The Bank provides a variety of services to help members meet day-to-day cash management needs. These services include cash management services that support member advance activity, such as daily investment accounts, automated clearing house (ACH) transactions, and custodial mortgage accounts. In addition to cash management services, the Bank provides other noncredit services, including wire transfer services and safekeeping services. These cash management, wire transfer, and safekeeping services do not generate material amounts of income and are performed primarily as ancillary services for the Bank’s members.

The Bank also acts as an intermediary to meet certain derivatives needs of its smaller members that have limited or no access to the capital markets. This service assists members with asset-liability management by giving them indirect access to the capital markets. These intermediary transactions involve the Bank entering into a derivative with a member and then entering into a mirror-image derivative with one of the Bank’s approved counterparties. The derivatives entered into by the Bank as a result of its intermediary activities do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment and are separately marked to fair value through earnings. The Bank attempts to earn income from this service sufficient to cover its operating expenses through the minor difference in rates on these mirror-image derivatives. The net result of the accounting for these derivatives is not material to the operating results of the Bank. The Bank may require both the member and the counterparty to post collateral for any market value exposure that may exist during the life of the transaction. The Bank has ceased offering intermediate swaps that contain a LIBOR leg.

The Bank’s mortgage loan purchase programs provided members an alternative to holding mortgage loans in a portfolio or selling them into the secondary market. Prior to 2008, the Bank purchased loans directly from member participating financial institutions (PFIs) through the Mortgage Partnership Finance® Program (MPF® Program), a program developed by FHLBank Chicago and the Mortgage Purchase Program (MPP), a program separately established by the Bank. The Bank ceased directly purchasing new mortgage assets under these mortgage programs in 2008. However, the Bank continues to support its existing MPP and MPF Program mortgage loan portfolios. The Bank may also acquire fixed-rate residential mortgage loans through participation in eligible mortgage loans purchased from other FHLBanks.

The Bank maintains a portfolio of mortgage loans that were historically purchased directly from PFIs and are recorded on the balance sheet. One of the Bank’sThere were no PFIs under the traditional MPF products Truist Bank, was among the Bank’s top 10 borrowers as of December 31, 2019.2021.

The Bank’s MPP is independent of other FHLBanks’ mortgage loan programs. Therefore, the Bank has greater control over pricing, quality of customer service, relationships with any third-party service providers, and program changes. Certain benefits of greater Bank control include the Bank’s ability to control operating costs and to manage its regulatory relationship directly with the Finance Agency. There were no MPP PFIs that were among the Bank’s top 10 borrowers as of December 31, 2019.2021.

The MPF Program and MPP are authorized under applicable regulations. Regulatory interpretive guidance provides that an FHLBank may sell loans acquired through its mortgage loan purchase programs so long as it also sells the related credit enhancement obligation. The Bank currently is not selling loans it has acquired through these mortgage loan purchase programs. The contractual maturity dates of some of the purchased loans extend out to 2047.

Consolidated obligations, consisting of bonds and discount notes, are the joint and several obligations of the FHLBanks, backed only by the financial resources of the FHLBanks. Consolidated obligations are not obligations of the U.S. government, and the United States does not guarantee the consolidated obligations. The Office of Finance has responsibility for facilitating and executing the issuance of consolidated obligations for all the FHLBanks. It also services all outstanding debt. The Bank is primarily liable for its portion of consolidated obligations (i.e., those issued on its behalf); however, the Bank is also jointly and severally liable with the other FHLBanks for the payment of principal and interest on consolidated obligations of all the FHLBanks. If the principal or interest on any consolidated obligation issued on behalf of the Bank is not paid in full when due, the Bank may not pay any extraordinary expenses or pay dividends to, or redeem or repurchase shares of capital stock from, any member of the Bank. At any time, the Finance Agency may require any FHLBank to make principal or interest payments due on any consolidated obligation, whether or not the primary obligor FHLBank has defaulted on the payment of that obligation.

To the extent that an FHLBank makes any payment on a consolidated obligation on behalf of another FHLBank, the paying FHLBank is entitled to reimbursement from the noncomplying FHLBank. However, if the Finance Agency determines that the noncomplying FHLBank is unable to satisfy its obligations, the Finance Agency may allocate the outstanding liability among the remaining FHLBanks on a pro rata basis in proportion to each FHLBank’s participation in all consolidated obligations outstanding or on any other basis the Finance Agency may determine.

The Bank was in compliance with this Finance Agency regulation as of December 31, 20192021 and 2018.2020.

Consolidated obligations are issued with either fixed- or variable-rate coupon payment terms that may use a variety of indices.indices, such as SOFR and Overnight Index Swap (OIS). The Bank, working through the Office of Finance, is able to customize consolidated obligations to meet investor demands. Customized features can include different indices and embedded derivatives. The Bank offsets these customized features predominantly by derivatives to reduce the market risk associated with the consolidated obligations.

The Bank must file a consolidated obligation payment plan for Finance Agency approval upon the occurrence of any of the following:

Regulations permit a noncompliant FHLBank to continue to incur and pay normal operating expenses in the regular course of business. However, a noncompliant FHLBank may not incur or pay any extraordinary expenses, declare or pay dividends, or redeem any capital stock until the Finance Agency has approved the FHLBank’s consolidated obligation payment plan or inter-FHLBank assistance agreement or has ordered another remedy, and the noncompliant FHLBank has paid all its direct obligations.

The Bank must comply with regulatory requirements for total regulatory capital, leverage capital, and risk-based capital. To satisfy these capital requirements, the Bank maintains a capital plan. Each member’s minimum stock requirement is an amount equal to the sum of a “membership” stock component and an “activity-based” stock component under the capital plan. The FHLBank Act and applicable regulations require that the minimum stock requirement for members must be sufficient to enable the Bank to meet its minimum leverage and risk-based capital requirements. If necessary, the Bank may adjust the minimum stock requirement from time to time within the ranges established in the capital plan. Each member is required to comply promptly with any adjustment to the minimum stock requirement.

As of December 31, 2019,2021, the membership stock requirement was 0.090.05 percent (nine(five basis points) of the member’s total assets, subject to a cap of $15$16.2 million.

As of December 31, 2019,2021, the activity-based stock requirement was the sum of the following:

In addition, the activity-based stock requirement may include a percentage of any outstanding balance of acquired member assets (such as residential mortgage loan assets), although this percentage was set at zero as of December 31, 2019.2021. The Bank did not have any multifamily residential mortgage loan assets purchased from members or other targeted debt or equity

investments outstanding; therefore, the 8.00 percent activity-based stock requirement was inapplicable as of December 31, 2019. Currently,2021. The Bank’s Capital Plan was amended to add an activity-based investment requirement for standby letters of credit. Under the Bank does not have aamended Capital Plan, members will be required to maintain an investment in subclass B3 capital stock requirement for the issuancein an amount equal to 0.10 percent (ten basis points) of members’ outstanding standby letters of credit. The Bank has received regulatory communication relatingexpects to implement the inclusion of an activity stock requirement for0.10 percent letters of credit the specific terms of which have not yet been determined, and any suchstock requirement will need to be included in an amended capital plan, which would require both approval of the Bank’s board of directors and the Finance Agency.on March 18, 2022.

Although applicable regulations allow the Bank to issue Class A stock or Class B stock, or both, to its members, the Bank’s capital plan allows it to issue only Class B stock.

Finance Agency regulations and the Bank’s Risk Management Policy (RMP) establish guidelines for derivatives. These policies and regulations prohibit the trading or speculative use of these instruments and limit permissible credit risk arising from these instruments. The Bank enters into derivatives to manage the exposure to interest-rate risk inherent in otherwise unhedged assets and funding positions, to achieve the Bank’s risk management objectives, and to act as an intermediary between its members and counterparties. These derivatives consist of interest-rate swaps (including callable and putable swaps), swaptions, interest-rate cap and floor agreements, and forward contracts. Generally, the Bank uses derivatives in its overall interest-rate risk management to accomplish one or more of the following objectives:

The total notional amount of the Bank’s outstanding derivatives was $81.2$50.4 billion and $59.5$35.1 billion as of December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, respectively. The contractual or notional amount of a derivative is not a measure of the amount of credit risk from that transaction; rather, the notional amount serves as a basis for calculating periodic interest payments or cash flows.

The Bank may enter into derivatives concurrently with the issuance of consolidated obligations with embedded options. When issuing bonds, the Bank generally simultaneously enters into derivatives to, in effect, convert fixed-rate liabilities into variable-rate liabilities. The continued attractiveness of such debt depends on price relationships in both the bond and derivatives markets. If conditions in these markets change, the Bank may alter the types or terms of the bonds issued. Similarly, the Bank may enter into derivatives in conjunction with the origination of advances with embedded options. Issuing fixed-rate advances while simultaneously entering into derivatives, in effect, converts fixed-rate advances into variable-rate earning assets.

The Government Corporation Control Act provides that, before a government corporation (which includes each of the FHLBanks) issues and offers obligations to the public, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe (1) the form, denomination, maturity, interest rate, and conditions of the obligations; (2) the time and manner in which issued; and (3) the selling price. Under the FHLBank Act, the Secretary of the Treasury has the authority, at his or her discretion, to purchase consolidated obligations up to an aggregate principal amount of $4.0 billion. No borrowings under this authority have been outstanding since 1977.

The Bank’s website is located at www.fhlbatl.com. The content of the Bank’s website is not incorporated by reference into this Report or in any other report or document that the Bank files with the SEC, and any references to the Bank’s website are intended to be inactive textual references only.

The Bank’s workforce is primarily comprised of corporate employees, with the Bank’s principal operations in one location. As of December 31, 2019,2021, the Bank employed 312had 305 full-time and three3 part-time employees. As of December 31, 2021, approximately 46.4 percent of the Bank’s workforce is female, 53.6 percent male, 51.9 percent non-minority and 48.1 percent minority. The Bank’s workforce is leanly staffed, and historically has included a number of longer-tenured employees. The Bank strives to both develop talent from within the organization and supplement with external hires. The Bank believes that developing talent internally results in institutional strength and continuity and promotes loyalty and commitment in the Bank’s employee base, which furthers its success, while adding new employees contributes to new ideas, continuous improvement, and the Bank’s goals of a diverse and inclusive workforce. As of December 31, 2021, the average tenure of the Bank’s employees was 11.6 years. There are no collective bargaining agreements with the Bank’s employees.

The Bank is exempt from ordinary federal, state, and local taxation, except employment and real property taxes. However, each FHLBank must set aside 10 percent of their income subject to assessment for the AHP, or such additional prorated sums as may be required so that the aggregate annual contribution of the FHLBanks is not less than $100 million. The aggregate annual contribution of the FHLBanks exceeded $100 million for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018,2021, 2020, and 2017.2019. For purposes of the AHP calculation, each FHLBank’s income subject to assessment is defined as the individual FHLBank’s net income before assessments, plus interest expense related to mandatorily redeemable capital stock. If an FHLBank experiences a net loss for a full year, the FHLBank would have no obligation to the AHP for that year since each FHLBank’s required annual AHP contribution is limited to its annual income subject to assessment. AHP assessments for the Bank were $41$15 million, $46$28 million, and $39$41 million for the years ended December 31, 2019, 2018,2021, 2020, and 2017,2019, respectively.

The FHLBanks are GSEs, organized under the authority of the FHLBank Act, and governed by federal laws and regulations as adopted and applied by the Finance Agency. Congress may amend the FHLBank Act or amend or adopt other statutes in ways that significantly affect the rights and obligations of the FHLBanks and the manner in which the FHLBanks carry out their housing finance mission and business operations. New or modified legislation enacted by Congress or regulatory requirements applied or imposed by the Finance Agency or other financial services regulators could have a negative effect on the Bank’s ability to conduct business or on the cost of doing business. For example, from time to time, there have been several legislative efforts and policy proposals regarding reform of the federal support of U.S. housing finance, specifically targeting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If implemented, these plans may also directly and indirectly impact other GSEs that support the U.S. housing market, including the FHLBanks. In addition, certain regulations affecting our members could impact the extent to which they can engage in business with the Bank.

Changes in statutory or regulatory requirements, or their application, could result in, among other things, an increase in the FHLBanks’ cost of funding and regulatory compliance; a change in membership or permissible business activities; additional liquidity and capital requirements; or a decrease in the size, scope, or nature of the FHLBanks’ lending or investment activities, any of which could negatively impact the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations.

We operateThe Bank operates in a highly competitive environment. Advances are the Bank’s primary product offering and represented 64.857.7 percent of the Bank’s total assets for the year ended December 31, 2019.2021. Demand for advances is affected by, among other factors, the cost and availability of other sources of liquidity for the Bank’s members, including deposits. The Bank competes with other suppliers of wholesale funding, both secured and unsecured. Such other suppliers may include the United States government, investment banks, commercial banks and, in certain circumstances, other FHLBanks with which members have a relationship through affiliates. Large institutions may also have independent access to the national and global credit markets. From time to time, these alternative funding sources may offer more favorable terms on their loans than the Bank does on its advances. Any change made by the Bank in the pricing of its advances in an effort to effectively compete with these competitive funding sources may decrease the Bank’s profitability on advances, which could have a material adverse impact on the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations, including dividend yields to members.

The prolonged low interest rate environment has resulted in a concentration of short-term advances. The Bank expects this short-term advance preference to continue during 2020.2022. If members do not extend or renew these short-term advances as they come due, the Bank may experience a significant reduction in advances, which could have a material adverse impact on the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations. Advances due in one year or less comprised 66.848.6 percent of the Bank’s total advances outstanding as of December 31, 2019.2021.

The Bank’s primary source of funds is from the sale of consolidated obligations in the capital markets, including the short-term discount note market. The Bank competes with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, other GSEs, and the U.S. Treasury, as well as corporate and supranational entities for funds raised through the issuance of consolidated obligations. The Bank’s ability to obtain funds through the sale of consolidated obligations depends in part on prevailing conditions in the capital markets (including investor demand), such as the effects of any reduced liquidity in financial markets, which are beyond the Bank’s control. The failure to obtain such funds on terms and conditions favorable to the Bank could adversely impact the Bank’s ability to manage its future liquidity.

Like many financial institutions, the Bank realizes income primarily from the spread between interest earned on the Bank’s outstanding loansadvances and investments and interest paid on the Bank’s borrowings and other liabilities. Although the Bank uses a number of measures to monitor and manage changes in interest rates, the Bank may experience “gaps” in the interest-rate sensitivities of its assets and liabilities resulting from duration mismatches. The existence of gaps in interest-rate sensitivities means that either the Bank’s interest-bearing liabilities will be more sensitive to changes in interest rates than its interest-earning assets, or vice versa. In either case, if interest rates move contrary to the Bank’s position, any such gap could adversely affect the net present value of the Bank’s interest-sensitive assets and liabilities, which could negatively affect the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations.

The Bank uses a significant amount of derivative instruments to attempt to reduce its interest-rate risk and mortgage prepayment risk. The Bank determines the nature and quantity of hedging transactions based on various factors, including market conditions and the expected volume and terms of advances. As a result, the Bank's effective use of these instruments depends on the ability of the Bank to determine the appropriate hedging positions in light of the Bank's assets, liabilities, and prevailing and anticipated market conditions. In addition, the effectiveness of the Bank's hedging strategy depends upon the Bank's ability to enter into these instruments with acceptable parties, upon terms satisfactory to the Bank, and in the quantities necessary to hedge the Bank's corresponding obligations.financial instruments.

Certain changes to statutory and regulatory requirements for derivative transactions, including rules that would subject non-cleared swaps to a mandatory two-way initial margin requirement, among other things, could adversely affect the liquidity and pricingAs of derivative transactions entered into by the Bank, making derivative trades more costly and less attractive as risk management tools. By March 31,June 30, 2020, the Bank will ceaseceased swapping new transactions to LIBOR in accordance with the supervisory letter issued by the Finance Agency. Many of the Bank’s legacy derivative instruments are swapped to LIBOR-based rates and indices, and there can be no assurances that ongoing efforts to transition away from LIBOR, including the market’s adoption of alternative benchmarks and new contractual terms for legacy transactions, will not adversely affect the trading market or value of derivatives.

If the Bank is unable to manage its hedging positions properly or is unable to enter into hedging instruments upon acceptable terms, the Bank may be unable to manage its interest-rate and other risks or may be required to change its investment strategies and advance product offerings, which could affect the Bank's financial condition and results of operations.

The Bank invests in MBS and has at times invested in whole mortgage loans. Changes in interest rates can significantly affect the prepayment patterns of these assets, and such prepayment patterns could affect the Bank’s earnings. In the Bank’s experience, it is difficult to hedge prepayment risk in mortgage loans. Therefore, prepayments of mortgage assets could have an adverse effect on the income of the Bank.

The Bank’s board of directors may declare dividends on the Bank’s capital stock, payable to members, from the Bank’s unrestricted retained earnings and current net earnings. The Bank’s ability to pay dividends and to repurchase or redeem capital stock is subject to compliance with statutory and regulatory liquidity and capital requirements. The Bank’s financial management policy addresses regulatory guidance issued to all FHLBanks regarding retained earnings. It requires the Bank to establish a target amount of retained earnings by considering factors such as forecasted income, mark-to-market adjustments on derivatives and trading securities, market risk, operational risk, and credit risk, all of which may be influenced by events beyond the Bank’s control. The Bank’s capital plan addresses minimum regulatory capital requirements. Events such as changes in interest rates, collateral value, credit quality of members, changes to regulatory capital requirements, and any future

credit losses may affect the adequacy of the Bank’s retained earnings and may require the Bank to reduce its dividends, suspend dividends altogether, or limit capital stock repurchases and redemptions to achieve and maintain the targeted amount of retained earnings or regulatory capital requirements. These actions could cause a reduction in members’ demand for advances, or make it difficult for the Bank to retain existing members or to attract new members.

The Bank faces credit risk on advances, standby letters of credit, investments, derivatives, and mortgage loan assets. The Bank requires advances and standby letters of credit to be fully secured with collateral. The Bank evaluates the types of collateral pledged by the member and assigns a borrowing capacity to the collateral, based on the risk associated with that type of collateral. If the Bank has insufficient collateral before or after an event of payment default or failure of the member or the Bank is unable to liquidate the collateral for the value assigned to it in the event of a payment default or failure of a member, the Bank could experience a credit loss on advances or standby letters of credit, which could adversely affect its financial condition and results of operations.

The Bank assumes secured and unsecured credit risk exposure associated with securities transactions, money market transactions, supplemental mortgage insurance agreements, and derivative contracts. The Bank routinely executes transactions with counterparties in the financial services industry, including commercial banks, brokers and dealers, investment banks, and other institutional clients. The insolvency or other inability of a significant counterparty to perform its obligations under a derivative contract or other agreement could have an adverse effect on the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations. The Bank’s credit risk may be exacerbated based on market movements that impact the value of the derivative or collateral positions, the failure of a counterparty to return collateral owed by the counterparty to the Bank, or when the collateral pledged to the Bank cannot be realized upon or is liquidated at prices not sufficient to recover the full amount of the credit or derivative exposure due to the Bank. Any failure to properly perfect the Bank’s security interest in collateral or any disruption in the servicing of collateral in the event of a default could create credit losses for the Bank.

The Bank uses master derivative contracts that contain provisions that require the Bank to net the exposure under all transactions with a counterparty to one amount in order to calculate collateral requirements. Although the Bank attempts to monitor the creditworthiness of all counterparties, it is possible that the Bank may not be able to terminate the agreement with a foreign commercial bank before the counterparty would become subject to an insolvency proceeding.

Each of the FHLBanks relies upon the issuance of consolidated obligations as a primary source of funds. Consolidated obligations are the joint and several obligations of all of the FHLBanks, backed only by the financial resources of the FHLBanks. Accordingly, the Bank is jointly and severally liable with the other FHLBanks for the consolidated obligations issued by the FHLBanks through the Office of Finance.

The Finance Agency by regulation, may require any FHLBank to make principal or interest payments due on any consolidated obligation at any time, whether or not the FHLBank that was the primary obligor has defaulted on the payment of that obligation. The Finance Agency may allocate the liability among one or more FHLBanks on a pro rata basis or on any other basis the Finance Agency may determine. Accordingly, the Bank could incur significant liability beyond its primary obligation under consolidated obligations due to the failure of other FHLBanks to meet their obligations, which could negatively impact the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations.

As of December 31, 2019,2021, the Bank has an issuer credit rating of Aaa/P-1 by Moody's Investors Service (Moody’s) and AA+/A-1+ by Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P). The consolidated obligations of the FHLBanks (consolidated bonds and

consolidated discount notes) carry credit ratings of Aaa/P-1 by Moody’s and AA+/A-1+ by S&P. All ratings are with a stable outlook. Because of the FHLBanks’ GSE status, the credit ratings of the FHLBank System and the FHLBanks are directly influenced by the sovereign credit of the U.S., which is beyond the Bank’s control. Downgrades to the U.S. sovereign credit rating and outlook would likely result in downgrades in the credit ratings and outlook on the Bank and the consolidated obligations of the FHLBanks even though the consolidated obligations are not obligations of the United States.

These ratings are subject to revision or withdrawal at any time by the rating agencies; therefore, the Bank may not be able to maintain these credit ratings. Negative ratings actions or negative guidance, including as a consequence of U.S. debt levels, the U.S. fiscal budget process, or other uncertainties may adversely affect the Bank’s cost of funds and ability to issue consolidated obligations or other financial instruments on acceptable terms, trigger additional collateral requirements under the Bank’s derivative contracts, and reduce the attractiveness of the Bank’s standby letters of credit. This could have a negative impact on the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations, including the Bank’s ability to make advances on acceptable terms, pay dividends, or redeem or repurchase capital stock.

The Bank makes significant use of business and financial models for managing risk. For example, the Bank uses models to measure and monitor exposures to various risks, including interest rate, prepayment, and other market risks, as well as credit risk. The Bank also uses models in determining the fair value of certain financial instruments when independent price quotations are not available or reliable. The degree of judgment in determining the fair value of a financial instrument is dependent upon the availability of quoted market prices or observable market parameters. If market quotes are not available, fair values are based on discounted cash flows using market estimates of interest rates and volatility, dealer prices or prices of similar instruments. Pricing models and their underlying assumptions are based on the Bank’s best estimates for discount rates, prepayments, market volatility, and other factors. These assumptions may have a significant effect on the reported fair values of assets and liabilities, including derivatives, the related income and expense, and the expected future behavior of assets and liabilities.

While models used by the Bank to value instruments and measure risk exposures are subject to periodic validation by the Bank’s staff and independent parties, rapid changes in market conditions could impact the value of the Bank’s instruments, as well as the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations. Models are inherently imperfect predictors of actual results because they are based on assumptions about future performance. Changes in any models or in any of the assumptions, judgments, or estimates used in the models may cause the results generated by the model to be materially different from actual results.

If the models are not reliable or the Bank does not use them appropriately, the Bank could make poor business decisions, including asset and liability management decisions, or other decisions, which could result in an adverse financial impact. Further, any strategies that the Bank employs to attempt to manage the risks associated with the use of models may not be effective.

Like many financial institutions, the Bank has seen an increase in cyberattack attempts. For the Bank, these attempts have predominantly occurred through phishing, and social engineering scams, and ransomware. The Bank’s operations rely on the availability and functioning of its main office and off-site backup facilities. The Bank devotes substantial resources and deploys preventative measures to secure the Bank’s systems, including firewalls, email security, and anti-virus solutions. These measures, or the Bank’s system redundancies and other continuity measures, may be ineffective or insufficient, and the Bank’s business continuity and disaster recovery planning may not be sufficient for all eventualities. A failure or interruption in our business continuity, disaster recovery or certain information systems, or a cybersecurity event, could significantly harm the Bank’s reputation, its customer relations, risk management, and profitability, and could result in financial losses, legal and regulatory sanctions, increased costs, or other harm. While the Bank maintains insurance coverage that is intended to address certain aspects of data security risks, such insurance may be insufficient to cover all losses or types of claims that may arise. As cyber threats continue to evolve, the Bank may be required to expend significant additional resources to continue to modify or enhance its layers of defense, to investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities, or to comply with regulatory requirements.

Additionally, the Bank relies on the Office of Finance to facilitate the issuance and servicing of its consolidated obligations. A failure or interruption of the Office of Finance's operating systems as a result of breaches of technology security or cyberattacks could disrupt the Bank’s access to funds, and could significantly harm the Bank’s reputation, its customer relations, risk management, and profitability, and could result in financial losses, legal and regulatory sanctions, increased costs, or other harm.

The Bank may fail to identify and manage risks related to a variety of aspects of its business, including operational risk, legal and compliance risk, interest-rate risk, liquidity risk, market risk, and credit risk. The Bank has adopted controls, procedures, policies, and systems to monitor and manage these risks. The Bank’s management cannot provide complete assurance that those controls, procedures, policies, and systems are adequate to identify and manage the risks inherent in the Bank’s business. In addition, because the Bank’s business continues to evolve, the Bank may fail to fully understand the implications of changes in the business, and therefore, it may fail to enhance the Bank’s risk governance framework to timely or adequately address those changes. Failed or inadequate controls and risk management practices could have an adverse effect on the Bank’s financial condition and results of operations.

None.

The Bank owns approximately 235,514 square feet of office space at 1475 Peachtree Street, NE, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. The Bank occupies approximately 219,260213,344 square feet of this space and leases the remaining space to tenants. The Bank leases an off-site backup facilities comprising approximately 9,402 square feet for the Bank’s disaster recovery center.office space. The Bank also leases 2,993 square feet of office space located in Washington, D.C., which is shared with two other FHLBanks. The Bank’s management believes these facilities are well maintained and are adequate for the purposes for which they currently are used.

Not applicable.

The Bank’s members own substantially all of the capital stock of the Bank. Former members and certain non-members, which own the Bank’s capital stock as a result of a merger or acquisition of the Bank’s member, own the remaining capital stock to support business transactions still carried on the Bank’s balance sheet. The Bank’s capital stock is not publicly traded or quoted, and there is no established marketplace for it, nor does the Bank expect a market to develop. The FHLBank Act and the Bank’s capital plan prohibit the trading of its capital stock, except in connection with merger or acquisition activity.

A member may request in writing that the Bank redeem its excess capital stock at par value. Excess capital stock is FHLBank capital stock not required to be held by the member to meet its minimum stock requirement under an FHLBank’s capital plan. Any such redemption request is subject to a five yearfive-year redemption period after the Bank receives the request, subject to certain regulatory requirements and to the satisfaction of any ongoing stock investment requirements applicable to the member. In addition, any member may withdraw from membership upon five years written notice to the Bank. Subject to the member’s satisfaction of any outstanding indebtedness and other statutory requirements, the Bank redeems the member’s capital stock at par value upon withdrawal from membership. The Bank, in its discretion, may repurchase shares held by a member in excess of its required stock holdings, subject to certain limitations and thresholds in the Bank’s capital plan. The par value of all capital stock is $100 per share, and the operating threshold for daily excess capital stock repurchases is $100 thousand. As of February 29, 2020,28, 2022, the Bank had 814811 member and non-member shareholders and 4925 million shares of its capital stock outstanding (including mandatorily redeemable shares).

Finance Agency regulations prohibit any FHLBank from issuing dividends in the form of capital stock or otherwise issuing new excess capital stock if that FHLBank has excess capital stock greater than one percent of that FHLBank’s total assets or if issuing such dividends or new excess capital stock would cause that FHLBank to exceed the one percent excess capital stock limitation. As of December 31, 2019,2021, the Bank’s excess capital stock did not exceed one percent of its total assets. Historically, the Bank has not issued dividends in the form of capital stock or issued new excess capital stock, and a member’s existing excess activity-based stock is applied to any activity-based stock requirements related to new advances.advances or standby letters of credit, as applicable.

Because only members, former members, and certain non-member institutions, not individuals, may own the Bank’s capital stock, the Bank has no equity compensation plans.

The Bank also issues standby letters of credit in the ordinary course of its business. From time to time, the Bank provides standby letters of credit to support members’ obligations, members’ standby letters of credit, or obligations issued to support unaffiliated, third-party offerings of notes, bonds, or other securities. The Bank issued $49.6$19.9 billion, $39.2$43.0 billion, and $40.7$49.6 billion in standby letters of credit in 2019, 2018,2021, 2020, and 2017,2019, respectively. To the extent that these standby letters of credit are securities for purposes of the Securities Act of 1933, the issuance of the standby letter of credit by the Bank is exempt from registration pursuant to section 3(a)(2) thereof.

The following discussion and analysis relates to the Bank’s financial condition as of December 31, 20192021 and 2018,2020, and results of operations for the years ended December 31, 20192021 and 2018.2020. This section explains the changes in certain key items in the Bank’s financial statements from year to year, the primary factors driving those changes, the Bank’s risk management processes and results, known trends or uncertainties that the Bank believes may have a material effect on the Bank’s future performance, as well as how certain accounting principles affect the Bank’s financial statements. For a discussion on the comparison between the results of operations for the years ended 20182020 and 2017,2019, see the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, which are contained in the Bank’s 20182020 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed with the SEC on March 7, 2019.4, 2021.

The following table presents the Bank’s significant income ratios for the years presented. These items are discussed in the fair value of the hedge item) was recorded in noninterest income as net (losses) gains on derivatives and hedging activities.more detail below.

The following table presents more detailed information regarding investments held by the Bank (dollars in millions).