5-13B-111
Section 5-13B-111 Asset maintenance. (a) Each foreign bank which is licensed to establish and maintain an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency shall hold in this state currency, bonds, notes, debentures, drafts, bills of exchange, or other evidences of indebtedness, including loan participation agreements or certificates, or other obligations payable in the United States or in United States funds or, with the prior approval of the superintendent, in funds freely convertible into United States funds, or such other assets as the superintendent shall by regulation or order permit, in an amount which shall bear such relationship as the superintendent shall by regulation or order prescribe to liabilities of such foreign bank payable at or through its Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency, including acceptances, but excluding amounts due and other liabilities to other offices, agencies, or branches of, and wholly owned, except for a nominal number of directors' shares,...
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5-13B-110
Section 5-13B-110 Pledge of assets. (a) Each foreign bank which is licensed to establish and maintain an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency shall keep on deposit, in accordance with such regulations or orders as the superintendent shall promulgate, with such unaffiliated Alabama banks as such foreign bank may designate and the superintendent may approve, interest-bearing stocks and bonds, notes, debentures, or other obligations of the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or guaranteed by the United States, or of this state, or of a city, county, town, village, school district, or instrumentality of this state or guaranteed by this state, or dollar deposits, or obligations of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, or obligations issued by the InterAmerican Development Bank, or obligations of the Asian Development Bank, or obligations issued by the African Development Bank, or such other assets as the superintendent shall by regulation or...
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5-13B-131
Section 5-13B-131 Establishment of interstate branches in this state by out-of-state foreign banks. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), an out-of-state foreign bank may establish an interstate Alabama state branch in the same manner, including by merger or other transactions under Section 44 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and comparable provisions of the laws of this state, with Alabama banks or other institutions, as, and subject generally to the same criteria, standards, conditions, requirements, and procedures applicable to the establishment of interstate branches in this state by, an out-of-state bank having the same home state in the United States, notwithstanding any provision of the laws or regulations of this state to the contrary. (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), the superintendent: (1) Shall apply to the establishment of an initial interstate Alabama state branch, and subsequent intrastate Alabama branches, of any out-of-state foreign bank...
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5-13B-40
Section 5-13B-40 Purpose. (a) This article is intended generally to provide for state regulation of the participation by foreign banks in the financial markets of this state. (b) Consistent with the federal International Banking Act, the Bank Holding Company Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, and the Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act, this article is intended specifically: (1) To authorize banking activities and operations, under state licenses issued by the superintendent, of direct branch and agency offices in this state of foreign banks, generally under terms and conditions not less favorable than the terms and conditions under which such activities and operations may be conducted by federal branch or agency offices of foreign banks in the United States, and to set forth a statutory framework for the licensing, regulation and supervision of such state-licensed offices of foreign banks by the superintendent to assure the safe and sound operation of such offices...
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5-13B-82
Section 5-13B-82 Application to establish and maintain a branch or agency - Contents. (a) A foreign bank, in order to procure a license under this article to establish and maintain an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency shall submit an application to the superintendent. Such application shall contain: (1) The same information as required by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for an application to establish a branch or agency, as the case may be, in the United States; and (2) Such additional information as the superintendent may require by regulation or order. (b) In addition to the information required to be included in an application for a license to establish and maintain an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency listed in subsection (a), the superintendent may as he or she deems necessary or appropriate require a foreign bank to include as part of such an application an instrument irrevocably appointing the superintendent and his or her successors in...
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5-13B-86
Section 5-13B-86 Powers of branch and agency. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this division or in regulations or orders adopted by the superintendent, and notwithstanding any other law or regulation of this state to the contrary, operations of a foreign bank at an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency shall be conducted with the same rights, privileges, and powers as an Alabama state bank at the same location, including, but not limited to, the eligibility to exercise fiduciary or trust powers, and shall be subject to all the same duties, restrictions, penalties, liabilities, conditions, and limitations that would apply under the laws of this state to an Alabama state bank doing business at the same location. (b) Among other exceptions to the provisions of subsection (a) that may be required or authorized by the superintendent pursuant to the provisions of this division: (1) An Alabama state branch that was not grandfathered as an "insured branch" within the...
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5-13B-115
Section 5-13B-115 Seizure of foreign bank's property and business; liquidation. (a) If the superintendent finds that any of the factors set forth in Section 5-13B-113 are true with respect to any foreign bank which is licensed to establish and maintain an Alabama state branch or Alabama state agency and that it is necessary for the protection of the interests of the creditors of such foreign bank's business in this state or for the protection of the public interest that he or she take immediate possession of the property and business of the foreign bank, the superintendent may by order forthwith take possession of the property and business of the foreign bank in this state and retain possession until the foreign bank resumes business in this state or is finally liquidated. The foreign bank may, with the consent of the superintendent, resume business in this state upon such conditions as the superintendent may prescribe by regulation or order. (b) At any time within 10 days after the...
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5-3A-6
Section 5-3A-6 Examination of witnesses and production of documents; penalties for false entry or statement; proceedings against former employees. (a) For purposes of this section, a bank holding company is a holding company organized under the laws of Alabama or another state in the United States that directly owns a majority of the voting securities of an Alabama state bank. (b) The superintendent and every examiner acting under the superintendent may administer oaths and may examine under oath any person whose testimony may be required on the examination of any bank or any bank holding company, on the examination of any affiliate of a bank, or on the examination of any agency of any foreign bank and shall have authority and power to compel the appearance and attendance of any such person or the production of any records and documents of any bank, any bank holding company, any affiliate of a bank, or any agency of a foreign bank for the purpose of any examination and attendance or...
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5-13B-41
Section 5-13B-41 Definitions. For purposes of this article: (a) The term "bank" means any bank as defined in: Section 2(c) of the Bank Holding Company Act (12 U.S.C. §1841(c)); Section 3(a)(1) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U.S.C. §1813(a)(1)), other than a branch of a foreign bank; or, as the context may require, in Chapter 5A, Title 5. The term "bank" as used in this article shall not in any event include a foreign bank or a branch or agency of a foreign bank. (b) The term "foreign bank" means any company organized under the laws of a foreign country, a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, or the Virgin Islands, that engages directly in the business of banking. The term includes foreign commercial banks, foreign merchant banks, and other foreign institutions that engage in banking activities usual in connection with the business of banking in the countries where such foreign institutions are organized or operating. (c) The term "out-of-state...
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5-5A-20
Section 5-5A-20 Branch banks; commercial affiliates. (a) Alabama banks may establish a branch or office for the transaction of the banking business within the State of Alabama upon prior approval of the superintendent. Alabama banks may establish a branch or office for the transaction of a banking business in any state other than Alabama, any territory of the United States, or in any foreign country in accordance with the provisions of federal law, the laws of the other state, territory, or foreign country and upon the prior approval of the superintendent. (b) All laws or parts of laws, whether general, local, or general laws of local applications, which conflict with this section are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict. (c) Neither an Alabama bank nor an out-of-state bank may establish or maintain a branch or office for the transaction of the banking business in Alabama on the premises of a commercial affiliate of the bank. For purposes of this section, commercial affiliate...
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