FHFA: FHLBank Collateral To Advances Decreased in 2010
November 11, 2011
The Federal Home Loan Bank system-wide minimum collateral-to-advances coverage ratio was 129 percent at year-end 2010, a 20 percentage point decrease from year-end 2009.The FHFAs annual Report on Federal Home Loan Collateral Securing Advances prepared for the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development and the House Financial Services Committee analyzes, among other things, the ratios of subprime and nontraditional collateral to the total collateral.