(1) Each application for a license under this part must be accompanied by a nonrefundable filing fee payable to the office in the following amount:

(a) Ten thousand dollars for establishing a state-chartered investment company.

Terms Used In Florida Statutes 663.12

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • International administrative office: means an office of an international banking corporation established in this state for the purpose of engaging in the activities described in…. See Florida Statutes 663.01
  • International bank agency: means an office of an international banking corporation established in this state for the purpose of engaging in the activities described in…. See Florida Statutes 663.01
  • International banking corporation: means a banking corporation organized and licensed under the laws of a foreign country. See Florida Statutes 663.01
  • International branch: means any office of an international banking corporation established in this state under…. See Florida Statutes 663.01
  • International representative office: means an office of an international banking corporation organized and licensed under the laws of a foreign country that is established or maintained in this state for the purpose of engaging in the activities described in…. See Florida Statutes 663.01
  • State-chartered investment company: means a corporation organized under the laws of this state for the purpose of engaging in the activities described in…. See Florida Statutes 663.01
(b) Ten thousand dollars for establishing an international bank agency or branch.
(c) Five thousand dollars for establishing an international administrative office.
(d) Five thousand dollars for establishing an international representative office.
(e) An amount equal to the initial filing fee for an application to convert from one type of license to another. The commission may increase the filing fee for any type of license to an amount established by rule and calculated in a manner so as to cover the direct and indirect cost of processing such applications.
(2) Each international bank agency, international branch, and state-chartered investment company shall pay to the office, on or before January 31 and July 31 of each year, a semiannual assessment in an amount determined by the commission by rule and calculated to recover the costs of the office incurred in connection with the supervision of international banking activities licensed under this part. The rules must provide uniform rates of assessment for all licenses of the same type and provide for declining rates of assessment in relation to the total assets of the licensee held in the state, but may not result in rates of assessment which exceed the rate applicable to state banks pursuant to s. 658.73, unless the rate would result in a semiannual assessment of less than $1,000. For the purposes of this subsection, the total assets of an international bank agency, international branch, or state-chartered investment company must include amounts due the agency or branch or state investment company from other offices, branches, or subsidiaries of the international banking corporations or other corporations of which the agency, branch, or state-chartered investment company is a part or from entities related to that international banking corporation.
(3) Each international banking corporation which maintains an office licensed under the provisions of this part and each state-chartered investment company shall pay to the office examination fees which shall be determined by the commission by rule and calculated in a manner so as to be equal to the actual cost of each examiner’s participation in the examination, as measured by the examiner’s pay scale, plus any other expenses directly incurred in the examination, but in no event shall such fee be less than $200 per day for each examiner participating in the examination.
(4) An international bank agency or international branch shall pay to the office a fine if the agency or branch fails to correct any asset maintenance or capital equivalency deficiency within 7 days following the end of the month in which the deficiency occurs. The fine shall be equal to the amount of the asset maintenance or capital equivalency deficiency at the end of the month in which the deficiency occurs, multiplied by 500 basis points above the Federal Reserve Board’s daily discount rate at the end of the month in which the deficiency occurred, for each day of the deficiency. The minimum fine shall be $1,000.
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