Regulations last checked for updates: Jun 16, 2024

Title 12 - Banks and Banking last revised: Jun 11, 2024
§ 3.155 - Equity derivative contracts.

(a) Under the IMA, in addition to holding risk-based capital against an equity derivative contract under this part, a national bank or Federal savings association must hold risk-based capital against the counterparty credit risk in the equity derivative contract by also treating the equity derivative contract as a wholesale exposure and computing a supplemental risk-weighted asset amount for the contract under § 3.132.

(b) Under the SRWA, a national bank or Federal savings association may choose not to hold risk-based capital against the counterparty credit risk of equity derivative contracts, as long as it does so for all such contracts. Where the equity derivative contracts are subject to a qualified master netting agreement, a national bank or Federal savings association using the SRWA must either include all or exclude all of the contracts from any measure used to determine counterparty credit risk exposure.

authority: 12 U.S.C. 93a,161,1462,1462a,1463,1464,1818,1828,1828,1831n,1835,3907,3909,5412,and. L. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281
source: 50 FR 10216, Mar. 14, 1985, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 12 CFR 3.155