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Report of deposits and vault cash, U.S. branches and agencies of foreign banks (FR 2900)

A regulatory return listed by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board), United States.

Collects selected deposits and vault cash. The Board builds the U.S. monetary aggregates mainly from these data, and uses them for its yearly indexing of two amounts under section 19(b) of the Federal Reserve Act: the reserve requirement exemption amount and the low reserve tranche. Source

Official title: Report of Deposits and Vault Cash

The facts

Who files
U.S. branches and agencies of foreign (non-U.S.) banks file this variant, regardless of the level of their deposits, per the FR 2900 instructions' Introduction. The instructions' own 'A. Who Must Report' list (shared wording across all four FR 2900 variants) does not separately name branches and agencies of foreign banks; it lists only Edge Act and agreement corporations (regardless of size) and other depository institutions above the $1.4 billion threshold. This file records the mismatch between the Introduction and the 'Who Must Report' list as a gap rather than guessing which prevails. Source
How often
Weekly. Each weekly report gives daily figures for a reporting week that runs from Tuesday to the following Monday. Quarterly filing stopped after the report as of 21 December 2020. Source
Deadline
Not stated on the Board's report page or in the FR 2900 instructions (effective June 2024); no filing-deadline section was found in either document. Source
Format
Other. Filing channel and file format not stated on the Board's report page or in the FR 2900 instructions (effective June 2024). Source
How it is filed
Filing routes recorded for the Federal Reserve Board: Reporting Central; Structure Central. See how firms file with the Federal Reserve Board.
Status
In force
Legal basis
Group
Deposits and reserves

Templates (6)

The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the Federal Reserve Board's code in brackets.

  • Demand deposits due to the public (A.1)
  • Other liquid deposits (A.2)
  • Cash items in process of collection (deducted from liquid deposits) (B.1)
  • Small time deposits (balances under $100,000) (C.1)
  • Vault cash (D.1)
  • Reservable liabilities, including net transaction accounts (E.1.a); reported once a year, for June only (E.1)

Six line items on the current form (reduced from 12 items, effective the report date of April 12, 2021). Source

Validation rules

No published validation rules were found for this return. The 'legitimate differences' documents compare FR 2900 items with the filer's quarterly condition report in prose, for staff-led 'interseries editing'; this is not a published, machine-readable rule set. Source

Public data

Published only added up across firms. Aggregate data are published in the Board's weekly H.6 'Money Stock Measures' statistical release. Microdata are confidential. Source

Where it is published

  • H.6 Money Stock Measures

    Added up across firms · HTML statistical release, with series also downloadable as structured data files through the Board's Data Download Program (https://www.federalreserve.gov/datadownload).

    The Board's weekly statistical release of the monetary aggregates (M1, M2), built in part from the FR 2900 family and (historically) the FR 2051a. Published weekly; series are also downloadable in bulk through the Board's Data Download Program. Source

Official documents (4)

The Federal Reserve Board's own files, with the size and SHA-256 fingerprint of each as downloaded on 13 November 2026, so anyone can tell whether a copy is the same version.

Sources

Every page and document this return's facts were read from.

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Last checked 13 November 2026.