Funding and Fiscal Affairs, Loan Policies and Operations, and Funding Operations; Book-entry Procedures for Farm Credit Securities

Résumé

The Farm Credit Administration (FCA) adopts an interim rule that revises procedures governing the issuance, maintenance, and transfer of Farm Credit securities on the book-entry system of the Federal Reserve Banks (Book-entry System). The revisions are necessary to conform FCA book-entry procedures to the recently revised book-entry procedures of the Department of the Treasury (Treasury), which regulates the Book-entry System for Treasury securities. The interim rule also makes conforming amendments in the book-entry regulations governing securities of the Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation (FAC) and the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation (Farmer Mac). The FCA's action follows the action of Treasury, which revised its book-entry regulations to eliminate outdated legal concepts and incorporate significant changes in commercial and property law affecting the holding of securities through financial intermediaries. At the request of Treasury, and in coordination with other regulators of Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs), the FCA is making this interim rule effective on the same date as Treasury's new book-entry regulations. This coordinated action will avo