[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 12, Volume 3]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 12CFR221.108]

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                       TITLE 12--BANKS AND BANKING
 
                   CHAPTER II--FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
 
PART 221--CREDIT BY BANKS AND PERSONS OTHER THAN BROKERS OR DEALERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PURCHASING OR CARRYING MARGIN STOCK (REGULATION U)--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 221.108  Effect of registration of stock subsequent to making of loan.

    (a) The Board recently was asked whether a loan by a bank to enable 
the borrower to purchase a newly issued nonmargin stock during the 
initial over-the-counter trading period prior to the stock becoming 
registered (listed) on a national securities exchange would be subject 
to this part. The Board replied that, until such stock qualifies as 
margin stock, this would not be applicable to such a loan.
    (b) The Board has now been asked what the position of the lending 
bank would be under this part if, after the date on which the stock 
should become registered, such bank continued to hold a loan of the kind 
just described. It is assumed that the loan was in an amount greater 
than the maximum loan value for the collateral specified in this part.
    (c) If the stock should become registered, the loan would then be 
for the purpose of purchasing or carrying a margin stock, and, if 
secured directly or indirectly by any margin stock, would be subject to 
this part as from the date the stock was registered. Under this part, 
this does not mean that the bank would have to obtain reduction of the 
loan in order to reduce it to an amount no more than the specified 
maximum loan value. It does mean, however, that so long as the loan 
balance exceeded the specified

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maximum loan value, the bank could not permit any withdrawals or 
substitutions of collateral that would increase such excess; nor could 
the bank increase the amount of the loan balance unless there was 
provided additional collateral having a maximum loan value at least 
equal to the amount of the increase. In other words, as from the date 
the stock should become a margin stock, the loan would be subject to 
this part in exactly the same way, for example, as a loan subject to 
this part that became under-margined because of a decline in the current 
market value of the loan collateral or because of a decrease by the 
Board in the maximum loan value of the loan collateral.