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| 09/20/2007 | 07-02 | Incidental Authority: Does a Farm Credit System bank or association have authority to provide printing services to non-System entities? |
| 06/12/2007 | 07-01 | Mortgage Lending: Does a mortgage loan secured by a first lien on rural real estate that an eligible borrower leases meet the requirements of section 1.10(a)(2) of the Farm Credit Act of 1971? |
| 12/13/2006 | 06-01 | Incidental Authority: Does a Farm Credit System bank or association have authority to serve as the principal agent in syndications to similar entities?
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| 08/09/2006 | 06-02 | Incidental Authority: May an association provide third party loan administration services consisting of lock box, payment/disbursement and billing statement processing, and routine loan and accounting services? |
| 04/06/2004 | 04-01 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association process ineligible residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System secondary market lenders? |
| 11/05/2003 | 03-07 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association process crop insurance applications from independent insurance agents seeking insurance for their own clients? |
| 11/05/2003 | 03-06 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a Farm Credit System bank that provides a credit-scoring interface program to its affiliated institutions use the program’s excess capacity to provide that service to an unrelated corporate entity?
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| 08/06/2003 | 03-05 |
Topic: Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association process ineligible residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System secondary market lenders?
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| 07/31/2003 | 03-04 |
Topic: Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association process ineligible residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System secondary market lenders? |
| 04/14/2003 | 03-03 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association accept residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System lenders in communities with populations above 2,500?
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| 02/28/2003 | 03-02 | Incidental Authority/Promotional Activity: May a bank enter into an alliance with a land management company to help its customers obtain land management services? |
| 02/26/2003 | 03-01 | Incidental Authority: May a bank develop a credit-scoring interface and provide the product to its affiliated associations, other Farm Credit institutions, and Other Financing Institutions? |
| 12/06/2002 | 02-05 | Credit Delivery: May an association provide credit through a VISA credit card issued by a commercial bank? |
| 06/12/2002 | 02-04
| Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association engage in promotional activities for itself and another business by incorporating a hyperlink to the other business on its website and by permitting the other business to lease out its office space from time to time?
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| 05/14/2002 | 02-03
| Incidental Authority/Risk Management: May a Farm Credit System association enter into a credit default swap with a special purpose vehicle established and owned by a third party in order to transfer credit risk on a portion of its long-term mortgage loan portfolio?
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| 05/10/2002 | 02-02 | Effective Interest Rate Disclosure: Does the Farm Credit Act require a Farm Credit System lender to include the amount an existing borrower previously paid for stock in the effective interest rate calculation for subsequent loans to the same borrower?
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| 01/16/2002 | 02-01
| Eligibility and Scope of Financing: May a partner in a business that borrows from a Farm Credit System association refinance a home in a community where the population exceeds 2,500 inhabitants? |
| 09/27/2001 | 01-05 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association take residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System lenders in communities with populations above 2,500? |
| 06/19/2001 | 01-04 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a Farm Credit Bank use its excess capacity to provide information technology services to a non-Farm Credit System leasing corporation? |
| 05/16/2001 | 01-03 | Disclosure of Loan Documents: May Farm Credit System associations provide only unsigned photocopies of loan documents to borrowers? |
| 04/27/2001 | 01-02 | Incidental Authority/Promotional Activity: May a Farm Credit System association buy $10,000 of preferred stock in a farmer-owned cooperative that processes durum into pasta?
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| 02/15/2001 | 01-01 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a Farm Credit Bank use its excess staffing capacities to provide credit-related and marketing services to a non-Farm Credit System leasing corporation? |
| 08/13/2000 | 00-05 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an association take residential mortgage applications on behalf of non-Farm Credit System lenders in communities with populations above 2,500? |
| 06/07/2000 | 00-04 | Territorial Concurrence: Must an association obtain territorial concurrence when a new borrower located outside the association’s chartered territory assumes an existing loan to a borrower inside the association's territory? |
| 03/09/2000 | 00-03 | Participations: May a Farm Credit System association buy participation interests and servicing rights in several loans that an agricultural producer made to local farmers through purchase money mortgages?
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| 02/28/2000 | 00-02 | Stock: Does a “gift” of voting stock to trade credit borrowers satisfy the statutory requirement that borrowers acquire voting stock in an association as a condition of receiving a loan? |
| 02/14/2000 | 00-01 | Eligibility: Is a restaurant chain that plans to produce, process, and market all the meat and potatoes it sells in its restaurants eligible to borrow from a Farm Credit System lender? |
| 12/23/1999 | 99-13 | Related Services: May a Farm Credit System association contract with a buying service that enables its farmer members to buy material farm inputs such as fuel, fertilizer, and herbicide at a discount? |
| 10/12/1999 | 99-12 | Eligibility: Is a trucking firm that hauls farmer-owned and elevator-owned grain under a contract with a grain elevator a “farm-related business” eligible to receive financing from a Farm Credit System association? |
| 09/10/1999 | 99-11 | Eligibility: May a Farm Credit System association finance a business that offers various farm-related services, including custom blending and spreading of fertilizer, custom seed harvesting, and soil testing and analysis? |
| 08/18/1999 | 99-10 | Incidental Authority/Corporate Authority to Provide for Employees: May a Farm Credit System bank acquire ineligible residential properties from bank employees when they relocate? |
| 07/30/1999 | 99-09 | Participations: Is a Federal land credit association authorized to buy servicing rights and a participation interest in a pool of long-term agricultural loans from a non-Farm Credit System lender? |
| 04/29/1999 | 99-08 | Incidental Authority/Promotional Activity: May a Farm Credit System association provide $10,000 to a group of dairy farmers and producers forming a limited liability company to recycle dairy waste? |
| 04/14/1999 | 99-07 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: Does an agricultural credit association have the authority to enter into alliances with non-Farm Credit System lenders to process and service loans? |
| 03/05/1999 | 99-06 | Territorial Concurrence/Farmers’ Notes: May a Farm Credit System association provide funding for a borrower’s finance company subsidiary by discounting its customers’ notes without obtaining territorial concurrence? |
| 03/02/1999 | 99-05 | Voting Rights: Can a limited liability company owned by several cooperatives vote its participation certificates in a bank for cooperatives’ vote on approval of a proposed merger?
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| 02/14/1999 | 99-04 | Participations: Are Farm Credit System banks authorized to purchase 99% participation interests in loans originated by commercial banks and guarantee the remaining one-percent? |
| 01/13/1999 | 99-03 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a Federal land credit association enter into an alliance with a wholesale mortgage bank to process loan application packages for rural home loans funded and serviced by the non-Farm Credit System lender? |
| 01/07/1999 | 99-02 | Use of Property/Eligibility: May an agricultural credit association make a loan to an ineligible commercial real estate developer for construction of a small office building to be leased back to the association? |
| 01/06/1999 | 99-01 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a farm credit bank process loan applications, engage in loan underwriting, and prepare loan documentation for unaffiliated Farm Credit System (FCS) institutions and non-FCS financial institutions? |
| 12/29/1998 | 98-09 | Leasing Real Property: May a Farm Credit System association lease excess office space to an unrelated entity engaged in providing risk management and insurance services to the general public? |
| 12/16/1998 | 98-08 | Related Services: May Farm Credit System associations offer related services to eligible farm-related businesses, non-farm rural homeowners, and former farmers? |
| 11/25/1998 | 98-07 | Investment in Farmers’ Notes: May a production credit association discount notes that an almond processor makes to local almond growers? |
| 11/18/1998 | 98-06 | Borrower Rights: Must a Farm Credit System association provide loan restructuring rights to, and delay further action against, a financially troubled borrower with an unsecured loan? |
| 11/05/1998 | 98-05 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May a Farm Credit System association provide lease accounting services to other lenders? |
| 07/27/1998 | 98-04 | Corporate Authority: Does a Farm Credit System bank have the authority to acquire an interest in an LLC because it is necessary to the operation of the bank’s business?
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| 06/22/1998 | 98-03 | Eligibility: May a Farm Credit System association finance a processing and marketing operation owned by foreign nationals? |
| 06/17/1998 | 98-02 | Capital Regulations: What is the effect on the calculation of an association’s core and total surplus if it revolves a portion of its allocated equities within the next year?
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| 03/27/1998 | 98-01 | Incidental Authority/Excess Capacity: May an agricultural credit association process rural home loan application packages for a non-Farm Credit System lender? |
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