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Large Bank Deposit Insurance Determination Modernization

Miscellaneous Account Handling
March 18, 2009

Overview:
Rule provisions attempt to protect funds that may be determined to be excess from leaving the financial institution during the period between the institution closing date and when a final insurance determination may be made. Attributes of accounts that fit this format follow:
  • Balances are on deposit systems
  • Balances are accessible by customers
  • There is a reasonable likelihood that the accounts, when combined with other accounts for the same customer, could result in excess deposit balances, e.g. more than $ 250,000
  • The accounts are serviced by a system that is integrated with other deposit applications
  • The balances are included as deposits on the Call Report or TFR and subject to insurance assessments
Following is a table of accounts where institutions have asked for guidance regarding treatment for provisional hold processing and whether the accounts should be included in data downloads. The list will be expanded with additional account types through time.

Account Type Account Location Provisional Hold Data Download (a)
Prepaid Gift Cards GL N N
Prepaid Gift Cards DDA N Y
Prepaid Payroll Cards GL N N
Prepaid Payroll Cards DDA N Y
GL Suspense Accounts GL N N
Omnibus/MMMF Sweeps GL N N
Omnibus/MMMF Sweeps DDA N Y(b)
Clearing Accounts GL N N
Credit Card Overpayments GL N N
Loan Overpayments GL N N
CDARS GL N N
Brokered Deposits GL N N
Health Savings Accounts GL N N
Health Savings Accounts DDA N Y(b)
Employee Deductions GL N N
Employee Deductions DDA N Y(b)
Cahier/Official Checks DDA N Y
TT&L Accounts GL N N
TT&L Accounts DDA N Y(b)
Unclaimed Property GL N N
Escrow Accounts GL N N
Prepaid Loan Expenses GL N N
Loan Proceeds in Process GL N N
 
Trust Accounts in Process Pending review    
Safekeeping balances Pending review    

Notes:
(a) To the extent any deposit account is part of a deposit application whose balance resides on a deposit system and is included with normal deposit trial balances and reporting, that account balance would generally be subject to provisional hold and reporting requirements under the rule.
(b) If the DDA account represents a summary of many individual accounts, include the account as a single total on the download. In anticipation of closure the FDIC would request a file containing details of the account including the account holder’s name, related deposit account number, and amount of the balance attributable to the account holder.

A number of these accounts may reside on external systems with only summary posting totals to the institutions’ general ledger. In a majority of those situations, such as credit card overpayments, these accounts would not be subject to provisional holds nor would they be included in deposit file downloads prepared for the FDIC. They may, however, be scrutinized more closely in the event of failure.

Accounts that would not be in scope generally include GL accounts used as clearing accounts for unposted items.

Credit card, prepaid card, payroll card, gift card, and other similar accounts would generally not be covered due to the small balances and inaccessibility to owner information.

Balances representing government benefits payable, such as food stamps, child support, and similar programs would not be covered.

Balance representing health benefits payable to employees would generally not be covered.

The foregoing only applies to compliance with rule provisions. Closing procedures would address several of these types of accounts individually.

Last Updated 05/04/2009 regs@fdic.gov

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