§ 337.5 Exemption.

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Title 12 CFR: Banks and Banking › Chapter III: FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION › Part 337: UNSAFE AND UNSOUND BANKING PRACTICES › § 337.5: § 337.5 Exemption.

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Check guaranty card programs, customer-sponsored credit card programs, and similar arrangements in which a bank undertakes to guarantee the obligations of individuals who are its retail banking deposit customers are exempted from § 337.2:

Provided, however,

That the bank establishes the creditworthiness of the individual before undertaking to guarantee his/her obligations and that any such arrangement to which a bank's principal shareholders, directors, or executive officers are a party be in compliance with applicable provisions of Federal Reserve Regulation O (12 CFR part 215).

[50 FR 10495, Mar. 15, 1985]

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