--- title: "FR Y-9C vs. Call Report: Reading Holding Company Financials" description: "The FR Y-9C shows the whole banking organization; the call report shows only the insured bank. Where the two differ and which schedules to read." canonical_url: https://www.bankregreports.com/blog/what-is-the-fr-y-9c/ source: BankRegReports published: "2026-06-22" updated: "2026-10-28" --- Pull up JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. on the FFIEC call report and you see a $4.0 trillion institution. Pull up JPMorgan Chase & Co. on the FR Y-9C and you see something different: a holding company with broker-dealer operations, asset management, and international exposures that never touch the insured bank charter. For most large organizations, those two pictures diverge in ways that matter. The FR Y-9C is what closes that gap. For who files, the $3 billion threshold and the due dates, see the [FR Y-9C reference page](/fr-y-9c/). This guide covers how its schedules map to the [call report](/blog/what-is-a-bank-call-report/), where the two reports diverge in practice, and when you need one versus the other. --- ## What the FR Y-9C Actually Is The FR Y-9C (formally titled Consolidated Financial Statements for Holding Companies) is a quarterly report filed with the [Federal Reserve](https://www.federalreserve.gov). It consolidates the parent holding company, all bank subsidiaries, and all nonbank subsidiaries into a single set of financial statements. That last part is the point. The FFIEC 031/041/051 call report is filed by the insured bank itself. Nonbank subsidiaries (the mortgage company, the broker-dealer, the leasing arm) do not appear there except in intercompany eliminations. The FR Y-9C pulls them all in. The Federal Reserve uses it as the primary window into the financial condition of the banking organizations it supervises at the consolidated level. For a large complex institution, the holding company's leverage ratio, trading book exposure, and nonbank funding can look quite different from the bank-only picture, which is exactly why the Fed requires it. ![FR Y-9C Filers by Asset Tier](figures/what_is_fr_y9c-1.svg) The $3 billion consolidated asset threshold is the key cutoff. Holding companies above that file the FR Y-9C quarterly. Below it, the filing obligation drops to [the FR Y-9SP](/blog/bank-regulatory-reports-beyond-call-report/): a parent-only, semiannual report with far less detail. For a small community bank inside a holding company with no meaningful nonbank activity, that distinction rarely matters analytically. For a $15 billion regional with a mortgage-servicing subsidiary and a captive insurance entity, it matters quite a bit. ---
Histogram of the tangible common equity ratio across every FDIC-insured U.S. bank
The FR Y-9C reports capital at the consolidated holding-company level. For context, here is the tangible common equity ratio across every FDIC-insured bank, the capital cushion the Y-9C rolls up. BankRegReports analysis.
## The Schedule Structure and Where to Find What The FR Y-9C's schedule layout will feel familiar if you work with call report data. The Fed designed the two to be broadly comparable, which is deliberate, since examiners regularly work across both. **Schedule HC**: the consolidated balance sheet. This is your top-level snapshot of assets, liabilities, and equity for the entire organization. The holding-company equivalent of Schedule RC on the FFIEC 031. **Schedule HI**: the consolidated income statement. Revenue, expenses, provision, and net income across the bank and nonbank subs. Watch the line items here against Schedule RI on the call report; for large organizations you will sometimes see material differences in noninterest income that trace directly to nonbank revenue. **Schedule HC-C**: consolidated loans and leases by category. The holding-company analog of Schedule RC-C. For organizations with significant nonbank lending operations, the consolidated loan book can exceed the bank-only version by a meaningful margin. **Schedule HC-N**: past due and nonaccrual loans. Consolidated asset quality. This is your holding-company equivalent of Schedule RC-N, and it is where credit stress shows up first in a consolidated view. **Schedule HC-R**: regulatory capital. This is the one that gets the most attention in supervisory contexts. Consolidated Tier 1 capital, risk-weighted assets, and capital ratios for the holding company as a whole. The bank-level capital ratios on Schedule RC-R tell a different story if the parent has significant double-leverage or downstream guarantees. **Schedule HC-L**: off-balance-sheet items and derivatives. For large organizations, the notional values here can dwarf the balance sheet. The call report analog is Schedule RC-L, though at most community banks it is a short schedule. One practical annoyance: the FR Y-9C reports under its own MDRM mnemonics (BHCK, BHCA and others) rather than the RCON, RCFD and RIAD prefixes of the call report. BHCK2170 on the Y-9C (total assets) and RCON2170 on the call report are the same concept but tracked under different code prefixes. If you are building a reconciliation between a bank and its holding company, you spend real time mapping the two code systems. [BankRegReports](https://www.bankregreports.com) does that mapping for you across 24+ years of quarterly history. --- ## FR Y-9C vs. Call Report: Where They Differ in Practice | | Call Report (FFIEC 031/041/051) | FR Y-9C | |---|---|---| | Entity covered | Single insured depository institution | Consolidated holding company | | Filed with | Primary federal regulator via FFIEC | Federal Reserve | | Nonbank subsidiaries | Excluded | Consolidated in | | Primary identifier | FDIC certificate number | RSSD ID | | Filing frequency | Quarterly | Quarterly | | Threshold | All FDIC-insured institutions | Generally $3B+ consolidated assets | | Item code prefix | RCON / RIAD / RCFD | BHCK / BHCI / BHDM | For a standalone community bank with no meaningful holding-company structure, these two reports are nearly identical. The bank is 99% of the consolidated entity, so the numbers reconcile almost exactly. For a large regional or money-center organization, the gap can be substantial, and that gap is analytically interesting. A few places where the divergence shows up most often: **Noninterest income.** Broker-dealer commissions, insurance premiums, and mortgage-banking revenue from nonbank subsidiaries flow into Schedule HI on the Y-9C but never appear on the bank's Schedule RI. **Leverage and debt.** Holding companies frequently issue senior notes and subordinated debt at the parent level that fund downstream capital contributions to the bank. The bank's balance sheet shows the equity; the holding company's shows the debt that paid for it. Double-leverage analysis requires the Y-9C. **Trading assets.** For organizations with significant broker-dealer operations, trading account assets on Schedule HC can be a multiple of what appears on the bank's Schedule RC. --- ## Identifiers: Why Holding Companies Use RSSD IDs The FDIC certificate number is the unique identifier for an insured bank. Holding companies do not have FDIC certificates (they are not insured depositories), so they are tracked by their **RSSD ID**, the identifier assigned by the Federal Reserve's National Information Center. The RSSD ID links a holding company to each of its bank subsidiaries, which is how you trace the ownership chain. A holding company with four bank charters will have one RSSD ID for the parent and four separate FDIC certificate numbers for the bank subsidiaries, each of which also has its own RSSD ID. If you are [looking up a bank](/blog/how-to-look-up-a-bank/) and need to find the holding company that owns it, the NIC parent chain is the path. The RSSD ID on the bank's call report header record points to the parent. [BankRegReports](https://www.bankregreports.com) exposes this relationship directly so you can move between bank-level and consolidated views without rebuilding the ownership hierarchy yourself. --- ## When You Need the FR Y-9C vs. the Call Report **Use the call report** when your analysis is bank-specific: deposit funding, loan portfolio composition, bank-level capital adequacy, or any metric anchored to the insured institution. The UBPR is built from call report data and remains the standard reference for bank-to-bank peer comparison. **Use the FR Y-9C** when: - The holding company issues public equity or debt and you are doing credit or equity analysis on the legal entity investors actually own - You need to see nonbank business lines: trading, insurance, mortgage origination at the parent - You are stress-testing consolidated leverage, including parent-level debt - You want capital ratios at the consolidated level, which can differ from bank-level ratios under certain structures - The organization operates multiple bank charters and you want the combined picture For most community banks, the call report is sufficient. For anything above roughly $5 billion with a complex holding-company structure, working from call report data alone means you are looking at an incomplete picture. --- ## Frequently Asked Questions **What is the difference between the FR Y-9C and the call report?** The call report covers a single insured bank filed through the FFIEC. The FR Y-9C covers the entire consolidated holding company, including nonbank subsidiaries, and is filed with the Federal Reserve. For a standalone community bank the two are nearly identical. For a large organization with broker-dealer, insurance, or mortgage-origination operations, they can diverge substantially. **Is the FR Y-9C public?** Yes. The Federal Reserve publishes FR Y-9C data through the National Information Center and the Chicago Fed's BHCF data series. BankRegReports normalizes and presents holding-company data alongside bank-level call report data with trend history and peer comparisons. **Why do analysts use the FR Y-9C instead of the call report?** The consolidated holding company is usually the entity that issues stock and carries parent-level debt. The FR Y-9C captures the full financial picture of that entity (leverage, nonbank revenue, and trading exposures) that no single bank's call report shows. **How is a holding company identified without an FDIC certificate?** By its RSSD ID, assigned by the Federal Reserve. The RSSD ID links the holding company to each of its bank subsidiaries in the NIC ownership hierarchy. --- BankRegReports publishes call report, UBPR, FDIC, Federal Reserve, NCUA, and SEC EDGAR data for every U.S. bank and credit union, with peer benchmarks and quarterly history. 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