Legal and Regulatory:
Guidance, Precedents, and Court Documents

This page contains links to relevant Law and Licensing documents providing guidance, establishing precedents and court documents of interest.

Interpretations And Actions is a month by month collection of legal staff interpretations including trust interpretive letters, securities letters, bank accounting advisory letters, letters imposing conditions enforceable under law and regulation, significant decisions on corporate applications, decision documents for applications that involve CRA-related issues, the monthly list of CRA evaluations becoming public, and the monthly list of publicly released final enforcement actions.

Significant Legal, Licensing, and Community Development Precedents. A PDF file for the most recent year's precedents regarding branching, consulting and financial advice, corporate governance, finder activities, leasing, lending, other general activities, compliance, fiduciary activities, preemption, derivatives, technology and electronic activities, electronic commerce, investments, enforcement actions, regulations and international precedents. Previous years' significant legal, licensing and community development precedents are incorporated into the most recent issue of Activities Permissible for a National Bank.

Activities Permissible for a National Bank, Cumulative A PDF file of the most recent published document covering all cumulative permissible national bank activities covering the areas of general activities, compliance, fiduciary activities, insurance and annuity activities, preemption, securities activities, technology and electronic activities, and investment activities.

Court Decisions Select here to view recent Court Decisions of interest.

OCC Briefs Select here to view OCC Briefs of interest.

Bulletins Inform bankers and examiners about OCC or OCC-supported policies and guidelines, and about pending regulatory changes and other general information.

Advisory Letters Advise bankers and bank directors about activities and situations that could contribute to or detract from the safe and sound management of their banks.

Licensing Guidance All of the OCC's guidance for the licensing of national banks and their branches is contained in the current set of licensing manuals.