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Regulation Q
Capital Adequacy of Bank Holding Companies, Savings and Loan Holding Companies, and State Member Banks

12 CFR 217; as amended effective January 1, 2024
Subpart A—General Provisions*
  • Section
  • Purpose, applicability, reservations of authority, and timing
  • Definitions
  • Operational requirements for counterparty credit risk
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart B—Capital Ratio Requirements and Buffers
  • Section
  • Minimum capital requirements
  • Capital conservation buffer, countercyclical capital buffer amount, and GSIB surcharge
  • Community bank leverage ratio framework
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart C—Definition of Capital
  • Section
  • Capital components and eligibility criteria for regulatory capital instruments
  • Minority interest
  • Regulatory capital adjustments and deductions
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart D—Risk-Weighted Assets—Standardized Approach
  • Section
  • Applicability
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for General Credit Risk
  • Mechanics for calculating risk-weighted assets for general credit risk
  • General risk weights
  • Off-balance sheet exposures
  • Derivative contracts
  • Cleared transactions
  • Guarantees and credit derivatives: substitution treatment
  • Collateralized transactions
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Unsettled Transactions
  • Unsettled transactions
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Securitization Exposures
  • Operational requirements for securitization exposures
  • Risk-weighted assets for securitization exposures
  • Simplified supervisory formula approach (SSFA) and the gross-up approach
  • Securitization exposures to which the SSFA and gross-up approach do not apply
  • Recognition of credit risk mitigants for securitization exposures
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Equity Exposures
  • Introduction and exposure measurement
  • Simple risk-weight approach (SRWA)
  • Equity exposures to investment funds
  • [Reserved]
  • Disclosures
  • Purpose and scope
  • Disclosure requirements
  • Disclosures by Board-regulated institutions described in section 217.61
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart E—Risk-Weighted Assets—Internal Ratings-Based and Advanced Measurement Approaches
  • Section
  • Purpose, applicability, and principle of conservatism
  • Definitions
  • [Reserved]
  • Qualification
  • Qualification process
  • Qualification requirements
  • Ongoing qualification
  • Merger and acquisition transitional arrangements
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for General Credit Risk
  • Mechanics for calculating total wholesale and retail risk-weighted assets
  • Counterparty credit risk of repo-style transactions, eligible margin loans, and OTC derivative contracts
  • Cleared transactions
  • Guarantees and credit derivatives: PD substitution and LGD adjustment approaches
  • Guarantees and credit derivatives: double default treatment
  • Unsettled transactions
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Securitization Exposures
  • Operational criteria for recognizing the transfer of risk
  • Risk-weighted assets for securitization exposures
  • Supervisory formula approach (SFA)
  • Simplified supervisory formula approach (SSFA)
  • Recognition of credit risk mitigants for securitization exposures
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Equity Exposures
  • Introduction and exposure measurement
  • Simple risk weight approach (SRWA)
  • Internal models approach (IMA)
  • Equity exposures to investment funds
  • Equity derivative contracts
  • [Reserved]
  • Risk-Weighted Assets for Operational Risk
  • Qualification requirements for incorporation of operational risk mitigants
  • Mechanics of risk-weighted asset calculation
  • [Reserved]
  • Disclosures
  • Purpose and scope
  • Disclosure requirements
  • Disclosures by certain advanced approaches Board-regulated institutions and Category III Board-regulated institutions
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart F—Risk-Weighted Assets—Market Risk
  • Section
  • Purpose, applicability, and reservation of authority
  • Definitions
  • Requirements for application of this subpart F
  • Measure for market risk
  • VaR-based measure
  • Stressed VaR-based measure
  • Specific risk
  • Incremental risk
  • Comprehensive risk
  • Standardized measurement method for specific risk
  • Simplified supervisory formula approach (SSFA)
  • Market risk disclosures
  • [Reserved]
  • Subpart G—Transition Provisions
  • Section
  • Transitions
  • Current expected credit losses (CECL) transition
  • Exposures related to the Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility
  • Temporary exclusions from total leverage exposure
  • Temporary changes to the community bank leverage ratio framework
  • Exposures related to the Paycheck Protection Program Lending Facility
  • Building Block Approach (BBA) capital conservation buffer transition
  • Subpart H—Risk-Based Capital Surcharge for Global Systemically Important Bank Holding Companies
  • Section
  • Purpose and applicability
  • Definitions
  • Identification as a global systemically important BHC
  • GSIB surcharge
  • Method 1 score
  • Method 2 score
  • Short-term wholesale funding score
  • Appendix to subpart H—Calibrating the GSIB surcharge
  • Subpart I—Application of Capital Rules
  • Section
  • The Board’s regulatory capital framework for depository institution holding companies organized as non-stock companies
  • Application of the Board’s regulatory capital framework to employee stock ownership plans that are depository institution holding companies and certain trusts that are savings and loan holding companies
  • Subpart J—Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Board-Regulated Institutions Significantly Engaged in Insurance Activities
  • Section
  • Purpose, applicability, and reservations of authority
  • Definitions
  • BBA ratio and minimum requirements
  • Capital conservation buffer
  • Determination of building blocks
  • Scaling parameters
  • Capital requirements under the Building Block Approach
  • Available capital resources under the Building Block Approach
AUTHORITY: 12 U.S.C. 248(a), 321-338a, 481-486, 1462a, 1467a, 1818, 1828, 1831n, 1831o, 1831p-l, 1831w, 1835, 1844(b), 1851, 3904, 3906-3909, 4808, 5365, 5368, 5371, and 5371 note; Pub. L. 116-136, 134 Stat. 281.

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For guidance on supervisory assessment of capital planning and positions: see 3–1506.311 (for LISCC firms and large and complex firms) and 3–1506.312 (for large and noncomplex firms).
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