[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: 12CFR221.120]

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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. 221.120  Allocation of stock collateral to purpose and nonpurpose credits to same customer.

    (a) A bank proposes to extend two credits (Credits A and B) to its 
customer. Although the two credits are proposed to be extended at the 
same time, each would be evidenced by a separate agreement. Credit A 
would be extended for the purpose of providing the customer with working 
capital (nonpurpose credit), collateralized by margin stock. Credit B 
would be extended for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock 
(purpose credit), without collateral or on collateral other than stock.

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    (b) This part allows a bank to extend purpose and nonpurpose credits 
simultaneously or successively to the same customer. This rule is 
expressed in Sec. 221.3(d)(4) which provides in substance that for any 
nonpurpose credit to the same customer, the lender shall in good faith 
require as much collateral not already identified to the customer's 
purpose credit as the lender would require if it held neither the 
purpose loan nor the identified collateral. This rule in 
Sec. 221.3(d)(4) also takes into account that the lender would not 
necessarily be required to hold collateral for the nonpurpose credit if, 
consistent with good faith banking practices, it would normally make 
this kind of nonpurpose loan without collateral.
    (c) The Board views Sec. 221.3(d)(4), when read in conjunction with 
Sec. 221.3(c) and (f), as requiring that whenever a lender extends two 
credits to the same customer, one a purpose credit and the other 
nonpurpose, any margin stock collateral must first be identified with 
and attributed to the purpose loan by taking into account the maximum 
loan value of such collateral as prescribed in Sec. 221.7 (the 
Supplement).
    (d) The Board is further of the opinion that under the foregoing 
circumstances Credit B would be indirectly secured by stock, despite the 
fact that there would be separate loan agreements for both credits. This 
conclusion flows from the circumstance that the lender would hold in its 
possession stock collateral to which it would have access with respect 
to Credit B, despite any ostensible allocation of such collateral to 
Credit A.