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(a) Affiliate means any entity that controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with another entity.

(b) Control. An entity “controls” another entity if:

(1) The entity directly or indirectly or acting through one or more other persons owns, controls, or has the power to vote 25 percent or more of any class of voting securities of the other entity;

(2) The entity controls in any manner the election of a majority of the directors or trustees of the other entity; or

(3) The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has determined, after notice and opportunity for hearing in accordance with 12 CFR 225.31, that the entity directly or indirectly exercises a controlling influence over the management or policies of the other entity.

(c) Corporate group means an entity and all affiliates of that entity.

(d) Counterparty means any natural person or entity (or separate foreign branch or division of any entity) that is a party to a QFC with a records entity.

(e) Derivative liabilities means the fair value of derivative instruments in a negative position as of the end of the most recent fiscal year end, as recognized and measured in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or other applicable accounting standards. Such value shall be adjusted for the effects of master netting agreements and cash collateral held with the same counterparty on a net basis to the extent such adjustments are reflected on the audited consolidated statement of financial condition of the applicable financial company filed with its primary financial regulatory agency or agencies or, for financial companies not required to file such statements, on the consolidated balance sheet of the financial company prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or other applicable accounting standards.

(f) Excluded entity means:

(1) An insured depository institution as defined in 12 U.S.C. § 1813(c)(2);

(2) A subsidiary of an insured depository institution that is not:

(i) A functionally regulated subsidiary as defined in 12 U.S.C. § 1844(c)(5);

(ii) A security-based swap dealer as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 78c(a)(71); or

(iii) A major security-based swap participant as defined in 15 U.S.C. § 78c(a)(67); or

(3) An insurance company.

(g) Financial company has the meaning set forth in 12 U.S.C. § 5381(a)(11).

(h) Insurance company means:

(1) An insurance company as defined in 12 U.S.C. § 5381(a)(13); and

(2) A mutual insurance holding company that meets the conditions set forth in 12 CFR 380.11 for being treated as an insurance company for the purpose of section 203(e) of the Dodd-Frank Act, 12 U.S.C. § 5383(e).

(i) Legal Entity Identifier or LEI for an entity shall mean the global legal entity identifier maintained for such entity by a utility accredited by the Global LEI Foundation or by a utility endorsed by the Regulatory Oversight Committee. As used in this definition:

(1) Regulatory Oversight Committee means the Regulatory Oversight Committee (of the Global LEI System), whose charter was set forth by the Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors of the Group of Twenty and the Financial Stability Board, or any successor thereof; and

(2) Global LEI Foundation means the not-for-profit organization organized under Swiss law by the Financial Stability Board in 2014, or any successor thereof.

(j) Parent entity with respect to an entity is an entity that controls that entity.

(k) Position means an individual transaction under or evidenced by a QFC and includes the rights and obligations of a party to an individual transaction under or evidenced by a QFC.

(l) Primary financial regulatory agency means:

(1) With respect to any financial company, the primary financial regulatory agency as specified for such financial company in subparagraphs (A), (B), (C), and (E) of 12 U.S.C. § 5301(12); and

(2) With respect to a financial market utility that is subject to a designation pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 5463 for which there is no primary financial regulatory agency under § 148.2(l)(1), the Supervisory Agency for that financial market utility as defined in 12 U.S.C. § 5462(8).

(m) Qualified financial contract or QFC means any qualified financial contract defined in 12 U.S.C. § 5390(c)(8)(D), including without limitation, any “swap” defined in section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1a(47)) and in any rules or regulations issued by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission pursuant to such section; any “security-based swap” defined in section 3(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C. § 78c(a)) and in any rules or regulations issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to such section; and any securities contract, commodity contract, forward contract, repurchase agreement, swap agreement, and any similar agreement that the FDIC determines by regulation, resolution, or order to be a qualified financial contract as provided in 12 U.S.C. § 5390(c)(8)(D).

(n) Records entity—

(1) Records entity means any financial company that:

(i) Is not an excluded entity as defined in § 148.2(f);

(ii) Is a party to an open QFC; and

(iii) (A) Is subject to a determination that the company shall be subject to Federal Reserve supervision and enhanced prudential standards pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 5323;

(B) Is subject to a designation as, or as likely to become, systemically important pursuant to 12 U.S.C. § 5463;

(C) Is identified as a global systemically important bank holding company pursuant to 12 CFR part 217;

(D)(1) Has total assets on a consolidated basis equal to or greater than $50 billion; and

(2) On a consolidated basis has:

(i) Total gross notional derivatives outstanding equal to or greater than $250 billion; or

(ii) Derivative liabilities equal to or greater than $3.5 billion; or

(E)(1) Is a member of a corporate group in which at least one financial company meets the criteria under one or more of paragraphs (n)(1)(iii)(A), (B), (C), or (D) of this section; and

(2)(i) Consolidates, is consolidated by, or is consolidated with such financial company on financial statements prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or other applicable accounting standards; or

(ii) For financial companies not subject to such principles or standards, would consolidate, be consolidated by, or be consolidated with such financial company if such principles or standards applied.

(2) A financial company that qualifies as a records entity pursuant to paragraph (n)(1)(iii)(D) will remain a records entity until one year after it ceases to meet the criteria set forth in paragraph (n)(1)(iii)(D) of this section.

(o) Secretary means the Secretary of the Treasury or the Secretary’s designee.

(p) Subsidiary means any company that is controlled by another company.

(q) Top-tier financial company means a financial company that is a member of a corporate group consisting of multiple records entities and that is not itself controlled by another financial company.

(r) Total assets means the total assets reported on the audited consolidated statement of financial condition of the applicable financial company for the most recent year end filed with its primary financial regulatory agency or agencies or, for financial companies not required to file such statements, the total assets shown on the consolidated balance sheet of the financial company for the most recent fiscal year end as prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or other applicable accounting standards.

(s) Total gross notional derivatives outstanding means the gross notional value of all derivative instruments that are outstanding as of the most recent fiscal year end, as recognized and measured in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles or other applicable accounting standards.