Missouri Revised Statutes Title XXIV. Business and Financial Institutions § 362.140. Branch offices in foreign countries--how established--amount to be invested

(1) To establish branches in foreign countries or dependencies or insular possessions of the United States for the furtherance of foreign commerce of the United States and to act, if required to do so, as fiscal agents of the United States;

(2) To invest an amount not exceeding in the aggregate ten percent of its paid-in capital stock and surplus in the stock of one or more banks or corporations chartered or incorporated under the laws of the United States, or of any state thereof, and principally engaged in international or foreign banking or banking in a dependency or insular possession of the United States, either directly or through the agency, ownership or control of local institutions in foreign countries or in the dependencies or insular possessions, including the stock of one or more banks or corporations chartered or incorporated under section 25a of the Federal Reserve Act as approved December 24, 1919.