Bankers’ bank authorized — authority to hold shares of bankers’ bank.

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IA Code › Title XIII › Chapter 524 › Section 524.109

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(1) A state bank may be organized under this chapter as a bankers’ bank. The bankers’ bank is subject to all rights, privileges, duties, restrictions, penalties, liabilities, conditions, and limitations applicable to a state bank generally, except as limited in the definition of bankers’ bank contained in section 524.103. However, a bankers’ bank shall have the same powers as those granted by federal law and regulation to a national bank organized as a bankers’ bank under 12 U.S.C. §27.

(2) A state bank shall have the power to acquire and hold the shares in one or more bankers’ banks or bank holding companies which own a bankers’ bank in a total amount not to exceed five percent of the state bank’s aggregate capital. A state bank shall not own, directly or indirectly, more than five percent of any class of voting shares of a bankers’ bank.

85 Acts, ch 252, §33; 95 Acts, ch 148, §7; 2022 Acts, ch 1062, §10

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