Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI) Opt-Out Election

Corporate / Financial Institutions Alert

March 25, 2015
Corporate / Financial Institutions Alert

All financial institutions, other than advanced approaches financial institutions, may make a one-time permanent election to opt out of the requirement to include most components of Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI) when calculating common equity tier 1 capital under the Basel III rules. This will allow financial institutions to continue to treat certain AOCI components as permitted under the prior risk-based capital rules.

Financial institutions should review the AOCI opt-out election with their accountants.

A financial institution making the opt-out election must adjust common equity tier 1 capital as follows:

The AOCI opt-out election must be made on Schedule RC-R of the financial institution’s Call Report or on FR Y-9 for the March 31, 2015 report date.

A financial institution that is not an advanced approaches institution, but is a subsidiary of a banking organization subject to the regulatory capital requirements issued by the Fed, the OCC, or the FDIC, must make the same opt-out election as the banking organization of which it is a subsidiary.

For further information on this issue, please contact Tim Sullivan, Mike Morehead or your regular Hinshaw attorney.


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