§1863 — Title 12 Banks and Banking | U.S. Code

Summary

Allows insured banks to invest in service companies that do only back‑office work for banks. Examples are check and deposit handling; calculating and posting interest, credits, or charges; preparing and mailing checks and statements; and similar clerical, bookkeeping, accounting, or statistical tasks.

Title 12, §1863

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Without regard to the provisions of section 1864 and 1865 of this title, an insured depository institution may invest in a bank service company that performs, and a bank service company may perform, the following services only for depository institutions: check and deposit sorting and posting, computation and posting of interest and other credits and charges, preparation and mailing of checks, statements, notices, and similar items, or any other clerical, bookkeeping, accounting, statistical, or similar functions performed for a depository institution.

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2006—Pub. L. 109–351 substituted “insured depository institution” for “insured bank”. 1996—Pub. L. 104–208 substituted “company” for “corporation” wherever appearing in section catchline and text. 1982—Pub. L. 97–320 substituted provisions relating to permissible bank service corporation activities for depository institutions for provisions that a bank service corporation must provide bank services to a bank that applied for them if the applying bank competed with a bank which held stock in the corporation unless comparable services were available elsewhere at competitive cost or furnishing the services would be beyond the practical capacity of the corporation.

§1863 Permissible bank service company activities for depository institutions

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Title 12, §1863

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