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Financial Institution Letter

Final Rule on Special Assessment Pursuant to Systemic Risk Determination

Summary:

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors approved a final rule to implement a special assessment to recover the loss to the Deposit Insurance Fund (DIF) associated with protecting uninsured depositors following the closures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank . The Federal Deposit Insurance Act (FDI Act) requires the FDIC to take this action in connection with the systemic risk determination announced on March 12, 2023 .

Statement of Applicability: The contents of, and material referenced in, this FIL do not apply to any banking organization (defined to include FDIC-insured financial institutions that are not subsidiaries of a holding company and FDIC–insured financial institutions that are subsidiaries of a holding company with one or more FDIC–insured financial institution subsidiaries) with less than $5 billion in total consolidated assets.

Highlights:

Special Assessment Amount

  • Currently, the FDIC estimates that of the total cost of the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, approximately $16.3 billion was attributable to the protection of uninsured depositors.

Assessment Base for the Special Assessment

  • The assessment base for the special assessment is equal to an insured depository institution’s (IDI’s) estimated uninsured deposits reported as of December 31, 2022, adjusted to exclude the first $5 billion, applicable either to the IDI, if an IDI is not a subsidiary of a holding company, or at the banking organization level, to the extent that an IDI is part of a holding company with one or more subsidiary IDIs.

Special Assessment Rate

  • The special assessment will be collected at an annual rate of approximately 13.4 basis points for an anticipated total of eight quarterly assessment periods.

Collection Period

  • The special assessment will be collected beginning with the first quarterly assessment period of 2024 (i.e., January 1 through March 31, 2024) with an invoice payment date of June 28, 2024.
  • Because the estimated loss pursuant to the systemic risk determination will be periodically adjusted, the FDIC could:
    • Cease collection early, if it has collected enough to recover actual or estimated losses;
    • Extend the special assessment collection period one or more quarters beyond the initial eight-quarter collection period, if actual or estimated losses exceed the amounts collected; and
    • Impose a final shortfall special assessment on a one-time basis after the receiverships for Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank terminate, if actual losses exceed the amounts collected.

Additional Related Topics:

  • Assessments, 12 CFR Part 327
  • Special Assessment Pursuant to Systemic Risk Determination
FIL-58-2023
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Last Updated: November 16, 2023