The facts
- Who files
- Bank holding companies, savings and loan holding companies, U.S. intermediate holding companies and securities holding companies with total consolidated assets of $3 billion or more, and some smaller ones that meet other criteria. Only the top-tier holding company in a group files. Source
- How often
- Quarterly, as of the last calendar day of the quarter. Source
- Deadline
- Due 40 calendar days after the quarter-ends of 31 March, 30 June and 30 September, and 45 calendar days after 31 December. If that day is a weekend or holiday, the report is due on the next business day. The district Reserve Bank must receive it by 5:00 p.m. on the due date. Source
- Format
- Other. All holding companies must submit their completed reports electronically, through the Reporting Central system; the instructions do not state a file format (XBRL, XML or CSV) for this submission. 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 forceThe FR Y-9C form on file carries an OMB approval that expires December 31, 2028. Source
- Legal basis
- Group
- Financial statements (bank holding companies)
Templates (22)
The tables and forms inside the return. Plain name first, the Federal Reserve Board's code in brackets.
- Consolidated balance sheet (HC)
- Securities (HC-B)
- Loans and lease financing receivables (HC-C)
- Trading assets and liabilities (HC-D)
- Deposit liabilities (HC-E)
- Other assets (HC-F)
- Other liabilities (HC-G)
- Interest sensitivity (HC-H)
- Insurance-related underwriting activities (including reinsurance) (HC-I)
- Quarterly averages (HC-K)
- Derivatives and off-balance-sheet items (HC-L)
- Memoranda (HC-M)
- Past due and nonaccrual loans, leases, and other assets (HC-N)
- 1-4 family residential mortgage banking activities in domestic offices (HC-P)
- Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis (HC-Q)
- Regulatory capital (HC-R)
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- Servicing, securitization, and asset sale activities (HC-S)
- Variable interest entities (HC-V)
- Consolidated income statement (HI)
- Changes in holding company equity capital (HI-A)
- Charge-offs and recoveries on loans and leases and changes in allowances for credit losses (HI-B)
- Disaggregated data on the allowances for credit losses (HI-C)
Schedule list read from the headings of the current FR Y-9C form (effective September 2026). Source
Validation rules
2,195 rules, as counted from the Federal Reserve Board's published material. Software can run them exactly as published. Source
How they are written: A table per schedule with an 'Alg Edit Test' column giving a runnable algebraic expression (for example 'bhckc490 ne null'), alongside a plain-English 'Edit Test' column..
The rules, on federalreserve.gov
How they were counted
Counted every row in the Validity, Quality, Intraseries and Interseries edit tables at the end of the FR Y-9C instructions whose first column is the series code FRY9C, followed by its start and end dates (2,195 rows: 458 validity, 1,453 quality, 283 intraseries, 1 interseries). None has an end date before 13 Nov 2026.
Counts are in the Federal Reserve Board's own unit, so they are not comparable with other regulators' counts.
Public data
Published only added up across firms. The Board publishes the data in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and in its Uniform Bank Holding Company Performance Report (BHCPR). Apart from some exceptions, the Board treats the firm-level data as public; they can be obtained from its Freedom of Information Office. Source
- Federal Reserve Bulletin and Uniform Bank Holding Company Performance Report (BHCPR)
Added up across firms · Not stated on the pages read; described as aggregate statistics and performance ratios rather than a downloadable file.
Data from the FR Y-9 series (FR Y-9C, FR Y-9LP, FR Y-9SP, FR Y-9ES) is published in the Federal Reserve Bulletin and in the BHCPR, a standard set of performance ratios and analyses the Federal Reserve produces for each holding company. With certain exceptions, the underlying microdata is also considered public information and available through the Board's Freedom of Information Office. Source
Official documents (6)
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.
- FR Y-9C, Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies
Template · PDF · 1.5 MB
SHA-256
f80f4d4734a6show in fullf80f4d4734a67976906f8249f9e9ed713b8336085564914fa61f04aaff4e253a - Instructions for Preparation of Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies (FR Y-9C)
Instructions · PDF · 2.7 MB · September 2026
SHA-256
8ed5206561a8show in full8ed5206561a87ec3f43a958323122329c1eeb3f873bd1a376d4fce18dc5f50a6 - FR Y-9C Supplemental Instructions and Listing of Revisions, September 2026
Guidance · PDF · 117.2 KB · September 2026
SHA-256
7a7e0626e3bcshow in full7a7e0626e3bcc64eb9695f4121ce9063dc007a487b409767d3a7dab0b5fe84c3 - Reporting Forms
List of returns · HTML
- Micro Data Reference Manual (MDRM)
Data dictionary · HTML · 13 November 2026
- Recent Reporting Form Updates
Release note · HTML
Sources
Every page and document this return's facts were read from.
- federalreserve.gov/apps/reportingforms/Report/Index/FR_Y-9C
- federalreserve.gov/apps/reportingforms/Download/DownloadAttachment?guid=698a2ee2-3603-4151-ac3e-49d695e29e8f
- federalreserve.gov/apps/reportingforms/Download/DownloadAttachment?guid=dd598245-8cad-4674-917a-56235b919d88
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Last checked 13 November 2026.
