---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 286d"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "286d"
heading: "Federal Reserve banks as depositories"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/286d"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc."
  - "Subchapter XV — International Monetary Fund and Bank for Reconstruction and Development"
---

# §286d. Federal Reserve banks as depositories


Any Federal Reserve bank which is requested to do so by the Fund or the Bank shall act as its depository or as its fiscal agent, and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System shall supervise and direct the carrying out of these functions by the Federal Reserve banks.


## Source credit

(July 31, 1945, ch. 339, § 6, 59 Stat. 514.)