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Ready Reserve Line of Credit

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I am looking over some of the new TIL disclosure requirements and have a question regarding our Ready Reserve line of credit accounts. We offer a Ready Reserve line of credit attached to DDA accounts that are treated basically as loans (not as the "bounce protection" products talked about recently). Are we subject to the new TIL disclosure requirements? (Prompted by Bankruptcy reform which includes a warning about making only the minimum payment and also provides 2 examples based on whether the minimum balance is 4% more or less of the minimum balance.) Also, it mentions making this information available by telephone. We are a small community bank, and when customers call they talk to a live person. Are we required to disclose these minimum payment requirements in some type of phone recording? Is it correct that this requirement applies to HELOCs? Will it apply to our overdraft Ready Reserves? (FYI...on these RR, we require 5% of the balance payment per statement cycle).
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From what I've been able to find, there are no final provisions in place in Reg Z at this point to implement this. There was a second ANPR issued in October, 2005 with a comment period through December 15, 2005 that solicited specific input including whether certain types of open-end accounts should be exempted from the minimum payment disclosure requirements. As of yet, I don't believe those rules have been finalized. Additionally, in that ANPR, the FED said that the new disclosure rules would not go into effect for at least 12 months following the publishing of that rule. So I think we still have plenty of time to sort all this out and we'll know much more once the final rules are published.

First published on BankersOnline.com 4/17/06

First published on 04/17/2006

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