FRY13_20201210_omb

Supporting Statement for the
Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Associated with Regulation Y (Capital Plans)
(FR Y-13; OMB No. 7100-0342)
Regulations Q, Y, and YY: Regulatory Capital, Capital Plan, and Stress Test Rules
(Docket No. R-1603; RIN 7100-AF02)
Summary
The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board), under authority
delegated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has extended for three years, with
revision, the Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements Associated with Regulation Y (Capital
Plans) (FR Y-13; OMB No. 7100-0342). Regulation Y - Bank Holding Companies and Change
in Bank Control (12 CFR Part 225) requires large bank holding companies and U.S. intermediate
holding companies (jointly referred to as BHCs) to submit capital plans to the Board on an
annual basis and requires such BHCs to request prior approval from the Board under certain
circumstances before making a capital distribution. Although there are additional data reporting
requirements, there are no required reporting forms associated with this information collection.
The Board adopted changes to the FR Y-13 related to a final rule (SCB rule) that
simplifies the Board’s capital framework while preserving strong capital requirements for large
firms.1 In connection with the SCB rule, the Board modified the process by which a firm
determines the final planned capital distributions included in its capital plan. In addition, under
certain conditions, the final rule removes the requirement for a firm to request prior approval to
make distributions that exceed the amount included in its capital plan. The final rule also
modifies the timeline and procedures related to a firm’s stress capital buffer requirement,
requests for reconsideration, and capital plan resubmissions. The revisions are effective when the
final rule goes into effect, May 18, 2020.
The current estimated total annual burden for the FR Y-13 is 337,921 hours, and would
decrease to 335,893 hours. The adopted revisions would result in a decrease of 2,028 hours.
Background and Justification
On December 1, 2011, the Board published the Capital Plans final rule (2011 final rule)
in the Federal Register (76 FR 74631) revising the Board’s Regulation Y. Under section 165 of
the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), the Board
is required to impose enhanced prudential standards on large BHCs, including stress testing
requirements; enhanced capital, liquidity, and risk management requirements; and a requirement
to establish a risk committee.2 The Board believes that it is appropriate to hold large BHCs to an
elevated capital planning standard because of the elevated risk posed to the financial system by
large BHCs and the importance of capital in mitigating these risks.

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85 FR 15576 (March 18, 2020).
See generally section 165 of Pub. L. No. 111-203, 124 Stat. 1376 (2010) (Dodd-Frank Act); 12 U.S.C. § 5365.

During the years leading up to the recent financial crisis, many BHCs made significant
distributions of capital, in the form of stock repurchases and dividends, without due
consideration of the effects that a prolonged economic downturn could have on their capital
adequacy and ability to continue to operate and remain credit intermediaries during times of
economic and financial stress. The 2011 final rule addressed such practices, building upon the
Board’s existing supervisory expectation that large BHCs have robust systems and processes that
incorporate forward-looking projections of revenue and losses to monitor and maintain their
internal capital adequacy.3
On July 1, 2014, the Board published a final rule (2014 final rule) in the Federal Register
(79 FR 64026) modifying the start date of the capital plan and stress test cycles from October 1
of a calendar year to January 1 of the following calendar year. The 2014 final rule also made
other changes, including amending the capital plan rule to limit a bank holding company’s ability
to make capital distributions to the extent that the bank holding company’s actual capital
issuances are less than the amount indicated in its capital plan under baseline conditions,
measured on a quarterly basis. The 2014 final rule also clarified application of the capital plan
rule to a bank holding company that is a subsidiary of a U.S. intermediate holding company of a
foreign banking organization and the characteristics of a stressed scenario to be included in
company run stress tests. The 2014 final rule also revised the Board’s Policy Statement on the
Scenario Design Framework for Stress Testing and the Board’s Regulation YY - Enhanced
Prudential Standards (12 CFR Part 252) to reflect the revisions to the start date of the stress test
cycle.
The FR Y-13 requirements apply to every top-tier BHC domiciled in the United States
that has $100 billion or more in total consolidated assets and U.S. intermediate holding
companies with total consolidated assets of $100 billion or more.
Description of Information Collection
The reporting and recordkeeping requirements are found in sections 225.8(e), (j), and (k).
The Board believes that the requirements help ensure that large BHCs have appropriate capital
plans in place to address their capital adequacy and their ability to continue operating and to
remain credit intermediaries during times of economic and financial stress. Compliance with the
information collections is mandatory. No other federal law mandates these reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Reporting Requirements
Section 225.8(e)(1)(ii) requires a BHC to submit its complete capital plan to the Board
and the appropriate Reserve Bank by April 5 of each calendar year, or such later date as directed
by the Board or by the appropriate Reserve Bank with concurrence of the Board.

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See SR letter 09-4 (Revised March 27, 2009), available at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/srletters/2009/SR0904.htm; see also Revised Temporary Addendum to
SR letter 09-4 (November 17, 2010) (SR 09-04), available at
https://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/srletters/2009/SR0904_Addendum.pdf.

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Section 225.8(e)(3) requires that in connection with submissions of capital plans to the
Board, BHCs are required to provide certain data to the Board, including:
• The BHC’s financial condition, including its capital,
• The BHC’s structure,
• Amount and risk characteristics of the BHC’s on- and off-balance sheet exposures,
including exposures within the BHC’s trading account, other trading-related exposures
(such as counterparty-credit risk exposures) or other items sensitive to changes in market
factors, including, as appropriate, information about the sensitivity of positions to
changes in market rates and prices,
• The BHC’s relevant policies and procedures, including risk management policies and
procedures,
• The BHC’s liquidity profile and management,
• The loss, revenue, and expense estimation models used by the BHC for stress scenario
analysis, including supporting documentation regarding each model’s development and
validation, and
• Any other relevant qualitative or quantitative information requested by the Board or the
appropriate Reserve Bank to facilitate review of the BHC’s capital plan.
Section 225.8(e)(4) requires the BHC to update and resubmit its capital plan to the
appropriate Reserve Bank within 30 calendar days of the occurrence of certain events.
Section 225.8(j) requires that within 15 calendar days of receipt of a notice of objection
to a capital plan by the Board or appropriate Reserve Bank, the BHC may submit a written
request to the Board requesting reconsideration of the objection, including an explanation of why
reconsideration should be granted. As an alternative to a request for reconsideration, the BHC
may submit a request for an informal hearing.
Under section 225.8(k)(1), in certain circumstances, large BHCs will be required to
obtain prior approval from the Board before making capital distributions. A BHC may submit a
request for non-objection that includes all the information from 225.8(k)(2). Section 225.8(k)(2)
states that prior approval requests contain the following information:
• The BHC’s current capital plan or an attestation that there have been no changes to the
capital plan since it was last submitted to the Federal Reserve,
• The purpose of the transaction,
• A description of the capital distribution, including for redemptions or repurchases of
securities, the gross consideration to be paid and the terms and sources of funding for the
transaction, and for dividends, the amount of the dividend(s), and
• Any additional information requested by the Board or appropriate Reserve Bank (which
may include, among other things, an assessment of the BHC’s capital adequacy under a
revised stress scenario provided by the Federal Reserve, a revised capital plan, and
supporting data).
Section 225.8(k)(4) provides that if the Board or appropriate Reserve Bank disapproves
of a BHC’s capital distribution, the BHC within 15 calendar days of receipt of a notice of
disapproval by the Board may submit a written request for a hearing.

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Recordkeeping Requirements
Section 225.8(e)(1)(i) requires a BHC to develop and maintain a capital plan. The level of
detail and analysis expected in a capital plan will vary based on the BHC’s size, complexity, risk
profile, scope of operations, and the effectiveness of its processes for assessing capital adequacy.
The capital plan must contain at least the following elements:
• An assessment of the expected uses and sources of capital over the planning horizon that
reflects the BHC’s size, complexity, risk profile, and scope of operations, assuming both
expected and stressful conditions,
• A detailed description of the BHC’s process for assessing capital adequacy,
• The BHC’s capital policy, and
• A discussion of any expected changes to the bank holding company’s business plan that
are likely to have a material impact on the bank holding company’s capital adequacy or
liquidity.
The mandatory elements under each component are described in section 225.8(e)(2).
Section 225.8(e)(1)(iii) requires the BHC’s board of directors or a designated committee
must at least annually review and approve the BHC’s capital plan prior to its submission to the
appropriate Reserve Bank.
Respondent Panel
The FR Y-13 panel comprises every top-tier BHC domiciled in the United States that has
$100 billion or more in total consolidated assets and U.S. intermediate holding companies with
total consolidated assets of $100 billion or more.
Revisions to the FR Y-13
The SCB rule integrated the Board’s regulatory capital rule with the CCAR, as
implemented through the Board’s capital plan rule. The final rule made amendments to the
capital rule, capital plan rule, stress test rules, and Stress Testing Policy Statement. Under the
SCB rule, the Board will use the results of its supervisory stress test to establish the size of a
firm’s stress capital buffer requirement, which replaces the static 2.5 percent of risk-weighted
assets component of a firm’s capital conservation buffer requirement. Through the integration of
the capital rule and CCAR, the SCB rule removed redundant elements of the current capital and
stress testing frameworks that currently operate in parallel rather than together, including the
CCAR quantitative objection and the assumption that a firm makes all capital actions under
stress.
In connection with the SCB rule, the Board modified the process by which a firm
determines the final planned capital distributions included in its capital plan. In addition, under
certain conditions, the final rule removes the requirement for a firm to request prior approval to
make distributions that exceed the amount included in its capital plan. The final rule also
modifies the timeline and procedures related to a firm’s stress capital buffer requirement,
requests for reconsideration, and capital plan resubmissions. The Board added a reporting
requirement in section 225.8(h)(2)(ii)(B) that within two business days of receipt of notice of a
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stress capital buffer requirement, a bank holding company must notify the Board of any
adjustments made to planned capital distributions for the fourth through seventh quarters of the
planning horizon under the BHC baseline scenario. The revisions are effective when the final
rule goes into effect, May 18, 2020.
Time Schedule for Information Collection
Information collection pursuant to the recordkeeping requirements is event-generated and
must be maintained onsite. The reporting of an initial or resubmission of a revised capital plan,
the submission of data pursuant to section 225.8(e)(3), and the submission of prior approval
requests must be provided to the Board within the time periods established by the regulation:
• Section 225.8(e)(1)(ii) requires a BHC to submit its complete capital plan to the Board
and the appropriate Reserve Bank each year by April 5th, or such later date as directed by
the Board or by the appropriate Reserve Bank with concurrence of the Board,
• Section 225.8(e)(1)(iii) requires the BHC’s board of directors or a designated committee
to review and approve the BHC’s capital plan prior to its submission to the appropriate
Federal Reserve Bank,
• Section 225.8(e)(3) requires BHCs to provide certain data to the Board, upon the request
of the Board or appropriate Reserve Bank,
• Section 225.8(e)(4) requires the BHC to update and resubmit its capital plan within 30
calendar days of the occurrence of certain events,
• Section 225.8(j) provides that the BHC may submit a written request for reconsideration
within 15 calendar days of receipt of a notice of objection by the Board of the BHC’s
capital plan,
• Section 225.8(k)(1) provides that, in certain circumstances, large BHCs will be required
to obtain prior approval from the Board before making capital distributions, and
• Section 225.8(k)(4) provides that the BHC may submit a written request for a hearing
within 15 calendar days of receipt of a notice of disapproval (of a capital plan) by the
Board.
Public Availability of Data
There is no data related to this information collection available to the public.
Legal Status
Section 616(a) of the Dodd-Frank Act amended section 5(b) of the Bank Holding
Company Act of 1956 (BHC Act) (12 U.S.C. § 1844(b)) to specifically authorize the Board to
issue regulations and orders relating to capital requirements for BHCs. The Board is also
authorized to collect and require reports from BHCs pursuant to section 5(c) of the BHC Act (12
U.S.C. § 1844(c)). Additionally, the Board’s rulemaking authority for the information collection
and disclosure requirements associated with the FR Y-13 is found in sections 908 and 910 of the
International Lending Supervision Act of 1983, as amended (12 U.S.C. §§ 3907 and 3909).
Additional support for FR Y-13 is found in sections 165 and 166 of the Dodd-Frank Act

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(12 U.S.C. §§ 5365 and 5366).4 The obligation to respond to this information collection is
mandatory.
The capital plan information submitted by the covered BHC will consist of confidential
and proprietary modeling information and highly sensitive business plans, such as acquisition
plans submitted to the Board for approval. Therefore, it appears the information will be subject
to withholding under exemption 4 of the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. §552(b)(4)).
Consultation Outside the Agency
There has been no consultation outside the agency.
Public Comments
On April 25, 2018, the Board published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal
Register (83 FR 18160) for public comment. The comment period for this notice expired on
June 25, 2018. The Board did not receive any comments related to the Paperwork Reduction Act
analysis. On March 18, 2020, the Board published a final rule in the Federal Register
(85 FR 15576).
Estimate of Respondent Burden
As shown in the table below, the estimated total annual burden for the FR Y-13 is
337,921 hours, and would decrease to 335,893 hours with the adopted revisions. The Board
estimates that the revisions to the FR Y-13 would decrease the estimated annual burden by 2,028
hours. The Board estimates that the hours per response for the new reporting requirement is 2
hours. These reporting and recordkeeping requirements represent approximately 3.7 percent of
the Board’s total paperwork burden.

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Section 165 requires the Board to impose enhances prudential standards on large BHCs, including stress testing
requirements; enhanced capital, liquidity, and risk management requirements; and a requirement to establish a risk
committee. Section 166 requires the Board to impose early remediation requirements on large BHCs under which a
large BHC experiencing financial distress must take specific remedial actions in order to minimize the probability
that the company will become insolvent and to minimize the potential harm of such insolvency the United States.

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Estimated
Estimated
Estimated
Annual
number of
average hours annual burden
frequency
respondents5
per response
hours

FR Y-13
Current
Reporting
Section 225.8(e)(1)(ii)
Section 225.8(e)(3)
Section 225.8(e)(4)
Section 225.8(f)(3)(i)
Sections 225.8(g)(1), (3), and (4)
Section 225.8(g)(3)(iii)(A)
Section 225.8(g)(6)

34
25
10
2
23
2
2

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

80
1,005
100
16
100
16
16

2,720
25,125
1,000
32
2,300
32
32

Recordkeeping
Section 225.8(e)(1)(i)
Section 225.8(e)(1)(iii)

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34

1
1

8,920
100

303,280
3,400
337,921

Proposed
Reporting6
Section 225.8(e)(1)(ii)
Section 225.8(e)(3)
Section 225.8(e)(4)
Section 225.8(h)(2)(ii)(B)
Sections 225.8(j)
Section 225.8(k)(1) and (2)
Section 225.8(k)(4)

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25
10
2
2
3
2

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

80
1,005
100
2
16
100
16

2,720
25,125
1,000
4
32
300
32

Recordkeeping
Section 225.8(e)(1)(i)
Section 225.8(e)(1)(iii)

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34

1
1

8,920
100

Proposed Total

303,280
3,400
335,893

Change

(2,028)

Current Total

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Of these respondents, none are considered small entities as defined by the Small Business Administration (i.e.,
entities with less than $600 million in total assets), https://www.sba.gov/document/support--table-size-standards.
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The reporting requirement in section 225.8(l) is identical to a reporting requirement in the FR Y-14A. The burden
associated with this requirement is accounted for in the burden estimate for the FR Y-14 information collection.

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The current estimated total annual cost to the public for the FR Y-13 is $19,514,938 and
would decrease to $19,397,821 with the adopted revisions.7
Sensitive Questions
This information collection contains no questions of a sensitive nature, as defined by
OMB guidelines.
Estimate of Cost to the Federal Reserve System
The estimated cost to the Federal Reserve System for the reporting requirements
associated with the FR Y-13 is $106,400. This is equivalent to one full time employee on an
annual basis. The other capital plan requirements, associated with the FR Y-13, have been
integrated into the Board’s existing supervisory process.

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Total cost to the public was estimated using the following formula: percent of staff time, multiplied by annual
burden hours, multiplied by hourly rates (30% Office & Administrative Support at $20, 45% Financial Managers at
$71, 15% Lawyers at $70, and 10% Chief Executives at $93). Hourly rates for each occupational group are the
(rounded) mean hourly wages from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS), Occupational Employment and Wages
May 2019, published March 31, 2020, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ocwage.t01.htm. Occupations are defined
using the BLS Standard Occupational Classification System, https://www.bls.gov/soc/.

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