The H.8 release provides an estimated weekly aggregate balance sheet for all commercial banks in the United States. The release also includes separate balance sheet aggregations for several bank groups: domestically chartered commercial banks; large domestically chartered commercial banks; small domestically chartered commercial banks; and foreign-related institutions in the United States. Foreign-related institutions include U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks as well as Edge Act and agreement corporations. Published weekly, the release is typically available to the public by 4:15 p.m. each Friday. If Friday is a federal holiday, then the data are released on Thursday.The H.8 release is primarily based on data that are reported weekly by a sample of approximately 875 domestically chartered banks and foreign-related institutions. As of December 2009, U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks accounted for about 60 of the weekly reporters and domestically chartered banks made up the rest of the sample. Data for domestically chartered commercial banks and foreign-related institutions that do not report weekly are estimated at a weekly frequency based on quarterly Call Report data.

Insured domestically chartered commercial banks and savings associations that have one or more branch offices in a foreign country are required to report balance sheet information for each of their foreign branches on either the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) 030 or FFIEC 030S. The Foreign Branch Report of Condition (FFIEC 030) collects information on the structure and geographic distribution of foreign branch assets, liabilities, derivatives, and off-balance-sheet data. The Abbreviated Foreign Branch Report of Condition (FFIEC 030S) collects five financial data items for smaller, less complex branches. The FFIEC 030 is collected annually as of December 31 or quarterly for significant branches as of the last day of each calendar quarter; the FFIEC 030S is an abbreviated reporting form filed annually by smaller institutions. The Federal Reserve receives reports for all foreign branches of U.S. banks, regardless of charter type, on behalf of the U.S. banks' primary federal bank regulatory agency (Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), or Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) (collectively, the agencies)). The agencies use the FFIEC 030 and FFIEC 030S reports to fulfill their statutory obligation to supervise foreign operations of domestic banks.

Transfer agents, which provide securities transfer, registration, monitoring, and other services to securities issuers, are required by the Securities Exchange Act to register with the appropriate regulatory agency (ARA). The Board is the ARA for state member banks and their subsidiaries, bank holding companies (BHCs), savings and loan holding companies, and certain other subsidiaries of BHCs. Transfer agents for which the Board is the ARA must register with the Board using the Transfer Agent Registration & Amendment Form (Form TA-1). This form collects a registrant’s company name, business addresses, and information regarding the institution’s proposed transfer agent activities. Additionally, registered transfer agents for which the Board is their ARA may deregister by submitting Transfer Agent Deregistration (Form TA-W).

These mandatory information collections must be submitted in certain circumstances by a municipal security dealer (MSD) that is itself or is a subsidiary of a state member bank (SMB), a bank holding company (BHC), a savings and loan holding company (SLHC), or a foreign dealer bank, as defined below. Form MSD-4 collects information (such as personal history and professional qualifications) regarding an employee whom the MSD wishes to assume the duties of municipal securities principal or representative. Form MSD-5 collects the date of, and reason for, termination of such an employee.

A table that summarizes the amounts outstanding for the securities issued by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service adjusted for Unamortized Discount on Treasury Bills and Zero Coupon Treasury Bonds, Other Debt (old debt issued before 1917 and old currency called United States Notes), Debt held by the Federal Financing Bank and Guaranteed Debt of Government Agencies that makes up the Total Public Debt Subject to Limit amount.

This reporting form collects information on covered transactions between an insured depository institution and its affiliates that are subject to the quantitative limits and other requirements of section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act (12 U.S.C. § 371c) and the Board's Regulation W - Transactions Between Member Banks and Their Affiliates (12 CFR Part 223). The FR Y-8 is filed quarterly by all U.S. top-tier bank holding companies (BHCs), intermediate holding companies (IHCs), and savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs); and by foreign banking organizations (FBOs) that directly own or control a U.S. subsidiary insured depository institution (collectively, holding companies). If an FBO indirectly controls a U.S. insured depository institution through a domestic U.S. holding company, the domestic U.S. holding company must file the FR Y-8. A respondent must file a separate FR Y-8 report for each U.S. insured depository institution it controls. If an insured depository institution does not conduct any section 23A covered transactions with an affiliate in a particular quarter, its parent holding company is not required to submit an FR Y-8 report for that quarter with respect to that subsidiary.

The Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, requires financial institutions to notify their appropriate regulatory agency (ARA) prior to using the mails or any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce to engage in government securities broker or dealer activities, and to notify their ARA upon terminating such activities. The Board is the ARA for state member banks, foreign banks, uninsured state branches or state agencies of foreign banks, commercial lending companies owned or controlled by foreign banks, and Edge Act corporations (collectively, Board-regulated financial institutions). A Board-regulated financial institution must use Form G-FIN to register as a government securities broker or dealer or to amend a previously submitted Form G-FIN, and must use Form G-FINW to notify the Board of its termination of such activities. The information collection is event-generated. (#7100-0224 is one information collection, under the Paperwork Reduction Act.)