Rules and Regulations. Notice
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Agency: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board)
Action: Notice
Citation: FR Doc. 2017-27161 · Docket No. R-1584
Summary
The Board is providing notice of the aggregate global indicator amounts for purposes of a calculation for 2017, which is required under the Board's rule regarding risk-based capital surcharges for global systemically important bank holding companies (GSIB surcharge rule).
Dates
Applicable: December 18, 2017.
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. The firm's Method 1 score is the sum of its weighted systemic indicator scores expressed in basis points. The GSIB surcharge for the firm is then the higher of the GSIB surcharge determined under Method 1 and a second method that weights size, interconnectedness, cross-jurisdictional activity, complexity, and a measure of a firm's reliance on wholesale funding (instead of substitutability). 2 1 See 12 CFR 217.402, 217.404. 2 The second method (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. 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 1.0541, which was the daily euro to U.S. dollar spot rate on December 30, 2016, as published by the European Central Bank (available at ). 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 . The aggregate global indicator amounts for purposes of the 2017 Method 1 score calculation under § 217.404(b)(1)(i)(B) of the GSIB surcharge rule are: Aggregate Global Indicator Amounts in U.S. Dollars (USD) for 2017 Category Systemic indicator Aggregate global indicator amount (in USD) Size Total exposures $80,007,062,645,840 Interconnectedness Intra-financial system assets 8,257,981,060,346 Intra-financial system liabilities 9,326,026,596,609 Securities outstanding 14,058,608,335,249 Substitutability Payments activity 2,273,665,800,113,670 Assets under custody 147,506,550,618,745 Underwritten transactions in debt and equity markets 6,323,673,403,888 Complexity Notional amount of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives 559,101,108,830,245 Trading and available-for-sale (AFS) securities 3,628,156,457,081 Level 3 assets 528,537,101,614 Cross-jurisdictional activity Cross-jurisdictional claims 19,688,183,709,288 Cross-jurisdictional liabilities 17,261,218,426,372 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. By order of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, acting through the Director of the Division of Supervision and Regulation under delegated authority. Ann E. Misback, Secretary of the Board. [FR Doc. 2017-27161 Filed 12-15-17; 8:45 am]