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FFIEC 009
the obligations solely of that branch. Other foreign office
The country lines for other geographic regions may be
liabilities may require documentation to qualify as local
completed when the domicile country of the obligor or
country liabilities. Since the report is consolidated, local
guarantor cannot be readily identified. This would
country assets exclude any claims on other offices of the
include, for example, investments in global funds, claims
consolidated reporting institution that are in the same
collateralized by a basket of convertible currencies or
country.
investment grade securities of different countries and
claims collateralized by a pool of securities that changes
daily.
H. Country Lines (including international
The classification of claims on entities which are unique
and regional institutions)
in structure and may not fit precisely into a single coun-
try exposure category will be considered on a case-by-
Report information by country or by international and
case basis by the federal banking agencies.
regional institution. Column (a) of the report names the
countries and international institutions for which the
Also excludes cross-border claims that are funded by
information is required, arranged by geographical area,
a third party if the funds provider expressly agrees
and column (b) lists their codes that are used to process
to assume the transfer risk as verified by appropriate
the data.
documentation.
The report form identifies (a) international and regional
In addition to lines for foreign countries and interna-
organizations, (b) individual countries and (c) other
tional organizations, schedule 1 includes a line for the
geographic regions (e.g., Other Europe, Other Latin
United States. This line is used only for entries in col-
America, Other Asia/Middle East, Other Africa and All
umns 8–13 and columns 16 and 17 on schedule 1 (in all
Other Countries). Claims on such international &
other columns, the United States line is blocked out on
regional organizations, even if located in the United
the schedule. The United States line is also blocked out
States, should be reported opposite the line ‘‘Interna-
for all columns on schedule 2.). The use of the United
tional,’’ ‘‘West European Regional,’’ ‘‘East European
States line on schedule 1 is explained below in the
Regional,’’
‘‘Latin
American
Regional,’’
‘‘Asian
instructions to specific columns. For purposes of this
Regional,’’ ‘‘African Regional,’’ or ‘‘Middle Eastern
line, ‘‘United States’’ is defined as the 50 states of the
Regional,’’ as appropriate. The regional entries cover
United States, the District of Columbia, the Common-
organizations that are regional in scope such as the
wealth of Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam,
European Coal and Steel Community (Western Europe),
Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Islands, the U.S.
the Inter-American Development Bank (Latin America)
Virgin Islands and Wake Island.
or the Asian Development Bank (Asia). The ‘‘Interna-
tional’’ entry covers organizations of a global character,
such as the International Monetary Fund and the World
I. Sector Definitions
Bank. However, for purposes of this report, the Bank for
The following sectors are used in the reporting of
International Settlements and the European Fund are to
obligers and guarantors (columns 1–3, 8–13 of Sched-
be treated as ‘‘Other Europe,’’ and not as ‘‘International’’
ule 1 and columns 1–3 of Schedule 2):
or ‘‘Regional.’’ All international and regional institutions
are to be reported as ‘‘public.’’ Claims on foreign govern-
(1) Banks (schedule 1: columns 1, 8, and 11; schedule 2:
ments’ other public sector entities should be reported in
column 1) For the purposes of this report, the term
columns 1–4 on the line of the ‘‘home’’ country of the
‘‘bank’’ covers the following institutions: commer-
borrower.
cial banks, savings banks, discount houses, and other
The country lines for individual countries must be com-
similar institutions accepting short-term deposits. It
pleted when the domicile country of the obligor or guar-
includes banking institutions owned by foreign gov-
antor can be readily identified. Reporting to these lines
ernments unless such institutions function as central
will be used to compute the reporting institutions’ expo-
banks or banks of issue, in which case they are
sure to specific countries.
treated as ‘‘public’’ institutions. The definition of
Instructions for Preparation of Reporting Form FFIEC 009
009-6
December 1997

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