Title 12Banks and BankingRelease 119-73

§334 Reports from affiliates; penalty for failure to furnish

Title 12 › Chapter CHAPTER 3— - FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VIII— - STATE BANKS AS MEMBERS OF SYSTEM › § 334

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each bank that joins must get at least three reports each year from every affiliate that is not a member bank. The bank must send those reports to its Federal Reserve Bank and to the Board of Governors. The Board decides the report form and the dates. Each report must be signed under oath by the affiliate’s president or another officer chosen by the affiliate’s board. The reports must use the same dates as the bank’s condition reports and are normally sent at the same time, unless the Board allows more time for good cause. The reports must show the relationship between the affiliate and the bank and how that relationship affects the bank. The bank must publish the affiliate reports under the same rules as its own reports. The Federal Reserve or the Board can require extra reports if needed. If a bank fails to get or send the required reports, it must pay $100 for each day the failure continues. The Federal Reserve Bank can collect that money, including by suing, if the Board directs.

Full Legal Text

Title 12, §334

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Each bank admitted to membership under this subchapter shall obtain from each of its affiliates other than member banks and furnish to the Federal reserve bank of its district and to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System not less than three reports during each year. Such reports shall be in such form as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may prescribe, shall be verified by the oath or affirmation of the president or such other officer as may be designated by the board of directors of such affiliate to verify such reports, and shall disclose the information hereinafter provided for as of dates identical with those fixed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for reports of the condition of the affiliated member bank. Each such report of an affiliate shall be transmitted as herein provided at the same time as the corresponding report of the affiliated member bank, except that the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may, in its discretion, extend such time for good cause shown. Each such report shall contain such information as in the judgment of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall be necessary to disclose fully the relations between such affiliate and such bank and to enable the board to inform itself as to the effect of such relations upon the affairs of such bank. The reports of such affiliates shall be published by the bank under the same conditions as govern its own condition reports. Any such affiliated member bank may be required to obtain from any such affiliate such additional reports as in the opinion of its Federal reserve bank or the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may be necessary in order to obtain a full and complete knowledge of the condition of the affiliated member bank. Such additional reports shall be transmitted to the Federal reserve bank and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and shall be in such form as the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System may prescribe. Any such affiliated member bank which fails to obtain from any of its affiliates and furnish any report provided for by the two preceding paragraphs of this section shall be subject to a penalty of $100 for each day during which such failure continues, which, by direction of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, may be collected, by suit or otherwise, by the Federal reserve bank of the district in which such member bank is located.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this section”, meaning section 9 of act Dec. 23, 1913, which is classified generally to this subchapter (§ 321 et seq.). Codification Section is comprised of the seventeenth to nineteenth pars. of act Dec. 23, 1913, as amended. These pars. constituted pars. fifteen to seventeen of section 9 in 1933 (48 Stat. 165), became pars. sixteen to eighteen in 1935 (49 Stat. 704), and became pars. seventeen to nineteen in 1950 (64 Stat. 458). For further details, see Codification notes set out under section 321 and 329a of this title.

Amendments

1966—Pub. L. 89–485 struck out last sentence of third par. stating that term “affiliate” shall include holding company affiliates as well as other affiliates for the purposes of such par. and preceding two pars.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

section 203(a) of act Aug. 23, 1935, changed name of Federal Reserve Board to Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Citation

12 U.S.C. § 334

Title 12Banks and Banking

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73