Effective with this release, several changes have been made to the layout of the balance sheet items reported on the H.8:

1. The balance sheet items on the seasonally adjusted and not seasonally adjusted pages are now identical.

2. For large domestically chartered banks, former item 4d, “Other securities, Investment account, Other,” has been disaggregated into items 4b2 and 4b3, “Mortgage-backed” and “Other.” Historical data beginning October 2, 1996, are available on the Federal Reserve's web site.

3. For foreign-related institutions, former item 7, “Real estate loans,” has been renumbered as item 10 and renamed “Commercial real estate,” which reflects the loan category more accurately.

4. For small domestically chartered banks, former item 9, “Real estate loans, other,” has been disaggregated into items 9 and 10, “Other residential” and “Commercial.” Historical data beginning June 2, 2004, are available on the web site.

5. For seasonally adjusted assets of large and small domestically chartered banks, former item 10, “Consumer loans,” has been renumbered as item 11 and disaggregated into items 12 and 13, “Credit cards and other revolving plans” and “Other.” Historical data beginning June 28, 2000, are available on the web site.

6. For domestically chartered commercial banks and foreign-related institutions, former item 11, “Security loans,” has been renumbered as item 14 and disaggregated into items 15 and 16, “Fed funds and RPs with brokers” and “Other.” Historical data beginning January 3, 1973, are available on the web site.

7. For foreign-related institutions, former item 12, “Other loans and leases,” has been renumbered as item 17 and disaggregated into items 17a and 17b, “Fed funds and RPs with others” and “Other.” Historical data beginning January 3, 1973, are available on the web site.

8. For small domestically chartered banks and foreign-related institutions, former item 13, “Interbank loans,” has been renumbered as item 18 and disaggregated into items 19 and 20, “Fed funds and RPs with banks” and “Other.” Historical data are available on the web site beginning January 6, 1988, for small domestically chartered banks and January 3, 1973, for foreign-related institutions.

9. For foreign-related institutions, former item 19, “Nontransaction deposits,” has been renumbered as item 26 and a component, “Large time” has been added (item 27). Historical data beginning January 3, 1973, are available on the web site.

10. For large domestically chartered banks and foreign-related institutions, former memo items 29 and 30, “Reval. gains (losses) on off-bal. sheet items,” have been renamed as “Derivatives with a positive (negative) fair value” and moved onto the balance sheet as items 4a1 and 33a. The remaining memo items have been moved to the end of the balance sheet pages. Historical data beginning October 2, 1996, are available on the web site.