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Inactive Financial Institution Letters

Capital Standards
Supervisory Guidance on the Eligibility of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Liquidity Facilities and the Resulting Risk-Based Capital Treatment
FIL-74-2005
August 4, 2005


Summary: The FDIC, along with the other federal banking and thrift regulatory agencies, has issued the attached supervisory guidance clarifying the application of the asset quality test for liquidity facilities that provide support to an asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) program.

Highlights:
  • Supplements the "Final Rule on Capital Requirements for Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Programs" issued on July 28, 2004 (see FIL-87-2004).
  • Provides clarification on the application of the asset quality test for determining the eligibility or ineligibility of an ABCP liquidity facility and the resulting risk-based capital treatment for banks that provide liquidity facilities.
  • Provides the agencies' determination of the forms of credit enhancements that are acceptable for mitigating credit risk that would otherwise be assumed by a liquidity facility for purposes of satisfying the asset quality test.
  • Allows banks that meet the criteria set forth in the final rule or in this guidance to continue to apply a credit conversion factor of 10 percent for short-term liquidity facilities and 50 percent for long-term liquidity facilities. Banks that fail to meet either the criteria set forth in the final rule or in this guidance will be required to apply a 100 percent credit conversion factor on the liquidity facility starting with the reporting period ending September 30, 2005.
  • Generally applies to large banks that provide liquidity facilities to ABCP programs.

Distribution:
FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and Savings)

Suggested Routing:
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Accounting Officer

Related Topics:
ABCP Programs
Liquidity Facilities
Credit Enhancements
Risk-Based Capital Rules – Part 325

Attachment:
Interagency Guidance on the Eligibility of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Liquidity Facilities and the Resulting Risk-Based Capital Treatment

Interagency Guidance on the Eligibility of Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Liquidity Facilities and the Resulting Risk-Based Capital Treatment - PDF 28k (PDF Help)

Contact:
Jason C. Cave, Chief, Capital Markets Policy Section, at jcave@fdic.gov or (202) 898-3548.

Bobby R. Bean, Senior Quantitative Risk Analyst, at bbean@fdic.gov or (202) 898-3575.

Note:
FDIC Financial Institution Letters (FILs) may be accessed from the FDIC's Web site at www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2005/index.html.

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Paper copies of FDIC FILs may be obtained through the FDIC's Public Information Center, 801 17th Street, NW, Room 100, Washington, DC 20434 (1-877-275-3342 or (703) 562-2200).


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