Supervision and regulation staff use the data to determine the degree of risk in bank portfolios and the effect adverse developments in particular countries may have on banks or the U.S. banking system. The report was initiated in 1977 as the FR 2036 report and was used to collect data on the distribution, by country, of claims on foreigners held by U.S. banks and bank holding companies. The FDIC and OCC collected similar information from institutions under their supervision. It was revised in March 1986 to provide more detail on guaranteed claims.
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