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Finance & Development June 1, 2000 Hans Dieter Seibel |
Agricultural Development Banks Close Them or Reform Them? Agricultural development banks were established to extend credit and other financial services to customers not considered creditworthy by commercial banks. Should these banks be closed or are they worth revamping?  |
OCC Bulletin June 26, 2000 |
Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information Proposed guidelines establishing standards for safeguarding customer information require each bank to establish an information security program tailored to its size and the nature and scope of its operations...  |
OCC Bulletin June 20, 2000 |
Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act generally restrict the ability of financial institutions to transfer nonpublic personal information about consumers to nonaffiliated third parties...  |
OCC Bulletin June 20, 2000 |
Uniform Retail Credit Classification And Account Management Policy The policy establishes standards for classification and account management of retail credit in banks and thrifts. It generally requires that closed-end loans be charged off when 120 days past due and that open-end credit be charged off when 180 days past due...  |
OCC Bulletin June 19, 2000 |
Suspicious Activity Report All banks are required to file Suspicious Activity Reports when they detect a known or suspected violation of federal law or a suspicious transaction related to a money laundering activity or a violation of the Bank Secrecy Act...  |
OCC Bulletin May 30, 2000 |
Risk Modeling This bulletin provides guidance to help financial institutions mitigate potential risks arising from reliance on computer-based financial models that are improperly validated or tested...  |
OCC Bulletin May 15, 2000 |
Infrastructure Threats -- Intrusion Risks This bulletin provides guidance to financial institutions on how to prevent, detect, and respond to intrusions into bank computer systems...  |
OCC Bulletin March 30, 2000 |
Financial Subsidiaries and Operating Subsidiaries A final rule adds a new regulation to implement the financial subsidiary provisions of the Gramm Leach Bliley Act, to provide a notice process for national banks making non-controlling investments...  |
Finance & Development March 1, 2000 Robert Rennhack |
Banking Supervision Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, like other emerging markets, have experienced banking system difficulties that have hampered growth and generated fiscal costs as high as 10 to 20 percent of GDP and even more. Many countries have improved their banking systems, but further reform is needed.  |
OCC Bulletin March 29, 2000 |
Assessment of Fees for National Banks and District of Columbia Banks A proposed rule on assessment of fees would enable the OCC to capture better the costs of supervising national trust banks that are not affiliated with a full service national bank (independent trust banks)...  |
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