Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Footnotes

1. Data include the following types of institutions in the fifty states and the District of Columbia: domestically chartered commercial banks; U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks; and Edge Act and agreement corporations. The latter two categories together are referred to on this release as “foreign-related institutions.” Data exclude International Banking Facilities. Weekly levels are Wednesday values; monthly levels are pro rata averages of Wednesday values. The data for domestically chartered commercial banks and U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks are estimated by benchmarking weekly data provided by a sample of banks to quarter-end reports of condition (Call Reports). Large domestically chartered commercial banks are defined as the top 25 domestically chartered commercial banks, ranked by domestic assets as of the previous commercial bank Call Report to which the H.8 release data have been benchmarked. Small domestically chartered commercial banks are defined as all domestically chartered commercial banks not included in the top 25. The data for large and small domestically chartered banks are adjusted to remove the estimated effects of mergers and panel shifts between these two bank groups. (See www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h8/about.htm for more information on how these data were constructed.)
2. Includes all securities, whether held-to-maturity reported at amortized cost; available-for-sale reported at fair value; held as trading assets, also reported at fair value; or equity securities with readily determinable fair values not held for trading. Excludes all non-security trading assets, such as derivatives with a positive fair value (included in line 32) or loans held in trading accounts (included in line 9).
3. Treasury securities are liabilities of the U.S. government. Agency securities are liabilities of U.S. government agencies and U.S. government-sponsored enterprises.
4. Includes mortgage-backed securities (MBS) issued by U.S. government agencies or by U.S. government-sponsored enterprises such as the Government National Mortgage Association (GNMA), the Federal National Mortgage Association (FNMA), or the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC). Includes pass-through securities, collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs), real estate mortgage investment conduits (REMICs), CMO and REMIC residuals, and stripped MBS.
5. Includes U.S. Treasury securities and U.S. government agency obligations other than MBS.
6. Includes MBS not issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government.
7. Includes securities issued by states and political subdivisions in the United States, asset-backed securities (ABS), other domestic and foreign debt securities, and investments in mutual funds and other equity securities with readily determinable fair values.
8. Includes the allowance for loan and lease losses (line 28) and all loans held in trading accounts under a fair value option. Excludes total federal funds sold and reverse RPs (line 30), loans made to commercial banks (line 31), and unearned income.
9. Includes first and junior liens on closed-end loans secured by 1–4 family residential properties.
10. Includes construction, land development, and other land loans.
11. Includes loans secured by farmland, including grazing and pastureland.
12. Includes loans secured by multifamily (5 or more) residential properties, including apartment buildings.
13. Includes loans secured by nonfarm nonresidential properties, both owner-occupied and other nonfarm nonresidential properties.
14. Includes loans for purchasing new and used passenger cars and other vehicles. Includes direct and indirect consumer automobile loans as well as retail installment sales paper purchased from auto dealers.
15. Includes student loans, loans for medical expenses and vacations, and loans for other personal expenditures.
16. Foreign-related institutions do not report consumer loans separately. These loans are included in all other loans not elsewhere classified (line 27).
17. Includes loans to real estate investment trusts, insurance companies, holding companies of other depository institutions, finance companies, mortgage finance companies, factors, federally-sponsored lending agencies, investment banks, banks’ own trust departments, and other nondepository financial intermediaries.
18. Includes loans for purchasing or carrying securities, loans to finance agricultural production, loans to foreign governments and foreign banks, obligations of states and political subdivisions, loans to nonbank depository institutions, unplanned overdrafts, loans not elsewhere classified, and lease financing receivables.
19. Foreign-related institutions include consumer loans in all other loans not elsewhere classified (line 27), rather than reporting consumer loans separately.
20. Beginning April 6, 2022, foreign-related institutions no longer report the allowance for loan and lease losses separately. Any such allowances are included in net due to related foreign offices (line 38).
21. Includes vault cash, cash items in process of collection, balances due from depository institutions, and balances due from Federal Reserve Banks.
22. Includes total federal funds sold to, and reverse RPs with, commercial banks, brokers and dealers, and others, including the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLB).
23. Excludes loans secured by real estate, which are included in line 11.
24. Includes other real estate owned; premises and fixed assets; investments in unconsolidated subsidiaries; intangible assets (including goodwill); direct and indirect investments in real estate ventures; accounts receivable; derivative contracts (interest rate, foreign exchange rate, other commodity and equity contracts) with a positive fair value, as determined under FASB Interpretation No. 39 (FIN 39); and other assets. Excludes the due-from position with related foreign offices which is included in line 38. Excludes most securities held in trading accounts (included in line 2); trading account securities at some smaller domestically chartered commercial banks are included in this item.
25. Includes subordinated notes and debentures; net deferred tax liabilities; interest and other expenses accrued and unpaid; accounts payable; liabilities for short positions; derivative contracts with a negative fair value, as determined under FASB Interpretation No. 39 (FIN 39); other trading liabilities to which fair value accounting has been applied; and other liabilities.
26. This balancing item is not intended as a measure of equity capital for use in capital adequacy analysis. On a seasonally adjusted basis this item reflects any differences in the seasonal patterns estimated for total assets and total liabilities.