(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, any secured claim that a federal home loan bank has on an insurer who is subject to a delinquency proceeding under this chapter is governed exclusively by this section.
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 56-9-339

  • Delinquency proceeding: means any proceeding instituted against an insurer for the purpose of liquidating, rehabilitating, reorganizing or conserving the insurer, and any summary proceeding under §. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Federal home loan bank: means an institution chartered under the Federal Home Loan Bank Act ( 12 U. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Insurer: means any person who has done, purports to do, is doing or is licensed to do an insurance business, and is or has been subject to the authority of, or to liquidation, rehabilitation, reorganization, supervision, or conservation by, any insurance commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Receiver: means receiver, liquidator, rehabilitator or conservator as the context requires. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Secured claim: means any claim secured by mortgage, trust deed, pledge, deposit as security, escrow, or otherwise, but not including special deposit claims or claims against general assets. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • State: means any state, district or territory of the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
  • Transfer: includes the sale and every other and different mode, direct or indirect, of disposing of or of parting with property or with an interest therein, or with the possession thereof or of fixing a lien upon property or upon an interest therein, absolutely or conditionally, voluntarily, by or without judicial proceedings. See Tennessee Code 56-9-103
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a receiver shall not void a redemption or repurchase of any stock or equity securities made by a federal home loan bank within four (4) months of the commencement of the delinquency proceedings or that received prior approval of the receiver. However, a transfer is voidable if the transfer is made with the actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud the insurer member, the receiver for the insurer member, existing creditors, or future creditors.
(c) If a federal home loan bank exercises its rights regarding collateral pledged by an insurer member who is subject to a delinquency proceeding, then the federal home loan bank shall repurchase any capital stock that is in excess of the amount of federal home loan bank stock that the insurer member is required to hold as a minimum investment, to the extent the federal home loan bank in good faith determines the repurchase to be permissible under applicable laws, regulations, regulatory obligations, and the federal home loan bank’s capital plan, and consistent with the federal home loan bank’s current capital stock practices applicable to its entire membership.
(d) Following the appointment of a receiver for an insurer member, the federal home loan bank, within ten (10) business days after a request made by the receiver, shall provide a process and establish timelines for the:

(1) Release of collateral that exceeds the lendable collateral value, as determined pursuant to the advance agreement with the federal home loan bank, required to support secured obligations remaining after any repayment of advances;
(2) Release of any of the insurer member’s collateral remaining in the federal home loan bank’s possession following repayment in full of all outstanding secured obligations of the insurer member;
(3) Payment of fees owed by the insurer member and the operation of deposits and other accounts of the insurer member with the federal home loan bank; and
(4) Possible redemption or repurchase of federal home loan bank stock or excess stock of any class that an insurer member is required to own.
(e) Upon request from the receiver for an insurer member, the federal home loan bank shall provide any available options that an insurer member may exercise to renew or restructure an advance to defer associated prepayment fees, subject to the following:

(1) Market conditions;
(2) The terms of the advances outstanding to the insurer member;
(3) The applicable policies of the federal home loan bank; and
(4) Compliance with the Federal Home Loan Bank Act (12 U.S.C. § 1421 et seq.) and corresponding regulations.
(f) After the tenth day following the commencement of a delinquency proceeding in this state involving an insurer member of the federal home loan bank, the federal home loan bank must not be stayed or prohibited from exercising its rights regarding collateral pledged by that insurer member.
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