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The FDIC is seeking public comment on a proposed rule to amend its international banking regulations in accordance with the requirements of section 939A of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which instructs each Federal agency to review and modify regulations that reference credit ratings. The proposed rule would amend 12 CFR part 347, subparts A and B (Subpart A and Subpart B, respectively), of the FDIC’s regulations on International Banking. Subpart A would be amended to replace references to credit ratings with alternative standards of creditworthiness. Subpart B would revise the FDIC’s asset pledge requirement for insured U.S. branches of foreign banks to eliminate three categories of assets that are currently eligible for pledging purposes because such categories reference credit ratings.