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| Federal Reserve Regulatory Service |
| From this link you may subscribe, for a fee, to the Federal Reserve Regulatory Service. It contains all Board regulations plus related statutes, interpretations, policy statements, rulings, and staff opinions. |
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| Federal Reserve Commercial Bank Examination Manual |
| This manual guides Federal Reserve safety and soundness examiners in their examinations of state member banks. It organizes and formalizes longstanding examination objectives and procedures. |
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| Federal Reserve Bank Holding Company Supervision Manual |
| Provides guidance for conducting inspections of bank holding companies and their nonbank subsidiaries. The supervisory objectives of the inspection program are to ascertain whether the financial strength of the bank holding company is being maintained on an ongoing basis and to determine the effects or consequences of transactions between a holding company or its nonbanking subsidiaries and its subsidiary banks. |
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| Federal Reserve Consumer Compliance Handbook |
| This handbook guides Federal Reserve examiners in their consumer compliance and CRA examinations of state member banks. It contains examination objectives and procedures. |
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| FFIEC Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/AML) Examination Manual |
| Provides guidance to examiners for carrying out BSA/AML and Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) examinations. Also provides guidance to the banking industry on identifying and controlling risks associated with money laundering and terrorist financing. The manual contains an overview of BSA/AML compliance program requirements, BSA/AML risks and risk management expectations, industry sound practices, and examination procedures. |
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| Federal Reserve Trading and Capital-Markets Activities Manual |
| Provides guidance on trading operations and related capital-markets banking activities. Details sound management practices and key examination and review considerations for trading and capital-markets activities. Includes discussions of a wide range of risk management issues encountered in trading and dealer operations, including market risk, counterparty credit risk, legal risk, financial reporting, accounting, and ethics. Profiles 35 specific financial instruments commonly encountered in trading and capital-markets-related activities. |
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| Basics for Bank Directors |
| This book from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is a practical guide for bank directors to help them be more effective in their bank oversight. |
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| Banking Regulation: Its Purposes, Implementation, and Effects |
| This publication by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City is a basic guide and reference source on banking and bank regulation that will be of interest to the general public, bankers, and banking supervisors. In addition to providing a source of information on our bank supervisory process, this book attempts to show the challenges that bankers and regulators face in maintaining a sound and innovative financial system. |
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| Director's Primer: A Guide to Management Oversight and Bank Regulation |
| This book from the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta provides information on banking as a business, sets out the roles of the director and bank supervisors, and summarizes key regulations. |
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| Federal Reserve regulations online |
| This link takes you to the Board of Governors website that contains the various Federal Reserve regulations A through GG, along with recent amendments and staff commentary. |
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| Federal Reserve Consumer Affairs (CA) Letters |
| CA letters address significant policy and procedural matters related to the Federal Reserve System’s consumer compliance supervisory responsibilities. The letters are sent to banking supervision staff at the Board and the Reserve Banks and, in some instances, to supervised banking organizations. |
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| Federal Reserve Supervision & Regulation (SR) Letters |
| SR letters address significant policy and procedural matters related to the Federal Reserve System's supervisory responsibilities. |
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