Effective with the release dated January 16, 2015, several changes will be made to line items shown on the H.8 release.
These changes relate to the Federal Reserve Board's notice published in the Federal Register, 79 FR 57101 on September 24, 2014.
The following line items will be added to the release:
1. Current line item 14, Commercial real estate loans, will be disaggregated into four components: (a) Construction and land development loans; (b) Loans secured by farmland; (c) Loans secured by multifamily properties; and (d) Loans secured by nonfarm nonresidential properties.
2. Current line item 17, Other consumer loans, will be subdivided into two items: (a) Automobile loans; and (b) All other consumer loans.
3. Current line item 20, All other loans and leases, will be split into two items: (a) Loans to nondepository financial institutions; and (b) Other loans not elsewhere classified.
4. A subcomponent of Memoranda line item 44, Net unrealized gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities, covering net unrealized gains (losses) on U.S. Treasury and agency securities, mortgage-backed securities, will be added.
5. Two Memoranda line items covering loans to businesses with original amounts of $1,000,000 or less will be added: (a) Loans secured by nonfarm nonresidential properties; and (a) Commercial and industrial loans to U.S. addressees.
The following line items will be discontinued:
1. Current line items 27 and 38, Derivatives with positive and negative fair values, will no longer be published. The amount of derivatives with positive and negative fair values will be reported as part of line item 26 and line item 37, respectively.
2. Memoranda line items 45, 46, 47, and 48, covering securitized consumer and real estate loans, will also be dropped.
The historical data for the discontinued items will remain available for download through the Federal Reserve Board's Data Download Program (DDP).
