Revenue Limit on Bank-Ineligible Activities of Subsidiaries of Bank Holding Companies Engaged in Underwriting and Dealing in Securities

Zusammenfassung

The Board is proposing to increase from 10 percent to 25 percent the amount of total revenue that a nonbank subsidiary of a bank holding company (a so-called section 20 subsidiary) may derive from underwriting and dealing in securities that a member bank may not underwrite or deal in. The revenue limit is designed to ensure that section 20 subsidiaries will not be engaged principally in underwriting and dealing in such securities in violation of section 20 of the Glass- Steagall Act. Based on its experience supervising these subsidiaries and developments in the securities markets since a revenue limitation was adopted in 1987, the Board believes that a company earning 25 percent or less of its revenue from underwriting and dealing would not be engaged principally in that activity for purposes of section 20.