12 CFR 615.5295
§ 615.5295 Payment of dividends.
United States · 12 CFR — Banks and Banking · Status: effective
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- 12 CFR 615.5295, § 615.5295 Payment of dividends, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/47869
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(a) The board of directors of a bank, association, or service corporation must declare a dividend on a class of stock before any dividends may be paid to stockholders.
(b) No bank, association, or service corporation may declare or pay any dividend unless after declaration or payment of the dividend the institution would continue to meet its regulatory capital standards under this part.
(c) Each System bank, association, and service corporation must exclude any accrued but unpaid dividends from regulatory capital computations under this part and part 628 of this chapter.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.