Title 12Banks and BankingRelease 119-73

§1862 Amount of investment in bank service company

Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 18— - BANK SERVICE COMPANIES › § 1862

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Insured depository institutions may invest in bank service companies. They can put up to 10% of their paid-in and unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus, and up to 5% of their total assets, into such companies; Federal savings associations are subject to a different limit.

Full Legal Text

Title 12, §1862

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Notwithstanding any limitation or prohibition otherwise imposed by any provision of law exclusively relating to banks or savings associations, other than the limitation on the amount of investment by a Federal savings association contained in section 1464(c)(4)(B) of this title, an insured depository institution may invest not more than 10 per centum of paid-in and unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus in a bank service company. No insured depository institution shall invest more than 5 per centum of its total assets in bank service companies.

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Amendments

2006—Pub. L. 109–351 inserted “or savings associations, other than the limitation on the amount of investment by a Federal savings association contained in section 1464(c)(4)(B) of this title” after “relating to banks” and substituted “insured depository institution” for “insured bank” in two places. 1996—Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “company” for “corporation” in section catchline and “company” and “companies” for “corporation” and “corporations”, respectively, in text. 1982—Pub. L. 97–320 substituted provisions relating to the maximum permissible amount of investment in a bank service corporation by an insured bank for provisions which read as follows: “(a) No limitation or prohibition otherwise imposed by any provision of Federal law exclusively relating to banks shall prevent any two or more banks from investing not more than 10 per centum of the paid-in and unimpaired capital and unimpaired surplus of each of them in a bank service corporation. “(b) If stock in a bank service corporation has been held by two banks, and one of such banks ceases to utilize the services of the corporation and ceases to hold stock in it, and leaves the other as the sole stockholding bank, the corporation may nevertheless continue to function as such and the other bank may continue to hold stock in it.”

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12 U.S.C. § 1862

Title 12Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73