Federal Reserve note - wikipedia Federal Reserve note This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( September 2013 ) 1914 $10 FRN, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. 1928 $100 FRN, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. 1934 $10,000 FRN, depicting Salmon P. Chase. Federal Reserve Notes, also United States banknotes or U.S. banknotes, are the banknotes currently used in the United States of America. Denominated in United States dollars, Federal Reserve Notes are printed by the United States Bureau of Engraving and Printing on paper made by Crane & Co. of Dalton, Massachusetts. Federal Reserve Notes are the only type of U.S. banknote currently produced. Federal Reserve Notes are authorized by Section 16 of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and are issued to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. The notes are then put into circulation by the Federal Reserve Banks, at which point they become liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks and obligations of the United States. Federal Reserve Notes are legal tender, with the words `` this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private '' printed on each note. They have replaced United States Notes, which were once issued by the Treasury Department. Federal Reserve Notes are backed by the assets of the Federal Reserve Banks, which serve as collateral under Section 16. These assets are generally Treasury securities which have been purchased by the Federal Reserve through its Federal Open Market Committee in a process called debt monetizing. This monetized debt can increase the money supply, either with the issuance of new Federal Reserve Notes or with the creation of debt money ( deposits ). This increase in the monetary base leads to a larger increase in the money supply through fractional - reserve banking as deposits are lent and re-deposited where they form the basis of further loans. Contents 1 History 2 Value 3 Large - size notes 3.1 Series 1914 3.2 Series 1918 4 Production and distribution 5 Nicknames 6 Criticisms 6.1 Security 6.2 Differentiation 6.2. 1 Suit by the blind over U.S. banknote design 7 Design regulations 8 Series detail 8.1 Series overview 8.2 Series 1914 ( District Seals ) 8.3 Series 1928 -- 1995 8.4 Series 1996 -- 2003 ( New Currency Design ) 8.5 Post-2004 redesigned series ( NextGen ) 9 See also 10 References 10.1 Bibliography 11 External links History Privately issued note, 1853 Prior to centralized banking, each commercial bank issued its own notes. The first institution with responsibilities of a central bank in the U.S. was the First Bank of the United States, chartered in 1791 by Alexander Hamilton. Its charter was not renewed in 1811. In 1816, the Second Bank of the United States was chartered ; its charter was not renewed in 1836, after President Andrew Jackson campaigned heavily for its disestablishment. From 1837 to 1862, in the Free Banking Era there was no formal central bank, and banks issued their own notes again. From 1862 to 1913, a system of national banks was instituted by the 1863 National Banking Act. The first printed notes were Series 1914. In 1928, cost - cutting measures were taken to reduce the note to the size it is today. Value The authority of the Federal Reserve Banks to issue notes comes from the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Legally, they are liabilities of the Federal Reserve Banks and obligations of the United States government. Although not issued by the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve Notes carry the ( engraved ) signature of the Treasurer of the United States and the United States Secretary of the Treasury. At the time of the Federal Reserve 's creation, the law provided for notes to be redeemed to the Treasury in gold or `` lawful money. '' The latter category was not explicitly defined, but included United States Notes, National Bank Notes, and certain other notes held by banks to meet reserve requirements, such as clearing certificates. The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 removed the gold obligation and authorized the Treasury to satisfy these redemption demands with current notes of equal face value ( effectively making change ). Under the Bretton Woods system, although citizens could not legally possess gold ( except as rare coins, jewelry, for industrial purposes and the like ), the federal government continued to maintain a stable international gold price. This system ended with the Nixon Shock of 1971, and starting in 1975 Americans were allowed to possess unlimited amounts of gold with its value dependent on the market price. Present - day Federal Reserve Notes are not backed by convertibility to any specific commodity, but only by the collateral assets that Federal Reserve Banks post in order to obtain them. Large - size notes Series 1914 FRN were the first of two large - size issues. Denominations were $5, $10, $20, $50, and $100 printed first with a red seal and then continued with a blue seal. Series 1918 notes were issued in $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 denominations. The latter two denominations exist only in institutional collections. Series 1914 and 1918 notes in the following two tables are from the National Numismatic Collection at the National Museum of American History ( Smithsonian Institution ). Large size notes represent the earlier types or series of U.S. banknotes. Their `` average '' dimension is ​ 7 ⁄ × ​ 3 ⁄ inches ( 187 × 79 mm ). Small size notes ( described as such due to their size relative to the earlier large size notes ) are an `` average '' ​ 6 ⁄ × ​ 2 ⁄ inches ( 156 × 67 mm ), the size of modern U.S. currency. `` Each measurement is ± 0.08 inches ( 2 mm ) to account for margins and cutting '' Series 1914 Denomination type set of 1914 Federal Reserve Notes Value Fr. Red Seal Blue Seal Portrait and engraving 5$5 832a 848 Abraham Lincoln 10 $10 894b 919a Andrew Jackson 20 $20 958a 1010 Grover Cleveland 50 $50 1019a 1053 Ulysses S. Grant 100 $100 1074a 1131 Benjamin Franklin Series 1918 Denomination type set of 1918 Federal Reserve Notes Value Fr. Image Portrait and engraving 500 $500 1132d John Marshall 1000 $1,000 1133d Alexander Hamilton 5000 $5,000 1134d James Madison 10000 $10,000 1135d Salmon P. Chase Production and distribution A commercial bank that maintains a reserve account with the Federal Reserve can obtain notes from the Federal Reserve Bank in its district whenever it wishes. The bank must pay the face value of the notes by debiting ( drawing down ) its reserve account. Smaller banks without a reserve account at the Federal Reserve can maintain their reserve accounts at larger `` correspondent banks '' which themselves maintain reserve accounts with the Federal Reserve. Federal Reserve Notes are printed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing ( BEP ), a bureau of the Department of the Treasury. When Federal Reserve Banks require additional notes for circulation, they must post collateral in the form of direct federal obligations, private bank obligations, or assets purchased through open market operations. If the notes are newly printed, they also pay the BEP for the cost of printing ( about 4 ¢ per note ). This differs from the issue of coins, which are purchased for their face value. A Federal Reserve Bank can retire notes that return from circulation, which entitles it to recover collateral that it posted for an earlier issue. Retired notes in good condition are held in the bank 's vault for future issues. Notes in poor condition are destroyed and replacements are ordered from the BEP. The Federal Reserve shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year. Federal Reserve notes, on average, remain in circulation for the following periods of time : Denomination $1 $5 $10 $20 $50 $100 Years in circulation 5.8 5.5 4.5 7.9 8.5 15.0 The Federal Reserve does not publish an average life span for the $2 bill. This is likely due to its treatment as a collector 's item by the general public ; it is, therefore, not subjected to normal circulation. Starting with the Series 1996 $100 note, bills $5 and above have a special letter in addition to the prefix letters which range from A-L. The first letter is A for series 1996 ; the first letter is B for series 1999 ; the first letter is C for series 2001 ; the first letter is D for series 2003 ; the first letter is F for series 2003A ; the first letter is H for series 2006 ; and the first letter is K for series 2006A. The Series 2004 $20, the first note in the second redesign, has kept the element of the special double prefix. The first letter is E for series 2004 ; the first letter is G for series 2004A ; the first letter is I for series 2006 ; the first letter is J for series 2009 ; the first letter is L for series 2009A ; and the first letter is M for series 2013. Federal Reserve Notes are made of 75 % cotton and 25 % linen fibers. Nicknames U.S. paper currency has had many nicknames and slang terms. The notes themselves are generally referred to as bills ( as in `` five - dollar bill '' ) and any combination of U.S. notes as bucks ( as in `` fifty bucks '' ), or, much less commonly, bones or beans. Notes can be referred to by the first or last name of the person on the portrait ( George for One Dollar, or even more popularly, `` Benjamins '' for $100 notes ). See tables below for nicknames for individual denomination Greenbacks, any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note ( from the green ink used on the back ). The Demand Notes issued in 1861 had green - inked backs, and the Federal Reserve Note of 1914 copied this pattern. `` dead presidents '', any amount in any denomination of Federal Reserve Note ( from the portrait of a U.S. president on most denominations ). Toms for the picture of Thomas Jefferson on the two - dollar bill. fin, finif ( from the Yiddish word for five ), or finski is a slang term for a five - dollar bill. sawbuck is a slang term for a ten - dollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral X. double sawbuck is slang term for a twenty - dollar bill, from the image of the Roman numeral XX, and in some cases can be used to denote a pair of ten - dollar bills, which would be double sawbucks, depending on the situation and type and amount of currency on hand. One hundred dollar bills are sometimes called `` Benjamins '' ( in reference to their portrait of Benjamin Franklin ) or C - Notes ( the letter `` C '' is the Roman numeral 100 ). One thousand dollars ( $1000 ) can be referenced as `` Large '', `` K '' ( short for `` kilo '' ), `` Grand '' or `` Stack '', and as a `` G '' ( short for `` grand '' ). In Raymond Chandler 's novel, The Long Goodbye, the protagonist Marlowe refers to a five thousand dollar bill as `` a portrait of Madison '', due to the president portrayed on the bill being James Madison. Fed Shreds is the nickname for paper money that the United States government finds unfit for circulation and consequently shreds. Many more slang terms refer to money in general ( green stamps, moolah, paper, bread, dough, do - re-mi, freight, loot, cheese, cake, stacks, greenmail, jack, rabbit, cabbage, pie, cheddar, scrilla, scratch, etc. ). Criticisms This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( May 2008 ) Security Despite the relatively late addition of color and other anti-counterfeiting features to U.S. currency, critics hold that it is still a straightforward matter to counterfeit these bills. They point out that the ability to reproduce color images is well within the capabilities of modern color printers, most of which are affordable to many consumers. These critics suggest that the Federal Reserve should incorporate holographic features, as are used in most other major currencies, such as the pound sterling, Canadian dollar and euro banknotes, which are more difficult and expensive to forge. Another robust technology, the polymer banknote, has been developed for the Australian dollar and adopted for the New Zealand dollar, Romanian leu, Papua New Guinea kina, Canadian dollar, and other circulating, as well as commemorative, banknotes of a number of other countries. Polymer banknotes are a deterrent to the counterfeiter, as they are much more difficult and time consuming to reproduce. They are said to be more secure, cleaner and more durable than paper notes. One major issue with implementing these or any new counterfeiting countermeasures, however, is that ( other than under Executive Order 6102 ) the United States has never demonetized or required a mandatory exchange of existing currency. Consequently, would - be counterfeiters can easily circumvent any new security features simply by counterfeiting older designs. U.S. currency does, however, bear several anti-counterfeiting features. Two of the most critical anti-counterfeiting features of U.S. currency are the paper and the ink. The composition of the paper is 75 percent cotton and 25 percent linen. The ink and paper combine to create a distinct texture, particularly as the currency is circulated. The paper and the ink alone have no effect on the value of the dollar until post print. These characteristics can be hard to duplicate without the proper equipment and materials. Furthermore, recent redesigns of the $5, $10, $20, and $50 notes have added EURion constellation patterns which can be used by scanning software to recognize banknotes and refuse to scan them. The differing sizes of other nations ' banknotes are a security feature that eliminates one form of counterfeiting to which U.S. currency is prone : Counterfeiters can simply bleach the ink off a low - denomination note, such as a $1 or $5 bill, and reprint it as a higher - value note, such as a $100 bill. To counter this, the U.S. government has included in all $5 and higher denominated notes since the 1990 series a vertical laminate strip imprinted with denomination information, which under ultraviolet light fluoresces a different color for each denomination ( $5 note : blue ; $10 note : orange ; $20 note : green ; $50 note : yellow ; $100 note : red ). According to the central banks, the number of counterfeited bank notes seized annually is about 10 in one million of real bank notes for the Swiss franc, of 50 in one million for the Euro, of 100 in one million for United States dollar and of 300 in one million for pound sterling. Differentiation Critics, such as the American Council of the Blind, note that U.S. bills are relatively hard to tell apart : they use very similar designs, they are printed in the same colors ( until the 2003 banknotes, in which a faint secondary color was added ), and they are all the same size. The American Council of the Blind has argued that American paper currency design should use increasing sizes according to value and / or raised or indented features to make the currency more usable by the vision - impaired, since the denominations can not currently be distinguished from one another non-visually. Use of Braille codes on currency is not considered a desirable solution because ( 1 ) these markings would only be useful to people who know how to read Braille, and ( 2 ) one Braille symbol can become confused with another if even one bump is rubbed off. Though some blind individuals say that they have no problems keeping track of their currency because they fold their bills in different ways or keep them in different places in their wallets, they nevertheless must rely on sighted people or currency - reading machines to determine the value of each bill before filing it away using the system of their choice. This means that no matter how organized they are, blind people still have to trust sighted people or machines each time they receive US banknotes. By contrast, other major currencies, such as the pound sterling and euro, feature notes of differing sizes : the size of the note increases with the denomination and different denominations are printed in different, contrasting colors. This is useful not only for the vision - impaired ; they nearly eliminate the risk that, for example, someone might fail to notice a high - value note among low - value ones. Multiple currency sizes were considered for U.S. currency, but makers of vending and change machines successfully argued that implementing such a wide range of sizes would greatly increase the cost and complexity of such machines. Similar arguments were unsuccessfully made in Europe prior to the introduction of multiple note sizes. Alongside the contrasting colors and increasing sizes, many other countries ' currencies contain tactile features missing from U.S. banknotes to assist the blind. For example, Canadian banknotes have a series of raised dots ( not Braille ) in the upper right corner to indicate denomination. Mexican peso banknotes also have raised patterns of dashed lines. The Indian rupee has raised patterns of different shapes printed for various denominations on the left of the watermark window ( 20 : vertical rectangle ; 50 : square ; 100 : triangle ; 500 : circle ; 1,000 : diamond ). Suit by the Blind over U.S. banknote design Ruling on a lawsuit filed in 2002 ( American Council of the Blind v. Paulson ), on November 28, 2006, U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled that the American bills gave an undue burden to the blind and denied them `` meaningful access '' to the U.S. currency system. In his ruling, Robertson noted that the United States was the only nation out of 180 issuing paper currency that printed bills that were identical in size and color in all their denominations and that the successful use of such features as varying sizes, raised lettering and tiny perforations used by other nations is evidence that the ordered changes are feasible. The plaintiff 's attorney was quoted as saying `` It 's just frankly unfair that blind people should have to rely on the good faith of people they have never met in knowing whether they 've been given the correct change. '' Government attorneys estimated that the cost of such a change ranges from $75 million in equipment upgrades and $9 million annual expenses for punching holes in bills to $178 million in one - time charges and $50 million annual expenses for printing bills of varying sizes. Robertson accepted the plaintiff 's argument that current practice violates Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. The judge ordered the Treasury Department to begin working on a redesign within 30 days, but the Treasury appealed the decision. On May 20, 2008, in a 2 - to - 1 decision, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the earlier ruling, pointing out that the cost estimates were inflated and that the burdens on blind and visually impaired currency users had not been adequately addressed. On October 3, 2008, on remand from the D.C. Circuit, D.C. District Court Judge Robertson granted the injunction. As a result of the court 's injunction, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is planning to implement a raised tactile feature in the next redesign of each note, except the $1 bill ( which is not allowed to be redesigned, Pub. L. 114 -- 113, 129 Stat. 2431, enacted December 18, 2015 ), though the version of the $100 bill already is in progress. It also plans larger, higher - contrast numerals, more color differences, and distribution of currency readers to assist the visually impaired during the transition period. The Bureau received a comprehensive study on accessibility options in July 2009, and solicited public comments from May to August 2010. Design regulations There are a few regulations to which the U.S. Treasury must adhere when redesigning banknotes. The national motto `` In God We Trust '' must appear on all U.S. currency and coins. Though the motto had periodically appeared on coins since 1865, it did not appear on currency ( other than interest - bearing notes in 1861 ) until a law passed in 1956 required it. It began to appear on Federal Reserve Notes delivered from 1964 to 1966, depending on denomination. The portraits appearing on the U.S. currency can feature only people who have died, whose names should be included below each of the portraits. Since the standardization of the bills in 1928, the Department of the Treasury has chosen to feature the same portraits on the bills. These portraits were decided upon in 1929 by a committee appointed by the Treasury. Originally, the committee had decided to feature U.S. presidents because they were more familiar to the public than other potential candidates. The Treasury altered this decision, however, to include three statesmen who were also well - known to the public : Alexander Hamilton ( the first Secretary of the Treasury who appears on the $10 bill ), Salmon P. Chase ( the Secretary of the Treasury during the American Civil War who appeared on the now obsolete $10,000 bill ), and Benjamin Franklin ( a signer of the Declaration of Independence and of the Constitution, who appears on the $100 bill ). In 2016, the Treasury announced a number of design changes to the $5, $10 and $20 bills ; to be introduced over the next ten years. The redesigns include : The back of the $5 bill will be changed to showcase historical events at the pictured Lincoln Memorial by adding portraits of Marian Anderson ( due to her famous performance there after being barred from Constitution Hall because of her race ), Martin Luther King Jr. ( due to his famous I Have A Dream speech ), and Eleanor Roosevelt ( who arranged Anderson 's performance ). The back of the $10 bill will be changed to show a 1913 march for women 's suffrage in the United States, plus portraits of Sojourner Truth, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, Alice Paul, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. On the $20 bill, Andrew Jackson will move to the back ( reduced in size, alongside the White House ) and Harriet Tubman will appear on the front. After an unsuccessful attempt in the proposed Legal Tender Modernization Act of 2001, the Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 required that none of the funds set aside for either the Treasury or the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may be used to redesign the $1 bill. This is because any change would affect vending machines and the risk of counterfeiting is low for this small bill. This superseded the Federal Reserve Act ( Section 16, Paragraph 8 ) which gives the Treasury permission to redesign any banknote to prevent counterfeiting. Series detail Series overview Large - size notes Series Denominations Obligation clause 1914 $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 `` This note is receivable by all national and member banks and Federal Reserve Banks and for all taxes, customs and other public dues. It is redeemable in gold on demand at the Treasury Department of the United States in the city of Washington, District of Columbia or in gold or lawful money at any Federal Reserve Bank. '' 1918 $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 Small - size notes Series Denominations Obligation clause Remarks 1928 $5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500, $1000, $5000, $10,000 `` Redeemable in gold on demand at the United States Treasury, or in gold or lawful money at any Federal Reserve Bank '' Branch ID in numerals 1934 `` This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private, and is redeemable in lawful money at the United States Treasury, or at any Federal Reserve Bank '' Branch ID in letters ; during the Great Depression 1950 $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 Slight design changes : branch logo ; placements of signatures, `` Series xxxx '', and `` Washington, D.C. '', 1963, 1963A, 1963B, 1969, 1969A, 1969B, 1969C, 1974 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 `` This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private '' First $1 FRN ; `` Will pay to the bearer on demand '' removed ; Seal in Latin replaced by seal in English in 1969 1976 $2 First $2 FRN, Bicentennial Series Denominations Obligation clause 1977 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 `` This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private '' 1977A $1, $5, $10, $20 1981, 1981A, 1985 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 $1, $5, $50, $100 1988A $1, $5, $10, $20 $10, $20, $50, $100 1993 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 1995 $1, $2, $5, $10, $20 Large - portrait ( $1 and $2 remain small - portrait ) $20, $50, $100 1999 $1, $5, $10, $20, $100 2001 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 2003 $1, $2, $5, $10, $100 2003A $1, $2, $5, $100 2006 $5, $100 2006A $100 Color notes ( $1 and $2 remain unchanged ) $20, $50 2004A $10, $20, $50 2006 $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 2009 $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 2009A $100 2013 $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 2017 $1 Series 1914 ( District Seals ) Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Federal Reserve Bank of New York Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Series 1928 -- 1995 Small size notes Image Value Description Date of Obverse Reverse Obverse Reverse first series last series $1 George Washington Great Seal of the United States 1963 current ( 2017 ) $2 Thomas Jefferson Trumbull 's Declaration of Independence 1976 current ( 2013 ) $5 Abraham Lincoln Lincoln Memorial 1928 1995 $10 Alexander Hamilton Treasury Department Building $20 Andrew Jackson White House $50 Ulysses S. Grant United States Capitol 1993 $100 Benjamin Franklin Independence Hall $500 William McKinley `` Five Hundred Dollars '' 1934 $1000 Grover Cleveland `` One Thousand Dollars '' $5000 James Madison `` Five Thousand Dollars '' $10,000 Salmon P. Chase `` Ten Thousand Dollars '' Series 1996 -- 2003 ( new currency design ) Small size notes Image Value Description series Obverse Reverse Obverse Reverse first last $5 As small - size, small - portrait notes 1999 2006 $10 2003 $20 2001 $50 $100 2006A ( See Note, below ) Note : The series 2006A was produced from 2011 to 2013 due to issues with the printing process for the colorized ( NextGen ) $100 notes. Post-2004 redesigned series ( NextGen ) Beginning in 2003, the Federal Reserve introduced a new series of bills, featuring images of national symbols of freedom. The new $20 bill was first issued on October 9, 2003 ; the new $50 on September 28, 2004 ; the new $10 bill on March 2, 2006 ; the new $5 bill on March 13, 2008 ; the new $100 bill on October 8, 2013. The one and two dollar bills still remain small portrait, unchanged, and not watermarked. Color series Images Value Background color Fluorescent strip color Description Date of Obverse Reverse Obverse Reverse Watermark first series Issue $5 Purple Blue President Abraham Lincoln ; Great Seal of the United States Lincoln Memorial Two watermarks of the number `` 5 '' 2006 March 13, 2008 $10 Orange Orange Secretary Alexander Hamilton ; The phrase `` We the People '' from the United States Constitution and the torch of the Statue of Liberty Treasury Building Alexander Hamilton 2004 A March 2, 2006 $20 Green Green President Andrew Jackson ; Eagle White House Andrew Jackson October 9, 2003 $50 Pink Yellow President Ulysses S. Grant ; Flag of the United States United States Capitol Ulysses S. Grant September 28, 2004 $100 Teal Pink Benjamin Franklin ; Declaration of Independence Independence Hall Benjamin Franklin 2009A ( See Note, below ) October 8, 2013 These images are to scale at 0.7 pixels per millimeter. For table standards, see the banknote specification table. All small - sized bills measure 6.14 in × 2.61 in ( 156 mm × 66 mm ), with thickness of 0.0043 in ( 0.11 mm ). Note : While the series 2009A was the first series of these $100 bills released for circulation, the first printing was series 2009 printed in 2010 and 2011. These were withheld from circulation due to issues with the printing process and none were released until 2016. See also Numismatics portal Bureau of Engraving and Printing Coins of the United States dollar United States one - dollar bill References This article incorporates text from the website of the US Treasury, which is in the public domain. Jump up ^ O'Sullivan, Arthur ; Sheffrin, Steven M. ( 2003 ). Economics : Principles in Action. 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Question: who issues the paper money in circulation today
Answer: issued to the Federal Reserve Banks at the discretion of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System