---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 C.F.R. § 1271.15"
title: "12"
number: "1271.15"
heading: "Definitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/12/1271.15"
---

# §1271.15. Definitions.


As used in this subpart:

Confidential regulatory information means any record, data, or report, including but not limited to examination reports, or any part thereof, that is non-public, privileged or otherwise not intended for public disclosure which is in the possession or control of a financial regulatory agency and which contains information regarding members of a Bank or financial institutions with which a Bank has had or contemplates having transactions under the Bank Act.

Financial regulatory agency means any of the following:

- (1) The Department of the Treasury, including the Comptroller of the Currency;
- (2) The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;
- (3) The National Credit Union Administration; or
- (4) **The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.** Third party means any person or entity except a director, officer, employee or agent of either:
- (1) A Bank in possession of any particular confidential regulatory information; or
- (2) The financial regulatory agency that supplied the particular confidential regulatory information to such Bank.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 12 U.S.C. 1430, 1431, 1432, 1441(b)(8), (c), (j), 1442, 4511(b), 4513(a), 4526.

### Source

Source: 78 FR 2324, Jan. 11, 2013, unless otherwise noted.