholders and executives. The agencies note that it is 
speculative how firms will utilize resources no longer needed to 
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VI. Regulatory Analysis

A. Paperwork Reduction Act

    Certain provisions of the final rule contain ``collections of 
information'' within the meaning of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 
(44 U.S.C. 3501-3521) (PRA). In accordance with the requirements of the 
PRA, the agencies may not conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not 
required to respond to, an information collection unless it displays a 
currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. 
The agencies reviewed the final rule and determined that it would 
revise the reporting requirements that have been previously approved by 
the Board under OMB control number 7100-0346 (Reporting Requirements 
Associated with Regulation QQ; FR QQ). The Board's information 
collection will be extended for three years, with revision.
    Since the original rule was adopted in 2011, the Board's PRA 
clearance has accounted for the entire burden associated with the rule 
even though the Board and the Corporation are both legally authorized 
to receive and review the Resolution Plans. The agencies have decided 
to now equally account for the burden associated with this final rule. 
As a result, the Corporation has submitted to OMB a request to 
implement, for three years, an information collection in connection 
with the final rule Resolution Plan submissions that accounts for half 
of the estimated burden associated with the final rule.
    The Corporation has submitted its request to OMB for review and 
approval under section 3507(d) of the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3507(d)) and 
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OMB's implementing regulations (5 CFR 1320). The Corporation submitted 
the information collection requirements to OMB at the proposed rule 
stage. OMB filed a comment assigning the Corporation OMB control number 
3064-0210 and requested that the Corporation make a submission to OMB 
after the proposed rule is finalized. The Board has reviewed the final 
rule under the authority delegated to the Board by OMB. The agencies 
did not receive any comments on the PRA.
Proposed Information Collection
    Title of Information Collection: Reporting Requirements Associated 
with Resolution Planning.
    Agency Form Number: FR QQ.
    OMB Control Number: 7100-0346.
    Frequency of Response: Biennially, Triennially.
    Respondents: Bank holding companies \53\ with assets of $250 
billion or more, bank holding companies with $100 billion or more with 
certain characteristics specified in the preamble, and nonbank 
financial firms designated by the Council for supervision by the Board.
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treated as, a bank holding company under section 8(a) of the 
International Banking Act of 1978, and meets the relevant total 
consolidated assets threshold.

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                      FR QQ                         respondents       Annual       average hours   annual burden
                                                       \54\          frequency     per response        hours
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Reduced Reporters...............................              71               1              60           4,260
December Filers:
    Tailored Reporters:
        Domestic................................              12               1           9,000         108,000
        Foreign.................................               5               1           1,130           5,650
Full Reporters:
    Domestic....................................               3               1          26,000          78,000
    Foreign.....................................               6               1           2,000          12,000
Complex Filers:
    Domestic....................................               8               1     \56\ 79,522         636,176
    Foreign.....................................               4               1          55,500         222,000
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        Current Total...........................  ..............  ..............  ..............       1,066,086
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Triennial Reduced...............................              53               1              20           1,060
Triennial Full:
    Complex Foreign.............................               4               1          13,135          52,540
    Foreign and Domestic........................               9               1           5,667          51,003
Biennial Filers:
    Domestic....................................               8               1          40,115         320,920
Waivers \57\....................................               2               1               1               2
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    Proposed Total..............................  ..............  ..............  ..............         425,525
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        Change..................................  ..............  ..............  ..............        -640,561
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    The agencies did not receive any comments on their proposed 
revisions to this information collection. Accordingly, with the 
exception of minor technical adjustments, the information collection 
revisions are adopted as proposed in the proposal and replicated in the 
chart above.
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    \54\ Of these respondents, none are small entities as defined by 
the Small Business Administration (i.e., entities with less than 
$600 million in total assets) www.sba.gov/document/support-table-size-standards.
    \55\ As of March 31, 2019.
    \56\ This estimate captures the annual time that complex 
domestic filers will spend complying with this collection, given 
that these filers will only submit two resolution plans over the 
three-year period covered by this notice. The estimate therefore 
represents two-thirds of the time these firms are estimated to spend 
on each resolution plan submission.
    \57\ The agencies cannot reasonably estimate how many of the 
firms that file resolution plans may submit waiver requests, nor how 
long it would take to prepare a waiver request. Accordingly, the 
agencies are including this line as a placeholder. To facilitate the 
split of the burden between the agencies, this placeholder has been 
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B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) generally requires that, in 
connection with a final rulemaking, an agency prepare and make 
available for public comment a final regulatory flexibility analysis 
describing the impact of the proposed rule on small entities.\58\ 
However, a regulatory flexibility analysis is not required if the 
agency certifies that the final rule will not have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. The Small 
Business Administration (SBA) has defined ``small entities'' to include 
banking organizations with total assets of less than or equal to $600 
million that are independently owned and operated or owned by a holding 
company with less than or equal to $600 million in total assets.\59\ 
For the reasons described below and under section 605(b) of the RFA, 
the agencies certify that the final rule will not have a significant 
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. As of March 
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insured depository institutions and approximately 3,198 bank holding 
companies that would fit the SBA's current definition of ``small 
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    \58\ 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.
    \59\ The SBA defines a small banking organization as having $600 
million or less in assets, where an organization's ``assets are 
determined by averaging the assets reported on its four quarterly 
financial statements for the preceding year.'' See 13 CFR 121.201 as 
amended by Small Business Size Standards: Adjustment of Monetary-
Based Size Standards for Inflation, 84 FR 34261 (July 18, 2019) 
(effective August 19, 2019). In its determination, the ``SBA counts 
the receipts, employees, or other measure of size of the concern 
whose size is at issue and all of its domestic and foreign 
affiliates.'' See 13 CFR 121.103. Following these regulations, the 
agencies use a covered entity's affiliated and acquired assets, 
averaged over the preceding four quarters, to determine whether the 
covered entity is ``small'' for the purposes of RFA.
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    As discussed in detail above, section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act 
requires certain financial companies to report periodically to the 
agencies their plans for rapid and orderly resolution under the 
Bankruptcy Code in the event of material financial distress or failure. 
This provision of the Dodd-Frank Act was amended by EGRRCPA in 2018. 
Specifically, EGRRCPA raised the $50 billion minimum asset threshold 
for general application of the resolution planning requirement to $250 
billion in total consolidated assets, and provided the Board with 
discretion to apply the resolution planning requirement to firms with 
$100 billion or more and less than $250 billion in total consolidated 
assets. EGRRCPA also provides that any bank holding company, regardless 
of asset size, that has been identified as a U.S. GSIB under the 
Board's U.S. GSIB surcharge rule shall be considered a bank holding 
company with $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets for 
purposes of the application of the resolution planning requirement.
    In accordance with section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank Act as amended 
by EGRRCPA, the Board is amending Regulation QQ \60\ and the 
Corporation is amending part 381 \61\ to amend the requirement that a 
covered company periodically submit a resolution plan to the Board and 
Corporation.\62\ The final rule also modifies the procedures for joint 
review of a resolution plan by the agencies. The reasons and 
justification for the final rule are described in the preamble.
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    \61\ 12 CFR part 381.
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    As discussed in the preamble, the final rule applies to covered 
companies, which include only bank holding companies and foreign 
banking organizations with at least $100 billion in total consolidated 
assets, and nonbank financial companies that the Council has determined 
under section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act must be supervised by the Board 
and for which such determination is in effect. The assets of a covered 
company substantially exceed the $600 million asset threshold under 
which a banking organization is considered a ``small entity'' under SBA 
regulations.\63\
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    \63\ The Dodd-Frank Act provides that the Board may, on the 
recommendation of the Council, increase the asset threshold for the 
application of the resolution planning requirements. 12 U.S.C. 
5365(a)(2)(B). However, neither the Board nor the Council has the 
authority to lower such threshold.
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    The final rule also applies to a nonbank financial company 
designated by the Council for supervision by the Board under section 
113 of the Dodd-Frank Act, regardless of such a company's asset size. 
As of the date of the adoption of the final rule, there are no such 
nonbank financial companies supervised by the Board. Although the asset 
size of nonbank financial companies may not be the sole determinative 
factor of whether such companies may pose systemic risks and would be 
designated by the Council for supervision by the Board, it is one 
consideration.\64\ It therefore may be unlikely that a financial firm 
that is at or below the $600 million asset threshold would be 
designated by the Council under section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act.
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    Because the final rule is not likely to apply to any company with 
assets of $600 million or less, it is not expected to apply to any 
small entity for purposes of the RFA. The agencies do not believe that 
the final rule duplicates, overlaps, or conflicts with any other 
Federal rules.
    In light of the foregoing, the Board and the Corporation certify 
that the final rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities supervised.

C. Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994

    Pursuant to section 302(a) of the Riegle Community Development and 
Regulatory Improvement Act (RCDRIA),\65\ in determining the effective 
date and administrative compliance requirements for new regulations 
that impose additional reporting, disclosure, or other requirements on 
insured depository institutions (IDIs), each Federal banking agency 
must consider, consistent with principles of safety and soundness and 
the public interest, any administrative burdens that such regulations 
would place on depository institutions, including small depository 
institutions, and customers of depository institutions, as well as the 
benefits of such regulations. In addition, section 302(b) of RCDRIA 
requires new regulations and amendments to regulations that impose 
additional reporting, disclosures, or other new requirements on IDIs 
generally to take effect on the first day of a calendar quarter that 
begins on or after the date on which the regulations are published in 
final form.\66\
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    Because the final rule would not impose additional reporting, 
disclosure, or other requirements on IDIs, section 302 of the RCDRIA 
therefore does not apply.

D. Plain Language

    Section 722 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \67\ requires the Federal 
banking agencies to use plain language in all proposed and final rules 
published after January 1, 2000. The agencies have sought to present 
the final rule in a simple and straightforward manner, and did not 
receive any comments on plain language.
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E. The Congressional Review Act

    For purposes of Congressional Review Act, the OMB makes a 
determination as to whether a final rule constitutes a ``major'' 
rule.\68\ If a rule is deemed a ``major rule'' by the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB), the Congressional Review Act generally 
provides that the rule may not take effect until at least 60 days 
following its publication.\69\
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    The Congressional Review Act defines a ``major rule'' as any rule 
that the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs of the OMB finds has resulted in or is likely to result in (A) 
an annual effect on the economy of $100,000,000 or more; (B) a major 
increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, 
Federal, State, or local government agencies or geographic regions, or 
(C) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, 
productivity, innovation, or on the ability of United States-based 
enterprises to compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and 
export markets.\70\
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    The OMB has determined that the final rule is not a ``major rule'' 
within the meaning of the Congressional Review Act. As required by the 
Congressional Review Act, the agencies will submit the final rule and 
other appropriate reports to Congress and the Government Accountability 
Office for review.

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PART [ ]--RESOLUTION PLANS

Sec.
__.1 Authority and scope.
__.2 Definitions.
__.3 Critical operations.
__.4 Resolution plan required.
__.5 Informational content of a full resolution plan.
__.6 Informational content of a targeted resolution plan.
__.7 Informational content of a reduced resolution plan.
__.8 Review of resolution plans; resubmission of deficient 
resolution plans.
__.9 Failure to cure deficiencies on resubmission of a resolution 
plan.
__.10 Consultation.
__.11 No limiting effect or private right of action; confidentiality 
of resolution plans.
__.12 Enforcement.


Sec.  __.1  Authority and scope.

    (a) Authority. This part is issued pursuant to section 165(d)(8) of 
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub. L. 
111-203, 124 Stat. 1376, 1426-1427), as amended by the Economic Growth, 
Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (Pub. L. 115-174, 132 
Stat. 1296) (the Dodd-Frank Act), 12 U.S.C. 5365(d)(8), which requires 
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) and the 
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Corporation) to jointly issue 
rules implementing the provisions of section 165(d) of the Dodd-Frank 
Act.
    (b) Scope. This part applies to each covered company and 
establishes rules and requirements regarding the submission and content 
of a resolution plan, as well as procedures for review by the Board and 
Corporation of a resolution plan.


Sec.  __.2   Definitions.

    For purposes of this part:
    Bankruptcy Code means Title 11 of the United States Code.
    Biennial filer is defined in Sec.  __.4(a)(1).
    Category II banking organization means a covered company that is a 
category II banking organization pursuant to Sec.  252.5 of this title.
    Category III banking organization means a covered company that is a 
category III banking organization pursuant to Sec.  252.5 of this 
title.
    Company means a corporation, partnership, limited liability 
company, depository institution, business trust, special purpose 
entity, association, or similar organization, but does not include any 
organization, the majority of the voting securities of which are owned 
by the United States.
    Control. A company controls another company when the first company, 
directly or indirectly, owns, or holds with power to vote, 25 percent 
or more of any class of the second company's outstanding voting 
securities.
    Core business lines means those business lines of the covered 
company, including associated operations, services, functions and 
support, that, in the view of the covered company, upon failure would 
result in a material loss of revenue, profit, or franchise value.
    Core elements mean the information required to be included in a 
full resolution plan pursuant to Sec.  __.5(c), (d)(1)(i), (iii), and 
(iv), (e)(1)(ii), (e)(2), (3), and (5), (f)(1)(v), and (g) regarding 
capital, liquidity, and the covered company's plan for executing any 
recapitalization contemplated in its resolution plan, including updated 
quantitative financial information and analyses important to the 
execution of the covered company's resolution strategy.
    Council means the Financial Stability Oversight Council established 
by section 111 of the Dodd-Frank Act (12 U.S.C. 5321).
    Covered company--(1) In general. A covered company means:
    (i) Any nonbank financial company supervised by the Board;
    (ii) Any global systemically important BHC;
    (iii) Any bank holding company, as that term is defined in section 
2 of the Bank Holding Company Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 1841), and 
part 225 of this title (the Board's Regulation Y), that has $250 
billion or more in total consolidated assets, as determined based on 
the average of the company's four most recent Consolidated Financial 
Statements for Holding Companies as reported on the Federal Reserve's 
Form FR Y-9C; provided that in the case of a company whose total 
consolidated assets have increased as the result of a merger, 
acquisition, combination, or similar transaction, the Board and the 
Corporation may alternatively consider, in their discretion, to the 
extent and in the manner the Board and the Corporation jointly consider 
to be appropriate, one or more of the four most recent Consolidated 
Financial Statements for Holding Companies as reported on the Federal 
Reserve's Form FR Y-9C or Capital and Asset Reports for Foreign Banking 
Organizations as reported on the Federal Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q of the 
companies that were party to the merger, acquisition, combination or 
similar transaction;
    (iv) Any foreign bank or company that is a bank holding company or 
is treated as a bank holding company under section 8(a) of the 
International Banking Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3106(a)), and that has 
$250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, as determined 
annually based on the foreign bank's or company's most recent annual 
or, as applicable, quarterly based on the average of the foreign bank's 
or company's four most recent quarterly Capital and Asset Reports for 
Foreign Banking Organizations as reported on the Federal Reserve's Form 
FR Y-7Q; provided that in the case of a company whose total 
consolidated assets have increased as the result of a merger, 
acquisition, combination, or similar transaction, the Board and the 
Corporation may alternatively consider, in their discretion, to the 
extent and in the manner the Board and the Corporation jointly consider 
to be appropriate, one or more of the four most recent Consolidated 
Financial Statements for Holding Companies as reported on the Federal 
Reserve's Form FR Y-9C or Capital and Asset Reports for Foreign Banking 
Organizations as reported on the Federal Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q of the 
companies that were party to the merger, acquisition, combination or 
similar transaction; and
    (v) Any additional covered company as determined pursuant to Sec.  
243.13.
    (2) Cessation of covered company status for nonbank financial 
companies supervised by the Board and global systemically important 
BHCs. Once a covered company meets the requirements described in 
paragraph (1)(i) or (ii) of this definition of covered company, the 
company shall remain a covered company until it no longer meets any of 
the requirements described in paragraph (1) of this definition of 
covered company.
    (3) Cessation of covered company status for other covered 
companies. Once a company meets the requirements described in paragraph 
(1)(iii) or (iv) of this definition of covered company, the company 
shall remain a covered company until--
    (i) In the case of a covered company described in paragraph 
(1)(iii) of this definition of covered company or a covered company 
described in paragraph (1)(iv) of this definition of covered company 
that files quarterly Capital and Asset Reports for Foreign Banking 
Organizations on the Federal Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q, the company has 
reported total consolidated assets that are below $250 billion for each 
of four consecutive quarters, as determined based on its total 
consolidated assets as reported on each of its four most recent 
Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies on the Federal 
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Asset Reports for Foreign Banking Organizations on the Federal 
Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q, as applicable; or
    (ii) In the case of a covered company described in paragraph 
(1)(iv) of this definition of covered company that does not file 
quarterly Capital and Asset Reports for Foreign Banking Organizations 
on the Federal Reserve's Form FR Y-7Q, the company has reported total 
consolidated assets that are below $250 billion for each of two 
consecutive years, as determined based on its total consolidated assets 
as reported on each of its two most recent annual Capital and Asset 
Reports for Foreign Banking Organizations on the Federal Reserve's Form 
FR Y-7Q, or such earlier time as jointly determined by the Board and 
the Corporation.
    (4) Multi-tiered holding company. In a multi-tiered holding company 
structure, covered company means the top-tier of the multi-tiered 
holding company unless the Board and the Corporation jointly identify a 
different holding company to satisfy the requirements that apply to the 
covered company. In making this determination, the Board and the 
Corporation shall consider:
    (i) The ownership structure of the foreign banking organization, 
including whether the foreign banking organization is owned or 
controlled by a foreign government;
    (ii) Whether the action would be consistent with the purposes of 
this part; and
    (iii) Any other factors that the Board and the Corporation 
determine are relevant.
    (5) Asset threshold for bank holding companies and foreign banking 
organizations. The Board may, pursuant to a recommendation of the 
Council, raise any asset threshold specified in paragraph (1)(iii) or 
(iv) of this definition of covered company.
    (6) Exclusion. A bridge financial company chartered pursuant to 12 
U.S.C. 5390(h) shall not be deemed to be a covered company hereunder.
    Critical operations means those operations of the covered company, 
including associated services, functions and support, the failure or 
discontinuance of which would pose a threat to the financial stability 
of the United States.
    Deficiency is defined in Sec.  __.8(b).
    Depository institution has the same meaning as in section 3(c)(1) 
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1813(c)(1)) and 
includes a state-licensed uninsured branch, agency, or commercial 
lending subsidiary of a foreign bank.
    Foreign banking organization means--
    (1) A foreign bank, as defined in section 1(b)(7) of the 
International Banking Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3101(7)), that:
    (i) Operates a branch, agency, or commercial lending company 
subsidiary in the United States;
    (ii) Controls a bank in the United States; or
    (iii) Controls an Edge corporation acquired after March 5, 1987; 
and
    (2) Any company of which the foreign bank is a subsidiary.
    Foreign-based covered company means any covered company that is not 
incorporated or organized under the laws of the United States.
    Full resolution plan means a full resolution plan described in 
Sec.  __.5.
    Functionally regulated subsidiary has the same meaning as in 
section 5(c)(5) of the Bank Holding Company Act, as amended (12 U.S.C. 
1844(c)(5)).
    Global systemically important BHC means a covered company that is a 
global systemically important BHC pursuant to Sec.  252.5 of this 
title.
    Identified critical operations means the critical operations of the 
covered company identified by the covered company or jointly identified 
by the Board and the Corporation under Sec.  __.3(b)(2).
    Material change means an event, occurrence, change in conditions or 
circumstances, or other change that results in, or could reasonably be 
foreseen to have, a material effect on:
    (1) The resolvability of the covered company;
    (2) The covered company's resolution strategy; or
    (3) How the covered company's resolution strategy is implemented. 
Such changes include, but are not limited to:
    (i) The identification of a new critical operation or core business 
line;
    (ii) The identification of a new material entity or the de-
identification of a material entity;
    (iii) Significant increases or decreases in the business, 
operations, or funding or interconnections of a material entity; or
    (iv) Changes in the primary regulatory authorities of a material 
entity or the covered company on a consolidated basis.
    Material entity means a subsidiary or foreign office of the covered 
company that is significant to the activities of an identified critical 
operation or core business line, or is financially or operationally 
significant to the resolution of the covered company.
    Material financial distress with regard to a covered company means 
that:
    (1) The covered company has incurred, or is likely to incur, losses 
that will deplete all or substantially all of its capital, and there is 
no reasonable prospect for the company to avoid such depletion;
    (2) The assets of the covered company are, or are likely to be, 
less than its obligations to creditors and others; or
    (3) The covered company is, or is likely to be, unable to pay its 
obligations (other than those subject to a bona fide dispute) in the 
normal course of business.
    Nonbank financial company supervised by the Board means a nonbank 
financial company or other company that the Council has determined 
under section 113 of the Dodd-Frank Act (12 U.S.C. 5323) shall be 
supervised by the Board and for which such determination is still in 
effect.
    Rapid and orderly resolution means a reorganization or liquidation 
of the covered company (or, in the case of a covered company that is 
incorporated or organized in a jurisdiction other than the United 
States, the subsidiaries and operations of such foreign company that 
are domiciled in the United States) under the Bankruptcy Code that can 
be accomplished within a reasonable period of time and in a manner that 
substantially mitigates the risk that the failure of the covered 
company would have serious adverse effects on financial stability in 
the United States.
    Reduced resolution plan means a reduced resolution plan described 
in Sec.  __.7.
    Shortcoming is defined in Sec.  __.8(e).
    Subsidiary means a company that is controlled by another company, 
and an indirect subsidiary is a company that is controlled by a 
subsidiary of a company.
    Targeted resolution plan means a targeted resolution plan described 
in Sec.  __.6.
    Triennial full filer is defined in Sec.  __.4(b)(1).
    Triennial reduced filer is defined in Sec.  __.4(c)(1).
    United States means the United States and includes any state of the 
United States, the District of Columbia, any territory of the United 
States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands.


Sec.  __.3   Critical operations.

    (a) Identification of critical operations by covered companies--(1) 
Process and methodology required. (i) Each biennial filer and triennial 
full filer shall establish and implement a process designed to identify 
each of its critical operations. After July 1, 2022, each triennial 
reduced filer that has any identified critical operation shall 
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designed to identify each of its critical operations. The scale of the 
process must be appropriate to the nature, size, complexity, and scope 
of the covered company's operations. The covered company must review 
its process periodically and update it as necessary to ensure its 
continued effectiveness. The covered company shall describe its process 
and how it is applied as part of its corporate governance relating to 
resolution planning under Sec.  __.5(d)(1). The covered company must 
conduct the process described in this paragraph (a)(1) sufficiently in 
advance of its next resolution plan submission so that the covered 
company is prepared to submit the information required under Sec. Sec.  
__.5 through __.7 for each identified critical operation.
    (ii) The process required under paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section 
must include a methodology for evaluating the covered company's 
participation in activities and markets that may be critical to the 
financial stability of the United States. The methodology must be 
designed, taking into account the nature, size, complexity, and scope 
of the covered company's operations, to identify and assess:
    (A) The markets and activities in which the covered company 
participates or has operations;
    (B) The significance of those markets and activities with respect 
to the financial stability of the United States; and
    (C) The significance of the covered company as a provider or other 
participant in those markets and activities.
    (2) Waiver requests. A covered company that has previously 
submitted a resolution plan under this part may request a waiver of the 
requirement to have a process and methodology under paragraph (a)(1) of 
this section by submitting a waiver request in accordance with this 
paragraph (a)(2) if the covered company does not have an identified 
critical operation as of the date it submits the waiver request.
    (i) Each waiver request shall be divided into a public section and 
a confidential section. A covered company shall segregate and 
separately identify the public section from the confidential section. A 
covered company shall include in the confidential section of a waiver 
request its rationale for why a waiver of the requirement would be 
appropriate, including an explanation of why the process and 
methodology are not likely to identify any critical operation given its 
business model, operations, and organizational structure. A covered 
company shall describe in the public section of a waiver request that 
it is seeking to waive the requirement.
    (ii) Any waiver request must be made in writing no later than 18 
months before the date by which the covered company is required to 
submit its next resolution plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with 
respect to any resolution plan that a covered company is required to 
submit on or before July 1, 2021, any waiver request must be made in 
writing no later than 17 months before that date.
    (iii) The Board and Corporation may jointly approve or deny a 
waiver request in their discretion. Unless the Board and the 
Corporation have jointly approved a waiver request, the waiver request 
will be deemed denied on the date that is 12 months before the date by 
which the covered company is required to submit the resolution plan 
that immediately follows submission of the waiver request.
    (iv) An approved waiver request under this paragraph (a)(2) is 
effective for the resolution plan submission that immediately follows 
submission of the waiver request and for any resolution plan submitted 
thereafter until, but not including, the covered company's next full 
resolution plan submission.
    (3) Limited exemption. A foreign-based covered company is exempt 
from the requirement to have a process and methodology under paragraph 
(a)(1) of this section in connection with any requirement to submit a 
resolution plan on or before July 1, 2021 if the foreign-based covered 
company does not have an identified critical operation as of the date 
that is 17 months before the date by which the covered company is 
required to submit the resolution plan.
    (b) Joint identification of critical operations by the Board and 
the Corporation. (1) The Board and the Corporation shall, not less 
frequently than every six years, jointly review the operations of 
covered companies to determine whether to jointly identify critical 
operations of any covered company in accordance with paragraph (b)(2) 
of this section, or to jointly rescind any currently effective joint 
identification in accordance with paragraph (b)(3) of this section.
    (2) If the Board and the Corporation jointly identify a covered 
company's operation as a critical operation, the Board and the 
Corporation shall jointly notify the covered company in writing. A 
covered company is not required to include the information required 
under Sec. Sec.  __.5 through __.7 for the identified critical 
operation in any resolution plan that the covered company is required 
to submit within 12 months after the joint notification unless the 
operation had been identified by the covered company as a critical 
operation on or before the date the Board and the Corporation jointly 
notified the covered company.
    (3) The Board and the Corporation may jointly rescind a joint 
identification under paragraph (b)(2) of this section by providing the 
covered company with joint notice of the rescission. Upon the 
notification, the covered company is not required to include the 
information regarding the operation required for identified critical 
operations under Sec. Sec.  __.5 through __.7 in any subsequent 
resolution plan unless:
    (i) The covered company identifies the operation as a critical 
operation; or
    (ii) The Board and the Corporation subsequently provide a joint 
notification under paragraph (b)(2) of this section to the covered 
company regarding the operation.
    (4) A joint notification provided by the Board and the Corporation 
to a covered company before [effective date of final rule] that 
identifies any of its operations as a critical operation and not 
previously jointly rescinded is deemed to be a joint identification 
under paragraph (b)(2) of this section.
    (c) Request for reconsideration of jointly identified critical 
operations. A covered company may request that the Board and the 
Corporation reconsider a joint identification under paragraph (b)(2) of 
this section in accordance with this paragraph (c).
    (1) Written request for reconsideration. The covered company must 
submit a written request for reconsideration to the Board and the 
Corporation that includes a clear and complete statement of all 
arguments and all relevant, material information that the covered 
company expects to have considered. If a covered company has previously 
requested reconsideration regarding the operation, the written request 
must also describe the material differences between the new request and 
the most recent prior request.
    (2) Timing. (i) If a covered company submits a request for 
reconsideration on or before the date that is 18 months before the date 
by which it is required to submit its next resolution plan, the Board 
and the Corporation will complete their reconsideration no later than 
12 months before the date by which the covered company is required to 
submit its next resolution plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the 
Board and the Corporation jointly find that additional information from 
the covered company is required to complete their reconsideration, the 
Board and the Corporation will jointly request in writing the 
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The Board and the Corporation will then complete their reconsideration 
no later than the later of:
    (A) Ninety (90) days after receipt of all additional information 
from the covered company; and
    (B) Twelve (12) months before the date by which the covered company 
is required to submit its next resolution plan.
    (ii) If a covered company submits a request for reconsideration 
less than 18 months before the date by which it is required to submit 
its next resolution plan, the Board and the Corporation may, in their 
discretion, defer reconsideration of the joint identification until 
after the submission of that resolution plan, with the result that the 
covered company must include the identified critical operation in that 
resolution plan and the Board and the Corporation will complete their 
reconsideration in accordance with paragraph (c)(2)(i) of this section 
as though the covered company had submitted the request after the date 
by which the covered company is required to submit that resolution 
plan.
    (3) Joint communication following reconsideration. The Board and 
the Corporation will communicate jointly the results of their 
reconsideration in writing to the covered company.
    (d) De-identification by covered company of self-identified 
critical operations. A covered company may cease to include in its 
resolution plans the information required under Sec. Sec.  __.5 through 
__.7 regarding an operation previously identified only by the covered 
company (and not also jointly by the Board and the Corporation) as a 
critical operation only in accordance with this paragraph (d).
    (1) Notice of de-identification. If a covered company ceases to 
identify an operation as a critical operation, the covered company must 
notify the Board and the Corporation of its de-identification. The 
notice must be in writing and include a clear and complete explanation 
of:
    (i) Why the covered company previously identified the operation as 
a critical operation; and
    (ii) Why the covered company no longer identifies the operation as 
a critical operation.
    (2) Timing. Notwithstanding a covered company's de-identification, 
and unless otherwise notified in writing jointly by the Board and the 
Corporation, a covered company shall include the applicable information 
required under Sec. Sec.  __.5 through Sec.  __.7 regarding an 
operation previously identified by the covered company as a critical 
operation in any resolution plan the covered company is required to 
submit during the period ending 12 months after the covered company 
notifies the Board and the Corporation in accordance with paragraph 
(d)(1) of this section.
    (3) No effect on joint identifications. Neither a covered company's 
de-identification nor notice thereof under paragraph (d)(1) of this 
section rescinds a joint identification made by the Board and the 
Corporation under paragraph (b)(2) of this section.


Sec.  __.4  Resolution plan required.

    (a) Biennial filers--(1) Group members. Biennial filer means:
    (i) Any global systemically important BHC; and
    (ii) Any nonbank financial company supervised by the Board that has 
not been jointly designated a triennial full filer by the Board and 
Corporation under paragraph (a)(2) of this section or that has been 
jointly re-designated a biennial filer by the Board and the Corporation 
under paragraph (a)(2) of this section.
    (2) Nonbank financial companies. The Board and the Corporation may 
jointly designate a nonbank financial company supervised by the Board 
as a triennial full filer in their discretion, taking into account 
facts and circumstances that each of the Board and the Corporation in 
its discretion determines to be relevant. The Board and the Corporation 
may in their discretion jointly re-designate as a biennial filer a 
nonbank financial company that the Board and the Corporation had 
previously designated as a triennial filer, taking into account facts 
and circumstances that each of the Board and the Corporation in its 
discretion determines to be relevant.
    (3) Frequency of submission. Biennial filers shall each submit a 
resolution plan to the Board and the Corporation every two years.
    (4) Submission date. Biennial filers shall submit their resolution 
plans on or before July 1 of each year in which a resolution plan is 
due.
    (5) Type of resolution plan required to be submitted. Biennial 
filers shall alternate submitting a full resolution plan and a targeted 
resolution plan.
    (6) New covered companies that are biennial filers. A company that 
becomes a covered company and a biennial filer after [effective date of 
final rule] shall submit a full resolution plan on or before the next 
date by which the other biennial filers are required to submit 
resolution plans pursuant to paragraph (a)(4) of this section that 
occurs no earlier than 12 months after the date as of which the company 
became a covered company. The company's subsequent resolution plans 
shall be of the type required to be submitted by the other biennial 
filers.
    (b) Triennial full filers--(1) Group members. Triennial full filer 
means:
    (i) Any category II banking organization;
    (ii) Any category III banking organization; and
    (iii) Any nonbank financial company supervised by the Board that is 
jointly designated a triennial full filer by the Board and Corporation 
under paragraph (a)(2) of this section.
    (2) Frequency of submission. Triennial full filers shall each 
submit a resolution plan to the Board and the Corporation every three 
years.
    (3) Submission date. Triennial full filers shall submit their 
resolution plans on or before July 1 of each year in which a resolution 
plan is due.
    (4) Type of resolution plan required to be submitted. Triennial 
full filers shall alternate submitting a full resolution plan and a 
targeted resolution plan.
    (5) New covered companies that are triennial full filers. A company 
that becomes a covered company and a triennial full filer after 
[effective date of final rule] shall submit a full resolution plan on 
or before the next date by which the other triennial full filers are 
required to submit resolution plans pursuant to paragraph (b)(3) of 
this section that occurs no earlier than 12 months after the date as of 
which the company became a covered company. The company's subsequent 
resolution plans shall be of the type required to be submitted by the 
other triennial full filers.
    (c) Triennial reduced filers--(1) Group members. Triennial reduced 
filer means any covered company that is not a global systemically 
important BHC, nonbank financial company supervised by the Board, 
category II banking organization, or category III banking organization.
    (2) Frequency of submission. Triennial reduced filers shall each 
submit a resolution plan to the Board and the Corporation every three 
years.
    (3) Submission date. Triennial reduced filers shall submit their 
resolution plans on or before July 1 of each year in which a resolution 
plan is due.
    (4) Type of resolution plan required to be submitted. Triennial 
reduced filers shall submit a reduced resolution plan.
    (5) New covered companies that are triennial reduced filers. A 
company that becomes a covered company and a triennial reduced filer 
after December 31, 2019 shall submit a full resolution plan on or 
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the other triennial reduced filers are required to submit resolution 
plans pursuant to paragraph (c)(3) of this section that occurs no 
earlier than 12 months after the date as of which the company became a 
covered company. The company's subsequent resolution plans shall be 
reduced resolution plans.
    (d) General--(1) Changing filing groups. If a covered company that 
is a member of a filing group specified in paragraphs (a) through (c) 
of this section (``original group filer'') becomes a member of a 
different filing group specified in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this 
section (``new group filer''), then the covered company shall submit 
its next resolution plan as follows:
    (i) If the next date by which the original group filers are 
required to submit their next resolution plans is the same date by 
which the other new group filers are required to submit their next 
resolution plans and:
    (A) That date is less than 12 months after the date as of which the 
covered company became a new group filer, the covered company shall 
submit its next resolution plan on or before that date. The resolution 
plan may be the type of resolution plan that the original group filers 
are required to submit on or before that date or the type of resolution 
plan that the other new group filers are required to submit on or 
before that date.
    (B) That date is 12 months or more after the date as of which the 
covered company became a new group filer, the covered company shall 
submit on or before that date the type of resolution plan the other new 
group filers are required to submit on or before that date.
    (ii) If the next date by which the original group filers are 
required to submit their next resolution plans is different from the 
date by which the new group filers are required to submit their next 
resolution plans, the covered company shall submit its next resolution 
plan on or before the next date by which the other new group filers are 
required to submit a resolution plan that occurs no earlier than 12 
months after the date as of which the covered company became a new 
group filer. The covered company shall submit the type of resolution 
plan that the other new group filers are required to submit on or 
before the date the covered company is required to submit its next 
resolution plan.
    (iii) Notwithstanding paragraph (d)(1)(i) or (ii) of this section, 
any triennial reduced filer that becomes a biennial filer or a 
triennial full filer shall submit a full resolution plan on or before 
the next date by which the other new group filers are required to 
submit their next resolution plans that occurs no earlier than 12 
months after the date as of which the covered company became a new 
group filer. After submitting a full resolution plan, the covered 
company shall submit, on or before the next date that the other new 
group filers are required to submit their next resolution plans, the 
type of resolution plan the other new group filers are required to 
submit on or before that date.
    (2) Altering submission dates. Notwithstanding anything to the 
contrary in this part, the Board and Corporation may jointly determine 
that a covered company shall submit its resolution plan on or before a 
date other than as provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) or paragraph 
(d)(1) of this section. The Board and the Corporation shall provide a 
covered company with written notice of a determination under this 
paragraph (d)(2) no later than 12 months before the date by which the 
covered company is required to submit the resolution plan.
    (3) Authority to require interim updates. The Board and the 
Corporation may jointly require that a covered company submit an update 
to a resolution plan submitted under this part, within a reasonable 
amount of time, as jointly determined by the Board and Corporation. The 
Board and the Corporation shall notify the covered company of its 
requirement to submit an update under this paragraph (d)(3) in writing, 
and shall specify the portions or aspects of the resolution plan the 
covered company shall update.
    (4) Notice of extraordinary events--(i) In general. Each covered 
company shall provide the Board and the Corporation with a notice no 
later than 45 days after any material merger, acquisition of assets, or 
similar transaction or fundamental change to the covered company's 
resolution strategy. Such notice must describe the event and explain 
how the event affects the resolvability of the covered company. The 
covered company shall address any event with respect to which it has 
provided notice pursuant to this paragraph (d)(4)(i) in the following 
resolution plan submitted by the covered company.
    (ii) Exception. A covered company shall not be required to submit a 
notice under paragraph (d)(4)(i) of this section if the date by which 
the covered company would be required to submit the notice under 
paragraph (d)(4)(i) of this section would be within 90 days before the 
date by which the covered company is required to submit a resolution 
plan under this section.
    (5) Authority to require a full resolution plan submission. 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this part, the Board and 
Corporation may jointly require a covered company to submit a full 
resolution plan instead of a targeted resolution plan or a reduced 
resolution plan that the covered company is otherwise required to 
submit under this section. The Board and the Corporation shall provide 
a covered company with written notice of a determination under this 
paragraph (d)(5) no later than 12 months before the date by which the 
covered company is required to submit the full resolution plan. The 
date on or before which a full resolution plan must be submitted under 
this paragraph (d)(5) will be the date by which the covered company 
would otherwise be required to submit its upcoming targeted resolution 
plan or reduced resolution plan under paragraphs (a) through (c), or 
(d)(1) or (2) of this section. The requirement to submit a full 
resolution plan under this paragraph (d)(5) does not alter the type of 
resolution plan the covered company will subsequently be required to 
submit under this section.
    (6) Waivers--(i) Authority to waive requirements. The Board and the 
Corporation may jointly waive one or more of the resolution plan 
requirements of Sec.  __.5, Sec.  __.6, or Sec.  __.7 for one or more 
covered companies for any number of resolution plan submissions. A 
request pursuant to paragraph (d)(6)(ii) of this section is not 
required for the Board and Corporation to exercise their authority 
under this paragraph (d)(6)(i).
    (ii) Waiver requests by covered companies. In connection with the 
submission of a full resolution plan, a triennial full filer or 
triennial reduced filer that has previously submitted a resolution plan 
under this part may request a waiver of one or more of the 
informational content requirements of Sec.  __.5 in accordance with 
this paragraph (d)(6)(ii).
    (A) A requirement to include any of the following information is 
not eligible for a waiver at the request of a triennial full filer or 
triennial reduced filer:
    (1) Information specified in section 165(d)(1)(A) through (C) of 
the Dodd-Frank Act (12 U.S.C. 5365(d)(1)(A) through (C));
    (2) Any core element;
    (3) Information required to be included in the public section of a 
full resolution plan under Sec.  __.11(c)(2);
    (4) Information about the remediation of any previously identified 
deficiency or shortcoming unless the Board and the Corporation have 
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reduced filer has satisfactorily remedied the deficiency or addressed 
the shortcoming before its submission of the waiver request; or
    (5) Information about changes to the triennial full filer or 
triennial reduced filer's last submitted resolution plan resulting from 
any:
    (i) Change in law or regulation;
    (ii) Guidance or feedback from the Board and the Corporation; or
    (iii) Any material change experienced by the triennial full filer 
or triennial reduced filer since it submitted that resolution plan.
    (B) Each waiver request shall be divided into a public section and 
a confidential section. A triennial full filer or triennial reduced 
filer shall segregate and separately identify the public section from 
the confidential section.
    (1) The triennial full filer or triennial reduced filer shall 
include in the confidential section of a waiver request a clear and 
complete explanation of why:
    (i) Each requirement sought to be waived is not a requirement 
described in paragraph (d)(6)(ii)(A) of this section;
    (ii) The information sought to be waived would not be relevant to 
the Board's and Corporation's review of the triennial full filer or 
triennial reduced filer's next full resolution plan; and
    (iii) A waiver of each requirement would be appropriate.
    (2) The triennial full filer or triennial reduced filer shall 
include in the public section of a waiver request a list of the 
requirements that it is requesting be waived.
    (C) A triennial full filer or triennial reduced filer may not make 
more than one waiver request for any full resolution plan submission 
and any waiver request must be made in writing no later than 18 months 
before the date by which the triennial full filer or triennial reduced 
filer is required to submit the full resolution plan.
    (D) The Board and Corporation may jointly approve or deny a waiver 
request, in whole or in part, in their discretion. Unless the Board and 
the Corporation have jointly approved a waiver request, the waiver 
request will be deemed denied on the date that is 12 months before the 
date by which the triennial full filer or triennial reduced filer is 
required to submit the full resolution plan to which the waiver request 
relates.
    (E) An approved waiver request under this paragraph (d)(6)(ii) is 
effective for only the full resolution plan that immediately follows 
submission of the waiver request.
    (e) Access to information. In order to allow evaluation of a 
resolution plan, each covered company must provide the Board and the 
Corporation such information and access to personnel of the covered 
company as the Board and the Corporation jointly determine during the 
period for reviewing the resolution plan is necessary to assess the 
credibility of the resolution plan and the ability of the covered 
company to implement the resolution plan. In order to facilitate review 
of any waiver request by a covered company under Sec.  __.3(a)(2) or 
paragraph (d)(6)(ii) of this section, or any joint identification of a 
critical operation of a covered company under Sec.  __.3(b), each 
covered company must provide such information and access to personnel 
of the covered company as the Board and the Corporation jointly 
determine is necessary to evaluate the waiver request or whether the 
operation is a critical operation. The Board and the Corporation will 
rely to the fullest extent possible on examinations conducted by or on 
behalf of the appropriate Federal banking agency for the relevant 
company.
    (f) Board of directors approval of resolution plan. Before 
submission of a resolution plan under paragraphs (a) through (c) of 
this section, the resolution plan of a covered company shall be 
approved by:
    (1) The board of directors of the covered company and noted in the 
minutes; or
    (2) In the case of a foreign-based covered company only, a delegee 
acting under the express authority of the board of directors of the 
covered company to approve the resolution plan.
    (g) Resolution plans provided to the Council. The Board shall make 
the resolution plans and updates submitted by the covered company 
pursuant to this section available to the Council upon request.
    (h) Required and prohibited assumptions. In preparing its 
resolution plan, a covered company shall:
    (1) Take into account that the material financial distress or 
failure of the covered company may occur under the severely adverse 
economic conditions provided to the covered company by the Board 
pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 5365(i)(1)(B);
    (2) Not rely on the provision of extraordinary support by the 
United States or any other government to the covered company or its 
subsidiaries to prevent the failure of the covered company, including 
any resolution actions taken outside the United States that would 
eliminate the need for any of a covered company's U.S. subsidiaries to 
enter into resolution proceedings; and
    (3) With respect to foreign banking organizations, not assume that 
the covered company takes resolution actions outside of the United 
States that would eliminate the need for any U.S. subsidiaries to enter 
into resolution proceedings.
    (i) Point of contact. Each covered company shall identify a senior 
management official at the covered company responsible for serving as a 
point of contact regarding the resolution plan of the covered company.
    (j) Incorporation of previously submitted resolution plan 
information by reference. Any resolution plan submitted by a covered 
company may incorporate by reference information from a resolution plan 
previously submitted by the covered company to the Board and the 
Corporation, provided that:
    (1) The resolution plan seeking to incorporate information by 
reference clearly indicates:
    (i) The information the covered company is incorporating by 
reference; and
    (ii) Which of the covered company's previously submitted resolution 
plan(s) originally contained the information the covered company is 
incorporating by reference and the specific location of the information 
in the covered company's previously submitted resolution plan; and
    (2) The covered company certifies that the information the covered 
company is incorporating by reference remains accurate in all respects 
that are material to the covered company's resolution plan.
    (k) Initial resolution plans after effective date. (1) 
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in paragraphs (a) through (c) 
or (d)(1) of this section, each company that is a covered company as of 
December 31, 2019 is required to submit its initial resolution plan 
after December 31, 2019, as provided in this paragraph (k). The 
submission date and resolution plan type for each subsequent resolution 
plan will be determined pursuant to paragraphs (a) through (d) of this 
section.
    (i) Biennial filers. Each covered company that is a biennial filer 
on October 1, 2020 and remains a biennial filer as of July 1, 2021, is 
required to submit a targeted resolution plan pursuant to paragraph 
(a)(4) of this section on or before July 1, 2021.
    (ii) Triennial full filers. Each covered company that is a 
triennial full filer on October 1, 2020 and remains a triennial full 
filer as of July 1, 2021 is required

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to submit a targeted resolution plan pursuant to paragraph (b)(3) of 
this section on or before July 1, 2021.
    (iii) Triennial reduced filers. Each covered company that is a 
triennial reduced filer on October 1, 2020 and remains a triennial 
reduced filer as of July 1, 2022 is required to submit a reduced 
resolution plan pursuant to paragraph (c)(3) of this section on or 
before July 1, 2022.
    (2) With respect to any company that is a covered company as of 
December 31, 2019, and changes filings groups specified in paragraphs 
(a) through (c) of this section after October 1, 2020 and before the 
date by which it would be required to submit a resolution plan under 
paragraph (k)(1) of this section, the requirements for its initial 
resolution plan after it changes filing groups will be determined 
pursuant to paragraph (d)(1) of this section.
    (3) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this paragraph (k), 
a covered company that has been jointly directed by the Board and the 
Corporation before December 31, 2019, to submit a resolution plan on or 
before July 1, 2020 describing changes it has made to its most recent 
resolution plan submission to address each shortcoming the agencies 
identified in that resolution plan shall submit a responsive resolution 
plan on or before July 1, 2020 in addition to any resolution plan that 
such covered company is otherwise required to submit under this 
section. The requirement to submit such a resolution plan on or before 
July 1, 2020 does not alter the timing or type of resolution plan any 
such covered company is required to submit under this section after 
July 1, 2020.


Sec.  __.5  Informational content of a full resolution plan.

    (a) In general--(1) Domestic covered companies. A full resolution 
plan of a covered company that is organized or incorporated in the 
United States shall include the information specified in paragraphs (b) 
through (h) of this section with respect to the subsidiaries and 
operations that are domiciled in the United States as well as the 
foreign subsidiaries, offices, and operations of the covered company.
    (2) Foreign-based covered companies. A full resolution plan of a 
covered company that is organized or incorporated in a jurisdiction 
other than the United States (other than a bank holding company) or 
that is a foreign banking organization shall include:
    (i) The information specified in paragraphs (b) through (h) of this 
section with respect to the subsidiaries, branches and agencies, and 
identified critical operations and core business lines, as applicable, 
that are domiciled in the United States or conducted in whole or 
material part in the United States. With respect to the information 
specified in paragraph (g) of this section, the resolution plan of a 
foreign-based covered company shall also identify, describe in detail, 
and map to legal entity the interconnections and interdependencies 
among the U.S. subsidiaries, branches, and agencies, and between those 
entities and:
    (A) The identified critical operations and core business lines of 
the foreign-based covered company; and
    (B) Any foreign-based affiliate; and
    (ii) A detailed explanation of how resolution planning for the 
subsidiaries, branches and agencies, and identified critical operations 
and core business lines of the foreign-based covered company that are 
domiciled in the United States or conducted in whole or material part 
in the United States is integrated into the foreign-based covered 
company's overall resolution or other contingency planning process.
    (b) Executive summary. Each full resolution plan of a covered 
company shall include an executive summary describing:
    (1) The key elements of the covered company's strategic plan for 
rapid and orderly resolution in the event of material financial 
distress at or failure of the covered company;
    (2) A description of each material change experienced by the 
covered company since the filing of the covered company's previously 
submitted resolution plan (or affirmation that no such material change 
has occurred);
    (3) Changes to the covered company's previously submitted 
resolution plan resulting from any:
    (i) Change in law or regulation;
    (ii) Guidance or feedback from the Board and the Corporation; or
    (iii) Material change described pursuant to paragraph (b)(2) of 
this section; and
    (4) Any actions taken by the covered company since filing of the 
previous resolution plan to improve the effectiveness of the covered 
company's resolution plan or remediate or otherwise mitigate any 
material weaknesses or impediments to effective and timely execution of 
the resolution plan.
    (c) Strategic analysis. Each full resolution plan shall include a 
strategic analysis describing the covered company's plan for rapid and 
orderly resolution in the event of material financial distress or 
failure of the covered company. Such analysis shall:
    (1) Include detailed descriptions of the:
    (i) Key assumptions and supporting analysis underlying the covered 
company's resolution plan, including any assumptions made concerning 
the economic or financial conditions that would be present at the time 
the covered company sought to implement such plan;
    (ii) Range of specific actions to be taken by the covered company 
to facilitate a rapid and orderly resolution of the covered company, 
its material entities, and its identified critical operations and core 
business lines in the event of material financial distress or failure 
of the covered company;
    (iii) Funding, liquidity and capital needs of, and resources 
available to, the covered company and its material entities, which 
shall be mapped to its identified critical operations and core business 
lines, in the ordinary course of business and in the event of material 
financial distress at or failure of the covered company;
    (iv) Covered company's strategy for maintaining operations of, and 
funding for, the covered company and its material entities, which shall 
be mapped to its identified critical operations and core business 
lines;
    (v) Covered company's strategy in the event of a failure or 
discontinuation of a material entity, core business line or identified 
critical operation, and the actions that will be taken by the covered 
company to prevent or mitigate any adverse effects of such failure or 
discontinuation on the financial stability of the United States; 
provided, however, if any such material entity is subject to an 
insolvency regime other than the Bankruptcy Code, a covered company may 
exclude that entity from its strategic analysis unless that entity 
either has $50 billion or more in total assets or conducts an 
identified critical operation; and
    (vi) Covered company's strategy for ensuring that any insured 
depository institution subsidiary of the covered company will be 
adequately protected from risks arising from the activities of any 
nonbank subsidiaries of the covered company (other than those that are 
subsidiaries of an insured depository institution);
    (2) Identify the time period(s) the covered company expects would 
be needed for the covered company to successfully execute each material 
aspect and step of the covered company's plan;
    (3) Identify and describe any potential material weaknesses or 
impediments to effective and timely execution of the covered company's 
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    (4) Discuss the actions and steps the covered company has taken or 
proposes to take to remediate or otherwise mitigate the weaknesses or 
impediments identified by the covered company, including a timeline for 
the remedial or other mitigatory action; and
    (5) Provide a detailed description of the processes the covered 
company employs for:
    (i) Determining the current market values and marketability of the 
core business lines, identified critical operations, and material asset 
holdings of the covered company;
    (ii) Assessing the feasibility of the covered company's plans 
(including timeframes) for executing any sales, divestitures, 
restructurings, recapitalizations, or other similar actions 
contemplated in the covered company's resolution plan; and
    (iii) Assessing the impact of any sales, divestitures, 
restructurings, recapitalizations, or other similar actions on the 
value, funding, and operations of the covered company, its material 
entities, identified critical operations and core business lines.
    (d) Corporate governance relating to resolution planning. Each full 
resolution plan shall:
    (1) Include a detailed description of:
    (i) How resolution planning is integrated into the corporate 
governance structure and processes of the covered company;
    (ii) The covered company's policies, procedures, and internal 
controls governing preparation and approval of the covered company's 
resolution plan;
    (iii) The identity and position of the senior management 
official(s) of the covered company that is primarily responsible for 
overseeing the development, maintenance, implementation, and filing of 
the covered company's resolution plan and for the covered company's 
compliance with this part; and
    (iv) The nature, extent, and frequency of reporting to senior 
executive officers and the board of directors of the covered company 
regarding the development, maintenance, and implementation of the 
covered company's resolution plan;
    (2) Describe the nature, extent, and results of any contingency 
planning or similar exercise conducted by the covered company since the 
date of the covered company's most recently filed resolution plan to 
assess the viability of or improve the resolution plan of the covered 
company; and
    (3) Identify and describe the relevant risk measures used by the 
covered company to report credit risk exposures both internally to its 
senior management and board of directors, as well as any relevant risk 
measures reported externally to investors or to the covered company's 
appropriate Federal regulator.
    (e) Organizational structure and related information. Each full 
resolution plan shall:
    (1) Provide a detailed description of the covered company's 
organizational structure, including:
    (i) A hierarchical list of all material entities within the covered 
company's organization (including legal entities that directly or 
indirectly hold such material entities) that:
    (A) Identifies the direct holder and the percentage of voting and 
nonvoting equity of each legal entity and foreign office listed; and
    (B) The location, jurisdiction of incorporation, licensing, and key 
management associated with each material legal entity and foreign 
office identified;
    (ii) A mapping of the covered company's identified critical 
operations and core business lines, including material asset holdings 
and liabilities related to such identified critical operations and core 
business lines, to material entities;
    (2) Provide an unconsolidated balance sheet for the covered company 
and a consolidating schedule for all material entities that are subject 
to consolidation by the covered company;
    (3) Include a description of the material components of the 
liabilities of the covered company, its material entities, identified 
critical operations and core business lines that, at a minimum, 
separately identifies types and amounts of the short-term and long-term 
liabilities, the secured and unsecured liabilities, and subordinated 
liabilities;
    (4) Identify and describe the processes used by the covered company 
to:
    (i) Determine to whom the covered company has pledged collateral;
    (ii) Identify the person or entity that holds such collateral; and
    (iii) Identify the jurisdiction in which the collateral is located, 
and, if different, the jurisdiction in which the security interest in 
the collateral is enforceable against the covered company;
    (5) Describe any material off-balance sheet exposures (including 
guarantees and contractual obligations) of the covered company and its 
material entities, including a mapping to its identified critical 
operations and core business lines;
    (6) Describe the practices of the covered company, its material 
entities and its core business lines related to the booking of trading 
and derivatives activities;
    (7) Identify material hedges of the covered company, its material 
entities, and its core business lines related to trading and derivative 
activities, including a mapping to legal entity;
    (8) Describe the hedging strategies of the covered company;
    (9) Describe the process undertaken by the covered company to 
establish exposure limits;
    (10) Identify the major counterparties of the covered company and 
describe the interconnections, interdependencies and relationships with 
such major counterparties;
    (11) Analyze whether the failure of each major counterparty would 
likely have an adverse impact on or result in the material financial 
distress or failure of the covered company; and
    (12) Identify each trading, payment, clearing, or settlement system 
of which the covered company, directly or indirectly, is a member and 
on which the covered company conducts a material number or value amount 
of trades or transactions. Map membership in each such system to the 
covered company's material entities, identified critical operations and 
core business lines.
    (f) Management information systems. (1) Each full resolution plan 
shall include:
    (i) A detailed inventory and description of the key management 
information systems and applications, including systems and 
applications for risk management, accounting, and financial and 
regulatory reporting, used by the covered company and its material 
entities. The description of each system or application provided shall 
identify the legal owner or licensor, the use or function of the system 
or application, service level agreements related thereto, any software 
and system licenses, and any intellectual property associated 
therewith;
    (ii) A mapping of the key management information systems and 
applications to the material entities, identified critical operations 
and core business lines of the covered company that use or rely on such 
systems and applications;
    (iii) An identification of the scope, content, and frequency of the 
key internal reports that senior management of the covered company, its 
material entities, identified critical operations and core business 
lines use to monitor the financial health, risks, and operation of the 
covered company, its material entities, identified critical operations 
and core business lines;
    (iv) A description of the process for the appropriate supervisory 
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applications identified in paragraph (f) of this section; and
    (v) A description and analysis of:
    (A) The capabilities of the covered company's management 
information systems to collect, maintain, and report, in a timely 
manner to management of the covered company, and to the Board, the 
information and data underlying the resolution plan; and
    (B) Any gaps or weaknesses in such capabilities, and a description 
of the actions the covered company intends to take to promptly address 
such gaps, or weaknesses, and the time frame for implementing such 
actions.
    (2) The Board will use its examination authority to review the 
demonstrated capabilities of each covered company to satisfy the 
requirements of paragraph (f)(1)(v) of this section. The Board will 
share with the Corporation information regarding the capabilities of 
the covered company to collect, maintain, and report in a timely manner 
information and data underlying the resolution plan.
    (g) Interconnections and interdependencies. To the extent not 
provided elsewhere in this part, each full resolution plan shall 
identify and map to the material entities the interconnections and 
interdependencies among the covered company and its material entities, 
and among the identified critical operations and core business lines of 
the covered company that, if disrupted, would materially affect the 
funding or operations of the covered company, its material entities, or 
its identified critical operations or core business lines. Such 
interconnections and interdependencies may include:
    (1) Common or shared personnel, facilities, or systems (including 
information technology platforms, management information systems, risk 
management systems, and accounting and recordkeeping systems);
    (2) Capital, funding, or liquidity arrangements;
    (3) Existing or contingent credit exposures;
    (4) Cross-guarantee arrangements, cross-collateral arrangements, 
cross-default provisions, and cross-affiliate netting agreements;
    (5) Risk transfers; and
    (6) Service level agreements.
    (h) Supervisory and regulatory information. Each full resolution 
plan shall:
    (1) Identify any:
    (i) Federal, state, or foreign agency or authority (other than a 
Federal banking agency) with supervisory authority or responsibility 
for ensuring the safety and soundness of the covered company, its 
material entities, identified critical operations and core business 
lines; and
    (ii) Other Federal, state, or foreign agency or authority (other 
than a Federal banking agency) with significant supervisory or 
regulatory authority over the covered company, and its material 
entities and identified critical operations and core business lines.
    (2) Identify any foreign agency or authority responsible for 
resolving a foreign-based material entity and identified critical 
operations or core business lines of the covered company; and
    (3) Include contact information for each agency identified in 
paragraphs (h)(1) and (2) of this section.


Sec.  __.6  Informational content of a targeted resolution plan.

    (a) In general. A targeted resolution plan is a subset of a full 
resolution plan and shall include core elements of a full resolution 
plan and information concerning key areas of focus as set forth in this 
section.
    (b) Targeted resolution plan content. Each targeted resolution plan 
of a covered company shall include:
    (1) The core elements;
    (2) Such targeted information as the Board and Corporation may 
jointly identify pursuant to paragraph (c) of this section;
    (3) A description of each material change experienced by the 
covered company since the filing of the covered company's previously 
submitted resolution plan (or affirmation that no such material change 
has occurred); and
    (4) A description of changes to the covered company's previously 
submitted resolution plan resulting from any;
    (i) Change in law or regulation;
    (ii) Guidance or feedback from the Board and the Corporation; or
    (iii) Material change described pursuant to paragraph (b)(3) of 
this section.
    (c) Targeted information requests. No less than 12 months before 
the date by which a covered company is required to submit a targeted 
resolution plan, the Board and Corporation may jointly identify in 
writing resolution-related key areas of focus, questions, and issues 
that must also be addressed in the covered company's targeted 
resolution plan.
    (d) Deemed incorporation by reference. If a covered company does 
not include in its targeted resolution plan a description of changes to 
any information set forth in section 165(d)(1)(A), (B), or (C) of the 
Dodd-Frank Act (12 U.S.C. 5365(d)(1)(A), (B), or (C)) since its 
previously submitted resolution plan, such information from its 
previously submitted resolution plan are incorporated by reference into 
its targeted resolution plan.


Sec.  __.7  Informational content of a reduced resolution plan.

    (a) Reduced resolution plan content. Each reduced resolution plan 
of a covered company shall include:
    (1) A description of each material change experienced by the 
covered company since the filing of the covered company's previously 
submitted resolution plan (or affirmation that no such material change 
has occurred); and
    (2) A description of changes to the strategic analysis that was 
presented in the covered company's previously submitted resolution plan 
resulting from any:
    (i) Change in law or regulation;
    (ii) Guidance or feedback from the Board and the Corporation; or
    (iii) Material change described pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of 
this section.
    (b) Deemed incorporation by reference. If a covered company does 
not include in its reduced resolution plan a description of changes to 
any information set forth in section 165(d)(1)(A), (B), or (C) of the 
Dodd-Frank Act (12 U.S.C. 5365(d)(1)(A), (B), or (C)) since its 
previously submitted resolution plan, such information from its 
previously submitted resolution plan are incorporated by reference into 
its reduced resolution plan.


Sec.  __.8   Review of resolution plans; resubmission of deficient 
resolution plans.

    (a) Review of resolution plans. The Board and Corporation will seek 
to coordinate their activities concerning the review of resolution 
plans, including planning for, reviewing, and assessing the resolution 
plans, as well as such activities that occur during the periods between 
resolution plan submissions.
    (b) Joint determination regarding deficient resolution plans. If 
the Board and Corporation jointly determine that the resolution plan of 
a covered company submitted under Sec.  __.4 is not credible or would 
not facilitate an orderly resolution of the covered company under the 
Bankruptcy Code, the Board and Corporation shall jointly notify the 
covered company in writing of such determination. Any joint notice 
provided under this paragraph (b) shall be provided pursuant to 
paragraph (f) of this section and shall identify the deficiencies 
identified by the Board and Corporation in the resolution plan. A 
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Board and Corporation jointly determine presents a weakness that 
individually or in conjunction with other aspects could undermine the 
feasibility of the covered company's resolution plan.
    (c) Resubmission of a resolution plan. Within 90 days of receiving 
a notice of deficiencies issued pursuant to paragraph (b) of this 
section, or such shorter or longer period as the Board and Corporation 
may jointly determine, a covered company shall submit a revised 
resolution plan to the Board and Corporation that addresses the 
deficiencies jointly identified by the Board and Corporation, and that 
discusses in detail:
    (1) The revisions made by the covered company to address the 
deficiencies jointly identified by the Board and the Corporation;
    (2) Any changes to the covered company's business operations and 
corporate structure that the covered company proposes to undertake to 
facilitate implementation of the revised resolution plan (including a 
timeline for the execution of such planned changes); and
    (3) Why the covered company believes that the revised resolution 
plan is credible and would result in an orderly resolution of the 
covered company under the Bankruptcy Code.
    (d) Extensions of time. Upon their own initiative or a written 
request by a covered company, the Board and Corporation may jointly 
extend any time period under this section. Each extension request shall 
be supported by a written statement of the covered company describing 
the basis and justification for the request.
    (e) Joint determination regarding shortcomings in resolution plans. 
The Board and Corporation may also jointly identify one or more 
shortcomings in a covered company's resolution plan. A shortcoming is a 
weakness or gap that raises questions about the feasibility of a 
covered company's resolution plan, but does not rise to the level of a 
deficiency for both the Board and Corporation. If a shortcoming is not 
satisfactorily explained or addressed before or in the submission of 
the covered company's next resolution plan, it may be found to be a 
deficiency in the covered company's next resolution plan. The Board and 
the Corporation may identify an aspect of a covered company's 
resolution plan as a deficiency even if such aspect was not identified 
as a shortcoming in an earlier resolution plan submission.
    (f) Feedback. Following their review of a resolution plan, the 
Board and the Corporation will jointly send a notification to each 
covered company that identifies any deficiencies or shortcomings in the 
covered company's resolution plan (or confirms that no deficiencies or 
shortcomings were identified) and provides any feedback on the 
resolution plan. The Board and the Corporation will jointly send the 
notification no later than 12 months after the later of the date on 
which the covered company submitted the resolution plan and the date by 
which the covered company was required to submit the resolution plan, 
unless the Board and the Corporation jointly determine in their 
discretion that extenuating circumstances exist that require delay.


Sec.  __.9  Failure to cure deficiencies on resubmission of a 
resolution plan.

    (a) In general. The Board and Corporation may jointly determine 
that a covered company or any subsidiary of a covered company shall be 
subject to more stringent capital, leverage, or liquidity requirements, 
or restrictions on the growth, activities, or operations of the covered 
company or the subsidiary if:
    (1) The covered company fails to submit a revised resolution plan 
under Sec.  __.8(c) within the required time period; or
    (2) The Board and the Corporation jointly determine that a revised 
resolution plan submitted under Sec.  __.8(c) does not adequately 
remedy the deficiencies jointly identified by the Board and the 
Corporation under Sec.  __.8(b).
    (b) Duration of requirements or restrictions. Any requirements or 
restrictions imposed on a covered company or a subsidiary thereof 
pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section shall cease to apply to the 
covered company or subsidiary, respectively, on the date that the Board 
and the Corporation jointly determine the covered company has submitted 
a revised resolution plan that adequately remedies the deficiencies 
jointly identified by the Board and the Corporation under Sec.  
__.8(b).
    (c) Divestiture. The Board and Corporation, in consultation with 
the Council, may jointly, by order, direct the covered company to 
divest such assets or operations as are jointly identified by the Board 
and Corporation if:
    (1) The Board and Corporation have jointly determined that the 
covered company or a subsidiary thereof shall be subject to 
requirements or restrictions pursuant to paragraph (a) of this section; 
and
    (2) The covered company has failed, within the 2-year period 
beginning on the date on which the determination to impose such 
requirements or restrictions under paragraph (a) of this section was 
made, to submit a revised resolution plan that adequately remedies the 
deficiencies jointly identified by the Board and the Corporation under 
Sec.  __.8(b); and
    (3) The Board and Corporation jointly determine that the 
divestiture of such assets or operations is necessary to facilitate an 
orderly resolution of the covered company under the Bankruptcy Code in 
the event the company was to fail.


Sec.  __.10  Consultation.

    Before issuing any notice of deficiencies under Sec.  __.8(b), 
determining to impose requirements or restrictions under Sec.  __.9(a), 
or issuing a divestiture order pursuant to Sec.  __.9(c) with respect 
to a covered company that is likely to have a significant impact on a 
functionally regulated subsidiary or a depository institution 
subsidiary of the covered company, the Board--
    (a) Shall consult with each Council member that primarily 
supervises any such subsidiary; and
    (b) May consult with any other Federal, state, or foreign 
supervisor as the Board considers appropriate.


Sec.  __.11   No limiting effect or private right of action; 
confidentiality of resolution plans.

    (a) No limiting effect on bankruptcy or other resolution 
proceedings. A resolution plan submitted pursuant to this part shall 
not have any binding effect on:
    (1) A court or trustee in a proceeding commenced under the 
Bankruptcy Code;
    (2) A receiver appointed under title II of the Dodd-Frank Act (12 
U.S.C. 5381 et seq.);
    (3) A bridge financial company chartered pursuant to 12 U.S.C. 
5390(h); or
    (4) Any other authority that is authorized or required to resolve a 
covered company (including any subsidiary or affiliate thereof) under 
any other provision of Federal, state, or foreign law.
    (b) No private right of action. Nothing in this part creates or is 
intended to create a private right of action based on a resolution plan 
prepared or submitted under this part or based on any action taken by 
the Board or the Corporation with respect to any resolution plan 
submitted under this part.
    (c) Form of resolution plans--(1) Generally. Each full, targeted, 
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reduced resolution plan of a covered company shall be divided into a 
public section and a confidential section. Each covered company shall 
segregate and separately identify the public section from the 
confidential section.
    (2) Public section of full and targeted resolution plans. The 
public section of a full or targeted resolution plan shall consist of 
an executive summary of the resolution plan that describes the business 
of the covered company and includes, to the extent material to an 
understanding of the covered company:
    (i) The names of material entities;
    (ii) A description of core business lines;
    (iii) Consolidated or segment financial information regarding 
assets, liabilities, capital and major funding sources;
    (iv) A description of derivative activities and hedging activities;
    (v) A list of memberships in material payment, clearing and 
settlement systems;
    (vi) A description of foreign operations;
    (vii) The identities of material supervisory authorities;
    (viii) The identities of the principal officers;
    (ix) A description of the corporate governance structure and 
processes related to resolution planning;
    (x) A description of material management information systems; and
    (xi) A description, at a high level, of the covered company's 
resolution strategy, covering such items as the range of potential 
purchasers of the covered company, its material entities, and its core 
business lines.
    (3) Public section of reduced resolution plans. The public section 
of a reduced resolution plan shall consist of an executive summary of 
the resolution plan that describes the business of the covered company 
and includes, to the extent material to an understanding of the covered 
company:
    (i) The names of material entities;
    (ii) A description of core business lines;
    (iii) The identities of the principal officers; and
    (iv) A description, at a high level, of the covered company's 
resolution strategy, referencing the applicable resolution regimes for 
its material entities.
    (d) Confidential treatment of resolution plans. (1) The 
confidentiality of resolution plans and related materials shall be 
determined in accordance with applicable exemptions under the Freedom 
of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552(b)), 12 CFR part 261 (the Board's 
Rules Regarding Availability of Information), and 12 CFR part 309 (the 
Corporation's Disclosure of Information rules).
    (2) Any covered company submitting a resolution plan or related 
materials pursuant to this part that desires confidential treatment of 
the information under 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4), 12 CFR part 261 (the Board's 
Rules Regarding Availability of Information), and 12 CFR part 309 (the 
Corporation's Disclosure of Information rules) may file a request for 
confidential treatment in accordance with those rules.
    (3) To the extent permitted by law, information comprising the 
Confidential Section of a resolution plan will be treated as 
confidential.
    (4) To the extent permitted by law, the submission of any nonpublic 
data or information under this part shall not constitute a waiver of, 
or otherwise affect, any privilege arising under Federal or state law 
(including the rules of any Federal or state court) to which the data 
or information is otherwise subject. Privileges that apply to 
resolution plans and related materials are protected pursuant to 
section 18(x) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1828(x)).


Sec.  __.12  Enforcement.

    The Board and Corporation may jointly enforce an order jointly 
issued by the Board and Corporation under Sec.  __.9(a) or (c). The 
Board, in consultation with the Corporation, may take any action to 
address any violation of this part by a covered company under section 8 
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. 1818).
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List of Subjects

12 CFR Part 243

    Administrative practice and procedure, Banks, Banking, Holding 
companies, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Securities.

12 CFR Part 381

    Administrative practice and procedure, Banks, Banking, Holding 
companies, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Resolution plans.

Adoption of the Common Rule Text

    The adoption of the common rules by the agencies, as modified by 
agency-specific text, is set forth below:

BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

12 CFR Chapter II

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Board of Governors 
of the Federal Reserve System revises part 243 to 12 CFR chapter II as 
set forth in the text of the common rule at the end of the preamble and 
further amends 12 CFR part 243 as follows:

PART 243--RESOLUTION PLANS (REGULATION QQ)

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1. The authority citation for part 243 continues to read as follows:

    Authority: 12 U.S.C. 5365.


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2. The heading of part 243 is revised to read as set forth above.

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3. In Sec.  243.1, amend paragraph (a) by adding a sentence at the end 
to read as follows:


Sec.  243.1   Authority and scope.

    (a) * * * The Board is also issuing this part pursuant to section 
165(a)(2)(C) of the Dodd-Frank Act.
* * * * *

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4. Add Sec.  243.13 to read as follows:


Sec.  243.13  Additional covered companies.

    An additional covered company is any bank holding company or any 
foreign bank or company that is a bank holding company or is treated as 
a bank holding company under section 8(a) of the International Banking 
Act of 1978 (12 U.S.C. 3106(a)) that is:
    (a) Identified as a category II banking organization pursuant to 
Sec.  252.5 of this title;
    (b) Identified as a category III banking organization pursuant to 
Sec.  252.5 of this title; or
    (c) Made subject to this part by order of the Board.

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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

12 CFR Chapter III

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Federal Deposit 
Insurance Corporation revises part 381 to 12 CFR chapter III as set 
forth in the text of the common rule at the end of the preamble and 
further amends 12 part 381 as follows:

PART 381--RESOLUTION PLANS

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5. The authority citation for part 381 continues to read as follows:

    Authority:  12 U.S.C.5365(d).


Sec.  381.2  [Amended]

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6. In Sec.  381.2, in paragraph (1)(v) of the definition of ``covered 
company'', add the words ``of this title'' after the phrase ``pursuant 
to Sec.  243.13''.

    By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve 
System, October 23, 2019.
Margaret McCloskey Shanks,
Deputy Secretary of the Board.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

    By order of the Board of Directors.

    Dated at Washington, DC, on October 15, 2019.
Annmarie H. Boyd,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-23967 Filed 10-31-19; 8:45 am]
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