Movement on Reg CC amendments (with some DD for good measure)

The Federal Reserve Board and Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection have jointly announced proposed amendments to Regulation CC (12 CFR part 229) that would implement a statutory requirement to adjust for inflation the amount of funds depository institutions must make available to their customers. The amendments would apply in circumstances ranging from next business day withdrawal of certain check deposits to setting the threshold amount for determining whether an account has been repeatedly withdrawn. The Dodd-Frank Act amendments to the Expedited Funds Availability Act (EFA Act) require that the EFA Act's dollar amounts be inflation adjusted every five years by the annual percentage increase in the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). The first set of proposed adjustments are detailed the agencies' Federal Register Notice. To help ensure that institutions have sufficient time to implement the adjustments, the agencies propose a compliance date that would be at least 12 months after publication of a final rule in the Federal Register.

The agencies also propose to implement in Regulation CC the EFA Act amendments made by the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, which include extending coverage of the EFA Act to American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Guam.

Finally, the agencies are providing an additional opportunity for public comment on certain funds-availability amendments in subpart B of Regulation CC that the Board published in 2011 regarding funds availability schedule provisions and associated definitions. In taking this step, the agencies have not made a decision on whether to make any aspects of the 2011 proposal final. Reopening the comment period will provide the agencies with up-to-date public views to consider.

The Bureau is proposing to make some technical updates to Regulation DD (12 CFR part 1030) that relate to Regulation CC, as well as correct the typographical errors in the Appendix A formulas for calculating the APY (which BankersOnline called to the Bureau's attention many months ago), where terms in the formulas should have been shown as exponents.

Comments will be accepted for 60 days after publication.

UPDATE: Published 12/10/18 with comments due by 2/8/19.