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This bill would create a list of entities deemed “Too Big To Fail” — including U.S. bank holding companies that have been identified as systemically important banks by the Financial Stability Board. The list would be compiled by the Financial Stability Oversight Council and sent to the Dept. of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury would then break up those entities so their failure could no longer have a catastrophic effect on the U.S. or global economy without a taxpayer bailout after submitting the list to Congress and the president.

Any entity on the list would not be able to use or access credit advances from the Federal Reserve, the Federal Reserve’s discount window, or any program or facility made available by the Fed. This includes asset purchases, temporary or bridge loans, government investments in debt or equity, and \"capital injections\" (i.e. bailouts) from any federal institution.

Insured financial institutions and the entities that own them would be prohibited from using insured deposits to fund:

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The above limitations also apply to entities on the list in order to prevent insured deposits from being put at risk, or creates a risk of loss to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Deposit Insurance Fund.

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