Federal Reserve Board – Federal Reserve Board announces final guidelines that establish a transparent, risk-based, and consistent set of factors for Reserve Banks to use in reviewing requests to access Federal Reserve accounts and payment services

The Federal Reserve Board on Monday introduced last pointers that set up a clear, risk-based, and constant set of things for Reserve Banks to make use of in reviewing requests to entry Federal Reserve accounts and cost companies. The ultimate pointers are considerably much like these proposed by the Board in its Might 2021 proposal and March 2022 supplemental proposal.

“The brand new pointers present a constant and clear course of to guage requests for Federal Reserve accounts and entry to cost companies with a view to help a protected, inclusive, and progressive cost system,” stated Vice Chair Lael Brainard.

Establishments providing new varieties of monetary merchandise or with novel charters have grown lately and lots of have requested entry to accounts – also known as “grasp accounts” – and cost companies provided by Federal Reserve Banks. The rules might be utilized by Reserve Banks to guage these requests with a clear and constant set of things.

The brand new pointers embrace a tiered assessment framework to supply extra readability on the extent of due diligence and scrutiny that Reserve Banks will apply to several types of establishments with various levels of threat. For instance, establishments with federal deposit insurance coverage can be topic to a extra streamlined degree of assessment, whereas establishments that have interaction in novel actions and for which authorities are nonetheless growing acceptable supervisory and regulatory frameworks would bear a extra intensive assessment. In response to public feedback, the tiered assessment framework within the last pointers was refined to supply extra comparable remedy between non-federally-insured establishments chartered underneath state and federal legislation.

The brand new pointers might be efficient upon publication within the Federal Register.

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