News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on [August 166, 2013] issued a final rule establishing annual assessment fees for its supervision and regulation of large financial companies. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act directs the Board to collect assessment fees equal to the expenses it estimates are necessary or appropriate to supervise and regulate bank holding companies and savings and loan holding companies with $50 billion or more in total consolidated assets and nonbank financial companies designated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council for supervision by the Federal Reserve. The final rule outlines how the Board determines which companies are charged, estimates the applicable expenses, determines each company’s assessment fee, and bills for and collects the assessment fees. Under the final rule, each calendar year is an assessment period.  For the 2012 assessment period, the first year for which assessment fees will be collected, the Board will notify each company of the amount of its assessment when the rule becomes effective in late October.  Payments for the 2012 assessment period will be due no later than December 15, 2013.  The Board estimates it will collect about $440 million from 70 companies for the 2012 assessment period. “