2025 Session Last amended: 1997 session

§ 53.07 — Reserve

Plain-Language Summary

This section requires an industrial loan and thrift company to keep reserves of liquid assets at a level reasonably needed to meet anticipated withdrawals, commitments, and loan demand. Eligible reserves include cash, cash items in process of collection, short-term obligations of or demand balances with other insured U.S. financial institutions, and short-term obligations of or guaranteed by the United States, with obligations counting as short term only if they mature within one year. The commissioner may set the required reserve amount for an individual company based on examination findings or other reports. Until the company obtains acceptable insurance or guarantee of accounts, it must keep a minimum reserve of at least ten percent against its certificates of indebtedness, savings accounts, and savings deposits: three percent in cash and seven percent in bonds eligible for savings-bank investment.

Practical Notes
The commissioner can tailor a company’s required reserves to its own examination history and enforce them under sections 46.24 and 46.30 to 46.33. The ten percent temporary minimum (three percent cash, seven percent eligible bonds) applies only until the company secures insurance or guarantee of accounts acceptable to the commissioner.