1. Covers the following types of institutions in the fifty states and the District of Columbia: domestically chartered commercial banks that submit a weekly report of condition (large domestically chartered); other domestically chartered commercial banks (small domestically chartered); branches and agencies of foreign banks, and Edge Act and Agreement corporations (foreign-related institutions). Excludes International Banking Facilities. Data are Wednesday values or pro rata averages of Wednesday values. Large domestically chartered banks constitute a universe; data for small domestically chartered banks and foreign-related institutions are estimates based on weekly samples and on quarter-end condition reports. Data are adjusted for breaks caused by reclassifications of assets and liabilities. The data for large and small domestically chartered banks, presented on pages 5 to 10, are adjusted to remove the estimated effects of mergers between these two groups. The adjustment for mergers changes past levels to make them comparable with current levels. Estimated quantities of balance sheet items acquired in mergers are removed from past data for the bank group that contained the acquired bank and put into past data for the group containing the acquiring bank. Balance sheet data for acquired banks are obtained from call reports, and a ratio procedure is used to adjust past levels.

2. Treasury securities are liabilities of the U.S. Treasury. Agency securities are liabilities of U.S. government agencies and U.S. government-sponsored enterprises.

3. Includes other trading assets.

4. Excludes unearned income. Includes the allowance for loan and lease losses. Excludes federal funds sold to, reverse RPs with, and loans made to commercial banks in the United States, all of which are included in line 18.

5. Data for small domestically chartered banks are estimates based largely on quarter-end condition reports. Security loans for these banks are included in other loans and leases (line 17) on pages 9 and 10.

6. Lines 15, 17, and 19 include fed funds by counterparty. Small domestically chartered banks report only the total, which is distributed as 85 percent with banks (line 19), 10 percent with brokers (line 15), and 5 percent with others (line 17). Before July 4, 2007, foreign-related institutions reported the sum of fed funds and RPs with brokers and others, distributed as 80 percent with brokers (line 15) and 20 percent with others (line 17).

7. Includes vault cash, cash items in process of collection, balances due from depository institutions, and balances due from Federal Reserve Banks.

8. Excludes the due-from position with related foreign offices, which is included in line 32.

9. Excludes the allowance for loan and lease losses and the allocated transfer risk reserve.

10. This balancing item is not intended as a measure of equity capital for use in capital adequacy analysis. On a seasonally adjusted basis this item reflects any differences in the seasonal patterns estimated for total assets and total liabilities.

11. Fair value of derivative contracts (interest rate, foreign exchange rate, other commodity and equity contracts) in a gain/loss position, as determined under FASB Interpretation 39.

12. Includes mortgage-backed securities issued by U.S. government agencies, U.S. government-sponsored enterprises, and private entities.

13. Difference between fair value and historical cost for securities classified as available-for-sale under FASB Statement 115. Data have been adjusted to include an estimate of tax effects, omitted from the reported data.

14. Includes the outstanding principal balance of assets sold and securitized by commercial banks with servicing retained or with recourse or other seller-provided credit enhancements.

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