News/Events
News Releases
Wholesale Funding by FHLBanks Strengthen Banking System Click Here
As Washington Eyes Restructuring, Policy Leaders Consider Parts of Financial System That Work Click Here
Basel III Capital Proposed Rules: Council Written Statement Submitted for the House Financial Services Subcommittees' - November 29, 2012 Hearing Download PDF
Basel III Capital Proposed Rules: Council Written Statement Submitted for the Senate Banking Committee - November 14, 2012 Hearing. Download PDF
Council Statement on The Preliminary Unaudited Second Quarter 2012 Combined Financial Highlights for the Federal Home Loan Banks. Click Here...
Council Statement on The Preliminary Unaudited First Quarter 2012 Combined Financial Highlights for the Federal Home Loan Banks. Click Here...
John von Seggern's Statement on The Preliminary Unaudited 2011 Combined Financial Highlights for the Federal Home Loan Banks. Click Here...
Carl Wick, Chairman of the FHLBank of Cincinnati is elected Chairman of the Council. Click Here...
Statement on System Capital InitiativeDownload PDF
The Council of FHLBanks Comment on Year-end Financial Highlights Download PDF
Council of FHLBanks statement on Obama Administration's housing finance white paper Download PDF
Congressional Testimony
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Statement of Lee R. Gibson, Chairman, Council of Federal Home Loan Banks Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, House Financial Services Committee Download PDF
March 12, 2009
Statement of John von Seggern, President and CEO, Council of Federal Home Loan Banks Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, House Financial Services Committee Download PDF
FHLBank-related Research
September 2005
Do Federal Home Loan Bank membership and advances increase bank risk-taking?
By Dusan Stojanovic, Mark D. Vaughan and Timothy J. Yeager Download PDF
February 2005
The Impact of Advances on Federal Home Loan Bank Portfolio Lending: A Statistical Analysis
By John A. Tuccillo, Ph. D., Frederick E. Flick, Ph. D., and Michelle R. Ranville, M.A. Download PDF
February 2005
A Comparative Analysis of FHLBank Mortgage Lending
By Marsha J. Courchane and Darcy Steeg of Welch Consulting Download PDF
Letters and Speeches
October 22, 2012
Council Comment on Basel III Proposed Capital Rules
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September 24, 2012
Council Comment on NCUA’s Proposed Rule on Emergency Liquidity Sources for Credit Unions
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August 30, 2012
Council Response to FHFA’s Notice on the Use of Eminent Domain to Restructure Mortgages
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February 7, 2011
Council Comment on FHFA’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on FHLBank Membership
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June 17, 2009
Tim Chrisman Addresses Global Financial Literacy Summit
The Power of Knowledge in an Economic Recovery
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April 22, 2009
Mick Guttau Addresses FHLBank Directors Conference
The Job We Do
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March 27, 2009
Public Comment to Financial Accounting Standards Board
Recognition and Presentation of Other-Than-Temporarily-Impairments
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March 27, 2009
Public Comment Letter to Financial Accounting Standards Board
Determining Whether a Market is Not Active and a Transaction Is Not Distressed
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November 7, 2008
Public Comment Letter to FDIC Download PDF
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