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The above Future Changes in Accounting Policies section contains forward-looking statements. Please see the Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.

U.S. Regulatory Developments

We continue to monitor and prepare for U.S. regulatory developments including financial reforms under the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act) and highlight recent developments in this section. For a more comprehensive discussion, see the U.S. Regulatory Developments section on page 69 of BMO's 2012 annual MD&A.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act, swaps will be subject to a comprehensive regulatory regime. Certain swaps will be required to be centrally cleared or traded on an exchange. BMO registered as a swap dealer with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on December 31, 2012. Swap reporting and business conduct requirements are scheduled to go into effect on a staggered basis over the next six months. Capital and margin requirements relating to swaps are currently being reviewed by U.S. and international regulators.

In December 2012, the FRB issued for comment a proposed rulemaking that would establish enhanced prudential standards and early remediation requirements for certain foreign banks with U.S. operations, including BMO. The proposal would establish new requirements for organizational structure, risk management, capital, liquidity, stress testing, and early remediation covering all U.S. operations of foreign banks. The requirements specific to BMO Financial Corp. are similar to those that apply to domestic U.S. banks. The Federal Reserve Board has indicated the requirements would be effective July 1, 2015. BMO is in the process of reviewing the proposal.

Caution

This U.S. Regulatory Developments section contains forward-looking statements. Please see the Caution Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.

Select Financial Instruments

Pages 64 to 66 of BMO's 2012 annual MD&A provide enhanced disclosure relating to select financial instruments that, commencing in 2008 and based on subsequent assessments, markets had come to regard as carrying higher risk. Readers are encouraged to review that disclosure to assist in understanding the nature and extent of BMO's exposures. In March 2011, the FSB published Thematic Review on Risk Disclosure Practices - Peer Review Report, which updated its views on disclosure practices. On October 29, 2012, the Enhanced Disclosure Task Force of the FSB published its report, Enhancing the Risk Disclosures of Banks. We currently comply with many of the recommendations, and we continue to review our disclosures for future filings and enhance them as appropriate.

We follow a practice of reporting on significant changes in the select financial instruments since year end, if any, in our interim MD&A. There have been no changes of substance from the disclosure in our annual MD&A.

Select Geographic Exposures

Select geographic disclosures were disclosed and discussed on pages 67, 68, 112 and 113 of BMO's 2012 Annual Report. Our exposure to select countries of interest, as at January 31, 2013, is set out in the tables that follow, which summarize our exposure to Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain (GIIPS) along with a broader group of countries of interest in Europe where our gross exposure is greater than $500 million. Our gross and net portfolio exposures are summarized in Table 16 for lending, securities (inclusive of credit default swaps (CDS) activity), repo-style transactions and derivatives. These totals are further broken down by counterparty type in Tables 17 to 19. We also provide a summary of the October 31, 2012, exposures for ease of comparison. There has been limited change in our exposures.