[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 244 (Thursday, December 19, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69744-69745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-27414]


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FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM

[Docket No. OP-1691]


Regulation Q; Regulatory Capital Rules: Risk-Based Capital 
Surcharges for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies

AGENCY: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Board is providing notice of the 2019 aggregate global 
indicator amounts, as required under the Board's rule regarding risk-
based capital surcharges for global systemically important bank holding 
companies (GSIB surcharge rule).

DATES: 2019 aggregate global indicator amounts effective: December 19, 
2019.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juan Climent, Manager, (202) 872-7526, 
Sean Healey, Lead Financial Institution Policy Analyst, (202) 912-4611, 
or Christopher Appel, Senior Financial Institution Policy Analyst II, 
(202) 973-6862, Division of Supervision and Regulation or Mark Buresh, 
Senior Counsel, (202) 452-5270, or Mary Watkins, Senior Attorney, (202) 
452-

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3722, Legal Division. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 
20th and C Streets NW, Washington, DC 20551. For the hearing impaired 
only, Telecommunications Device for the Deaf (TDD) users may contact 
(202) 263-4869.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Board's GSIB surcharge rule establishes 
a methodology to identify global systemically important bank holding 
companies in the United States (GSIBs) based on indicators that are 
correlated with systemic importance.\1\ Under the GSIB surcharge rule, 
a firm must calculate its GSIB score using a specific formula (Method 
1). Method 1 uses five equally weighted categories that are correlated 
with systemic importance--size, interconnectedness, cross-
jurisdictional activity, substitutability, and complexity--and 
subdivided into twelve systemic indicators. For each indicator, a firm 
divides its own measure of each systemic indicator by an aggregate 
global indicator amount. A firm's Method 1 score is the sum of its 
weighted systemic indicator scores expressed in basis points. The GSIB 
surcharge for a firm is the higher of the GSIB surcharge determined 
under Method 1 and a second method, Method 2, which weights size, 
interconnectedness, cross-jurisdictional activity, complexity, and a 
measure of a firm's reliance on wholesale funding (instead of 
substitutability).\2\
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    \1\ See 12 CFR 217.402, 217.404.
    \2\ Method 2 uses similar inputs to those used in Method 1, but 
replaces the substitutability category with a measure of a firm's 
use of short-term wholesale funding. In addition, Method 2 is 
calibrated differently from Method 1.
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    The aggregate global indicator amounts used in the score 
calculation under Method 1 are based on data collected by the Basel 
Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). The BCBS amounts are 
determined based on the sum of the systemic indicator scores of the 75 
largest U.S. and foreign banking organizations as measured by the BCBS, 
and any other banking organization that the BCBS includes in its sample 
total for that year. The BCBS publicly releases these values, 
denominated in euros, each year. Pursuant to the GSIB surcharge rule, 
the Board publishes the aggregate global indicator amounts each year as 
denominated in U.S. dollars using the euro-dollar exchange rate 
provided by the BCBS.\3\ Specifically, the Board multiplied each of the 
euro-denominated indicator amounts made publicly available by the BCBS 
by 1.1450, which was the daily euro to U.S. dollar spot rate on 
December 31, 2018, provided by the BCBS (as published by the European 
Central Bank, available at http://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/eurofxref/index.en.html).
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    \3\ 12 CFR 217.404(b)(1)(i)(B); 80 FR 49082, 49086-87 (August 
14, 2015). In addition, the Board maintains the GSIB Framework 
Denominators on its website, available at https://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/basel/denominators.htm.
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    The aggregate global indicator amounts for purposes of the 2019 
Method 1 score calculation under Sec.  217.404(b)(1)(i)(B) of the GSIB 
surcharge rule are:

                        Aggregate Global Indicator Amounts in U.S. Dollars (USD) for 2019
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                                                                                            Aggregate global
                   Category                               Systemic indicator              indicator amount (in
                                                                                                  USD)
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Size..........................................  Total exposures.......................        86,929,981,510,715
Interconnectedness............................  Intra-financial system assets.........         8,378,699,821,090
                                                Intra-financial system liabilities....         9,423,444,832,391
                                                Securities outstanding................        14,980,796,701,622
Substitutability..............................  Payments activity.....................     2,451,526,935,926,810
                                                Assets under custody..................       162,964,740,953,671
                                                Underwritten transactions in debt and          6,508,969,472,114
                                                 equity markets.
Complexity....................................  Notional amount of over-the-counter          606,648,652,426,571
                                                 (OTC) derivatives.
                                                Trading and available-for-sale (AFS)           3,572,783,522,209
                                                 securities.
                                                Level 3 assets........................           530,724,384,529
Cross-jurisdictional activity.................  Cross-jurisdictional claims...........        21,901,114,980,308
                                                Cross-jurisdictional liabilities......        18,341,219,019,191
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    Authority: 12 U.S.C. 248(a), 321-338a, 481-486, 1462a, 1467a, 
1818, 1828, 1831n, 1831o, 1831p-l, 1831w, 1835, 1844(b), 1851, 3904, 
3906-3909, 4808, 5365, 5368, 5371.

    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, December 16, 
2019.
Ann Misback,
Secretary of the Board.
[FR Doc. 2019-27414 Filed 12-18-19; 8:45 am]
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