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221.1101

SUBCHAPTER XI
BANK SERVICE CORPORATIONS
221.1101 Bank service corporations.

221.1101(1)

(1) Definitions. In this subchapter:

221.1101(1)(a)

(a) "Bank service corporation" means a corporation organized to perform bank services for 2 or more banks, each of which owns part of the capital stock of the corporation.

221.1101(1)(b)

(b) "Bank services" means check and deposit sorting and posting, computation and posting of interest and other credits and charges, preparation and mailing of checks, statements, notices and similar items, or any other clerical, bookkeeping, accounting, statistical or other similar functions performed for a bank.

221.1101(1)(c)

(c) "Invest" includes any advance of funds to a bank service corporation, whether by purchase of stock, the making of a loan, or otherwise, except a payment for rent earned, goods sold and delivered, or services rendered prior to the making of the payment.

221.1101(2)

(2) Investments in bank service corporations.

221.1101(2)(a)

(a) Two or more banks may invest not more than 10% of the capital of each of the banks in a bank service corporation.

221.1101(2)(b)

(b) If stock in a bank service corporation is held by 2 banks, and one of the banks ceases to utilize the services of the corporation and ceases to hold stock in it, and leaves the other as the sole stock holding bank, the corporation may nevertheless continue to function as a bank service corporation and the other bank may continue to hold stock in it.

221.1101(3)

(3) Services to competitive banks.

221.1101(3)(a)

(a) Except as provided in par. (b), if a bank, referred to in this subsection as the "applying bank", applies for a type of bank service for itself from a bank service corporation that supplies the same type of bank service to another bank, and the applying bank is competitive with a bank that holds stock in the bank service corporation, the bank service corporation must offer to supply the service by doing at least one of the following, at the option of the applying bank:

221.1101(3)(a)1.

1. Issuing stock to the applying bank and furnishing the bank service to it on the same basis as to the other banks holding stock in the bank service corporation.

221.1101(3)(a)2.

2. Furnishing the bank service to the applying bank at a rate no higher than necessary to fairly reflect the cost of the service, including the reasonable cost of the capital provided to the bank service corporation by its shareholders.

221.1101(3)(b)

(b) The bank service corporation need not offer to supply the bank service to the applying bank under par. (a) if the service at competitive overall costs are available to the applying bank from another source, or if the furnishing of the bank service sought by the applying bank would be beyond the practical capacity of the bank service corporation. In any action or proceeding to enforce the duty imposed by this subsection, or for damages for the breach of this section, the bank service corporation has the burden of showing the applicability of this paragraph.

221.1101(4)

(4) Permitted activities of bank service corporations. A bank service corporation may not engage in any activity other than the performance of bank services for banks.

221.1101(5)

(5) Contracting for bank services. A bank may cause to be performed, by contract or otherwise, any bank service for itself, whether on or off its premises, if the bank and the party performing the service provide the division with assurances, satisfactory to the division, that the performance of the service will be subject to regulation and examination by the division to the same extent as if the service was being performed by the bank itself on its own premises.

221.1101 - ANNOT.

History: 1995 a. 336.