UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
  ____________________________________
FORM 10-Q
  __________________________________________________________________________________________
 
xQUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended March 31, 20192020
OR
oTRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
Commission File Number: 000-51398
FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK OF SAN FRANCISCO
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
  _______________________________________________________________________________
 Federally chartered corporation 94-6000630 
 
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 
(I.R.S. employer
identification number)
 
  
333 Bush Street, Suite 2700   
 
600 California Street
San Francisco,
CA 9410894104 
 (Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code) 
(415) (415) 616-1000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:
 Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered 
    
  _______________________________________________________________________________

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing for the past 90 days.    x  Yes    oYes  No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    x  Yes    oYes  No
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filer o

 Accelerated filer o
    
Non-accelerated filer x Smaller reporting company o
       
    Emerging growth company o

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.      o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    o  Yes    x No
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934:
Indicate the number of shares outstanding of each of the issuer’s classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
 Shares Outstanding as of April 30, 20192020
Class B Stock, par value $10033,208,97932,006,983

Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Form 10-Q
Index
PART I.   
   
Item 1.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Item 2.  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
Item 3.  
   
Item 4.  
   
PART II.   
   
Item 1.  
   
Item 1A.  
Item 5.
   
Item 6.  
  
 

PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Condition
(Unaudited)
(In millions-except par value)March 31,
2020

 December 31,
2019

Assets:   
Cash and due from banks$328
 $118
Interest-bearing deposits3,577
 2,269
Securities purchased under agreements to resell2,000
 7,000
Federal funds sold10,081
 3,562
Trading securities(a)
4,319
 1,766
Available-for-sale (AFS) securities, net (amortized cost of $16,427 and $15,206, respectively)(b)
16,175
 15,495
Held-to-maturity (HTM) securities (fair values were $6,867 and $7,566, respectively)(a)
6,864
 7,545
Advances (includes $4,334 and $4,370 at fair value under the fair value option, respectively)77,872
 65,374
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net3,239
 3,314
Accrued interest receivable139
 139
Derivative assets, net62
 33
Other assets214
 227
Total Assets$124,870
 $106,842
Liabilities:   
Deposits$721
 $537
Consolidated obligations:   
Bonds (includes $254 and $337 at fair value under the fair value option, respectively)77,937
 71,372
Discount notes39,102
 27,376
Total consolidated obligations117,039
 98,748
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock83
 138
Accrued interest payable121
 164
Affordable Housing Program (AHP) payable133
 152
Other liabilities366
 362
Total Liabilities118,463
 100,101
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 13)



Capital:   
Capital stock—Class B—Putable ($100 par value) issued and outstanding:   
32 shares and 30 shares, respectively3,231
 3,000
Unrestricted retained earnings2,691
 2,754
Restricted retained earnings713
 713
Total Retained Earnings3,404
 3,467
Accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) (AOCI)(228) 274
Total Capital6,407
 6,741
Total Liabilities and Capital$124,870
 $106,842
(In millions-except par value)March 31,
2019

 December 31,
2018

Assets:   
Cash and due from banks$19
 $13
Interest-bearing deposits1,580
 2,555
Securities purchased under agreements to resell8,250
 7,300
Federal funds sold7,235
 3,845
Trading securities(a)
610
 661
Available-for-sale (AFS) securities(a)
8,436
 6,931
Held-to-maturity (HTM) securities (fair values were $10,370 and $11,047, respectively)(a)
10,383
 11,089
Advances (includes $5,053 and $5,133 at fair value under the fair value option, respectively)70,262
 73,434
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net of allowance for credit losses of $0 and $0, respectively3,160
 3,066
Accrued interest receivable199
 133
Derivative assets, net246
 185
Other assets197
 114
Total Assets$110,577
 $109,326
Liabilities:   
Deposits$310
 $262
Consolidated obligations:   
Bonds (includes $1,191 and $2,019 at fair value under the fair value option, respectively)74,094
 72,276
Discount notes28,281
 29,182
Total consolidated obligations102,375
 101,458
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock227
 227
Borrowings from other Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks)
 250
Accrued interest payable185
 155
Affordable Housing Program (AHP) payable177
 182
Derivative liabilities, net1
 10
Other liabilities656
 252
Total Liabilities103,931
 102,796
Commitments and Contingencies (Note 17)



Capital:   
Capital stock—Class B—Putable ($100 par value) issued and outstanding:   
30 shares and 29 shares, respectively2,959
 2,949
Unrestricted retained earnings2,732
 2,699
Restricted retained earnings668
 647
Total Retained Earnings3,400
 3,346
Accumulated other comprehensive income/(loss) (AOCI)287
 235
Total Capital6,646
 6,530
Total Liabilities and Capital$110,577
 $109,326

(a)At March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, none of these securities were pledged as collateral that may be repledged.

(b)At March 31, 2020, $643 of these securities were pledged as collateral that may be repledged. At December 31, 2019, $381 of these securities were pledged as collateral that may be repledged.
The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Income
(Unaudited)
Three Months Ended March 31,Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2019
 2018
2020
 2019
Interest Income:      
Advances$498
 $369
$279
 $498
Interest-bearing deposits14
 4
12
 14
Securities purchased under agreements to resell45
 9
18
 45
Federal funds sold41
 51
14
 41
Trading securities4
 4
16
 4
AFS securities79
 57
51
 79
HTM securities79
 81
44
 79
Mortgage loans held for portfolio26
 21
(1) 26
Total Interest Income786
 596
433
 786
Interest Expense:      
Consolidated obligations:      
Bonds455
 307
276
 455
Discount notes181
 134
104
 181
Deposits2
 1
2
 2
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock4
 6
2
 4
Total Interest Expense642
 448
384
 642
Net Interest Income144
 148
49
 144
Provision for/(reversal of) credit losses on mortgage loans
 
Net Interest Income After Mortgage Loan Loss Provision144
 148
Provision for/(reversal of) credit losses39
 
Net Interest Income After Provision for/(Reversal of) Credit Losses10
 144
Other Income/(Loss):      
Total other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI) loss(1) (3)
Net amount of OTTI loss reclassified to/(from) AOCI
 2
Net OTTI loss, credit-related(1) (1)
Net gain/(loss) on trading securities(1) (1)73
 (1)
Net gain/(loss) on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under fair value option39
 (41)89
 39
Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities(28) 31
(147) (28)
Other6
 4
Other, net3
 5
Total Other Income/(Loss)15
 (8)18
 15
Other Expense:      
Compensation and benefits20
 21
21
 20
Other operating expense13
 14
12
 13
Federal Housing Finance Agency2
 1
2
 2
Office of Finance2
 2
1
 2
Quality Jobs Fund expense5
 10

 5
Other, net1
 1

 1
Total Other Expense43
 49
36
 43
Income/(Loss) Before Assessment116
 91
(8) 116
AHP Assessment12
 10

 12
Net Income/(Loss)$104
 $81
$(8) $104

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.


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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Comprehensive Income
(Unaudited)
 Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2019
 2018
Net Income/(Loss)$104
 $81
Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss):   
Net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities38
 
Net change in pension and postretirement benefits
 1
Net non-credit-related OTTI gain/(loss) on AFS securities:   
Net change in fair value of other-than-temporarily impaired securities14
 17
Net amount of OTTI loss reclassified to/(from) other income/(loss)
 (2)
Total net non-credit-related OTTI gain/(loss) on AFS securities14
 15
Net non-credit-related OTTI gain/(loss) on HTM securities:   
Accretion of non-credit-related OTTI loss
 1
Total net non-credit-related OTTI gain/(loss) on HTM securities
 1
Total other comprehensive income/(loss)52
 17
Total Comprehensive Income/(Loss)$156
 $98
 Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2020
 2019
Net Income/(Loss)$(8) $104
Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss):   
Net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities(502) 38
Net non-credit-related OTTI gain/(loss) on AFS securities
 14
Total other comprehensive income/(loss)(502) 52
Total Comprehensive Income/(Loss)$(510) $156

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.


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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Capital Accounts
(Unaudited)
Capital Stock
Class B—Putable
 Retained Earnings   
Total
Capital

Capital Stock
Class B—Putable
 Retained Earnings   
Total
Capital

(In millions)Shares
 Par Value
 Restricted
 Unrestricted
 Total
 AOCI
 Shares
 Par Value
 Restricted
 Unrestricted
 Total
 AOCI
 
Balance, December 31, 201732
 $3,243
 $575
 $2,670
 $3,245
 $318
 $6,806
Comprehensive income/(loss)    17
 64
 81
 17
 98
Issuance of capital stock3
 253
         253
Repurchase of capital stock(4) (428)         (428)
Cash dividends paid on capital stock (7.00%)      (53) (53)   (53)
Balance, March 31, 201831
 $3,068
 $592
 $2,681
 $3,273
 $335
 $6,676
             
Balance, December 31, 201829
 $2,949
 $647
 $2,699
 $3,346
 $235
 $6,530
29
 $2,949
 $647
 $2,699
 $3,346
 $235
 $6,530
Comprehensive income/(loss)

 

 21
 83
 104
 52
 156
    21
 83
 104
 52
 156
Issuance of capital stock4
 354
 
 
   
 354
4
 354
         354
Repurchase of capital stock(3) (344) 
 
   
 (344)(3) (344)         (344)
Cash dividends paid on capital stock (7.00%)
 

 
 (50) (50) 
 (50)      (50) (50)   (50)
Balance, March 31, 201930
 $2,959
 $668
 $2,732
 $3,400
 $287
 $6,646
30
 $2,959
 $668
 $2,732
 $3,400
 $287
 $6,646
             
Balance, December 31, 201930
 $3,000
 $713
 $2,754
 $3,467
 $274
 $6,741
Adjustment for cumulative effect of accounting change      (3) (3)   (3)
Comprehensive income/(loss)

 

 
 (8) (8) (502) (510)
Issuance of capital stock6
 607
 
 
   
 607
Repurchase of capital stock(4) (373) 
 
   
 (373)
Capital stock reclassified from/(to) mandatorily redeemable capital stock, net
 (3) 

 

   

 (3)
Cash dividends paid on capital stock (7.00%)
 

 
 (52) (52) 
 (52)
Balance, March 31, 202032
 $3,231
 $713
 $2,691
 $3,404
 $(228) $6,407

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
 Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2019
 2018
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:   
Net Income/(Loss)$104
 $81
Adjustments to reconcile net income/(loss) to net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities:   
Depreciation and amortization5
 4
Change in net fair value of trading securities1
 1
Change in net fair value adjustment on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under the fair value option(39) 41
Change in net derivatives and hedging activities(128) 141
Net OTTI loss, credit-related1
 1
Other adjustments2
 
Net change in:   
Accrued interest receivable(65) (20)
Other assets(6) 
Accrued interest payable26
 8
Other liabilities(11) (16)
Total adjustments(214) 160
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities(110) 241
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:   
Net change in:   
Interest-bearing deposits850
 (99)
Securities purchased under agreements to resell(950) 5,500
Federal funds sold(3,390) (2,922)
Trading securities:   
Proceeds from maturities of long-term50
 250
AFS securities:   
Proceeds from maturities of long-term133
 183
Purchases of long-term(1,119) 
HTM securities:   
Net (increase)/decrease in short-term
 500
Proceeds from maturities of long-term709
 652
Purchases of long-term
 (433)
Advances:   
Repaid408,394
 525,362
Originated(405,074) (514,739)
Mortgage loans held for portfolio:   
Principal collected75
 72
Purchases(174) (369)
Other investing activities(7) 
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities(503) 13,957


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 Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2020
 2019
Cash Flows from Operating Activities:   
Net Income/(Loss)$(8) $104
Adjustments to reconcile net income/(loss) to net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities:   
Depreciation and amortization22
 5
Provision for/(reversal of) credit losses39
 
Change in net fair value of trading securities(73) 1
Change in net fair value adjustment on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under the fair value option(89) (39)
Change in net derivatives and hedging activities(804) (128)
Other adjustments1
 3
Net change in:   
Accrued interest receivable
 (65)
Other assets10
 (6)
Accrued interest payable(43) 26
Other liabilities(48) (11)
Total adjustments(985) (214)
Net cash provided by/(used in) operating activities(993) (110)
Cash Flows from Investing Activities:   
Net change in:   
Interest-bearing deposits(2,011) 850
Securities purchased under agreements to resell5,000
 (950)
Federal funds sold(6,519) (3,390)
Trading securities:   
Proceeds
 50
Purchases(2,480) 
AFS securities:   
Proceeds120
 133
Purchases(403) (1,119)
HTM securities:   
Proceeds681
 709
Advances:   
Repaid291,662
 408,394
Originated(303,461) (405,074)
Mortgage loans held for portfolio:   
Principal collected321
 75
Purchases(278) (174)
Other investing activities, net
 (7)
Net cash provided by/(used in) investing activities(17,368) (503)

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Statements of Cash Flows (continued)
(Unaudited)

Three Months Ended March 31,Three Months Ended March 31,
(In millions)2019
 2018
2020
 2019
Cash Flows from Financing Activities:      
Net change in deposits and other financing activities28
 (14)188
 28
Borrowings from other FHLBanks(250) 
Net change in borrowings from other Federal Home Loan Banks
 (250)
Net (payments)/proceeds on derivative contracts with financing elements11
 
(4) 11
Net proceeds from issuance of consolidated obligations:      
Bonds22,935
 17,046
26,053
 22,935
Discount notes30,881
 37,299
62,055
 30,881
Payments for matured and retired consolidated obligations: 
    
Bonds(21,148)
(27,760)(19,518) (21,148)
Discount notes(31,798)
(40,557)(50,327) (31,798)
Proceeds from issuance of capital stock354

253
607
 354
Payments for repurchase/redemption of mandatorily redeemable capital stock(58) 
Payments for repurchase of capital stock(344) (428)(373) (344)
Cash dividends paid(50)
(53)(52) (50)
Net cash provided by/(used in) financing activities619

(14,214)18,571
 619
Net increase/(decrease) in cash and due from banks6

(16)210
 6
Cash and due from banks at beginning of the period13
 31
118
 13
Cash and due from banks at end of the period$19

$15
$328
 $19
Supplemental Disclosures:      
Interest paid$594
 $416
$422
 $594
AHP payments18
 16
19
 18

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these financial statements.

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Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
Notes to Financial Statements
(Unaudited)





(Dollars in millions except per share amounts)

Note 1 — Basis of Presentation
The information about the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (Bank) included in these unaudited financial statements reflects all adjustments that, in the opinion of the Bank, are necessary for a fair statement of results for the periods presented. These adjustments are of a recurring nature, unless otherwise disclosed. The results of operations in these interim statements are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for any subsequent period or for the entire year ending December 31, 2019.2020. These unaudited financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Bank’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 (20182019 (2019 Form 10‑K).
There have been no changes to the basis of presentation of the Bank’s financial instruments meeting netting requirements or of the Bank’s investments in variable interest entities disclosed in the “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” sectionin the Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K.
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Beginning January 1, 2020, the Bank adopted new accounting guidance related to the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments that requires a financial asset or group of financial assets measured at amortized cost to be presented at the net amount expected to be collected. The new guidance also requires credit losses relating to these financial instruments as well as available-for-sale (AFS) securities to be recorded through the allowance for credit losses. Key changes as compared to prior accounting guidance are detailed below. Consistent with the modified retrospective method of adoption, the prior period has not been revised to conform to the new basis of accounting. For information on the prior accounting treatment and for descriptions of the Bank’s 2018significant accounting policies, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K. Other changes to these policies as of March 31, 2020, are discussed in Note 2 – Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Guidance.
Use of Estimates. The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (U.S. GAAP) requires management to make a number of judgments, estimates, and assumptions that may affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, and the reported amounts of income, expenses, gains, and losses during the reporting period. The most significant of these estimates include estimating the allowance for credit losses on the advances and mortgage loan portfolios; include:
accounting for derivatives;
estimating fair values of investments classified as trading and available-for-sale,AFS, derivatives and associated hedged items carried at fair value in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and associated hedging activities, and financial instruments carried at fair value under the fair value option,option; and accounting for other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI) for investment securities; and
estimating the prepayment speeds on mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and mortgage loans for the accounting of amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts and credit losses previously recorded prior to the adoption of new accounting guidance related to the measurement of credit losses on MBS and mortgage loans.
Actual results could differ significantly from these estimates.
DerivativesInterest-bearing Deposits, Securities Purchased under Agreements to Resell, and Hedging Activities.Federal Funds Sold. All derivativesThe Bank invests in interest-bearing deposits, securities purchased under agreements to resell, and Federal funds sold. These investments provide short-term liquidity and are recognizedcarried at cost. Accrued interest receivable is recorded separately on the Statements of Condition at their fair values andCondition.
These investments are reported as either derivative assets or derivative liabilities, net of cash collateral, and accrued interest received from or pledged to clearing agents or counterparties.
Beginning January 1, 2019, the Bank prospectively adopted new hedge accounting guidance, which, among other things, affected the presentation of gains and losses on derivatives and hedging activitiesevaluated quarterly for qualifying hedges. Upon adoption, changes in the fair value ofexpected credit losses. If applicable, an allowance for credit loss is recorded with a derivative that is designated as a fair value hedge, along with changes in the fair value of the hedged asset or liability (hedged item) that are attributablecorresponding adjustment to the hedged risk (including changes that reflect losses or gains on firm commitments), are recorded in net interest income in the same line as the earnings effect of the hedged item. Net gains and losses on derivatives and hedging activities for qualifying hedges recorded in net interest income include unrealized and realized gains and losses, which include net interest settlements. For available-for-sale (AFS)provision for/(reversal of) credit losses. The Bank treats securities that have been hedged and qualify as a fair value hedge, the Bank records the portion of the change in the fair value of the investment related to the risk being hedged in interest income together with the related change in the fair value of the derivative, and records the remainder of the change in the fair value of the investment in Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI) as “Net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities.”
Prior to January 1, 2019, for fair value hedges, any hedge ineffectiveness (which represented the amount by which the change in the fair value of the derivative differed from the change in the fair value of the hedged item) was recorded in other income as “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities.” For AFS securities that were hedged and qualified as a fair value hedge, the Bank recorded the portion of the change in the fair value of the investment related to the risk being hedged in other income as “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)



activities” togetherpurchased under agreements to resell as collateralized financing arrangements because they effectively represent short-term loans to counterparties that are considered by the Bank to be of investment quality, which are classified as assets in the Statements of Condition. Securities purchased under agreements to resell are held in safekeeping in the name of the Bank by third-party custodians approved by the Bank. In accordance with the related changeterms of these loans, if the market value of the underlying securities decreases below the market value required as collateral, the counterparty must place an equivalent amount of additional securities as collateral or remit an equivalent amount of cash. Consequently, a credit loss would be recognized if there is a collateral shortfall which the Bank does not believe the counterparty will replenish in accordance with its contractual terms. The credit loss would be limited to the difference between the fair value of the derivative,collateral and recorded the remainderinvestment’s cost. The Bank invests in Federal funds sold with counterparties that are considered by the Bank to be of investment quality.
See Note 3 – Investments for details on the changeallowance methodologies relating to interest-bearing deposits, securities purchased under agreements to resell, and Federal funds sold.
Investment Securities. On a quarterly basis, the Bank evaluates its individual AFS investment securities in an unrealized loss position for impairment. A security is considered impaired when its fair value is less than its amortized cost basis. With respect to any debt security, a credit loss is defined as the fairamount by which the amortized cost basis exceeds the present value of the investmentcash flows expected to be collected. If a credit loss exists but the entity does not intend to sell the debt security and it is not more likely than not that the entity will be required to sell the debt security before the anticipated recovery of its remaining amortized cost basis (the amortized cost basis less any current-period credit loss), an allowance for credit losses is recorded with a corresponding adjustment to the provision for/(reversal of) credit losses. The allowance is limited by the amount of the unrealized loss. Accrued interest receivable is recorded separately on the Statements of Condition. The allowance for credit losses excludes uncollectible accrued interest receivable, which is measured separately.
If management intends to sell an impaired security classified as AFS, or more likely than not will be required to sell the security before expected recovery of its amortized cost basis, any allowance for credit losses is written off and the amortized cost basis is written down to the security’s fair value at the reporting date with any incremental impairment reported in AOCIearnings as “Netnet unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities.
Descriptions If management does not intend to sell an impaired security classified as AFS and it is not more likely than not that management will be required to sell the debt security, then the credit portion of the difference is recognized as an allowance for credit losses and any remaining difference between the security’s fair value and amortized cost is recorded to net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities within other comprehensive income/(loss).
Prior to January 1, 2020, credit losses were recorded as a direct write-down of the AFS security carrying value. For improvements in cash flows of AFS securities, interest income follows the recognition pattern pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, and recoveries of amounts previously written off are recorded when received. AFS securities with a credit loss recognized pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, continue to follow the prior accounting until maturity or disposition. For improvements in impaired AFS securities with an allowance for credit losses recognized after the adoption of the new guidance, the allowance for credit losses associated with recoveries may be derecognized up to its full amount. Effective January 1, 2020, the net non-credit-related other-than-temporary impairment (OTTI) gain/(loss) on AFS securities was reclassified to net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities within other comprehensive income/(loss).
Held-to-maturity (HTM) securities are carried at cost, adjusted for periodic principal repayments, amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts, and previous credit loss recognized in net income and Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (AOCI) recorded prior to January 1, 2020. On a quarterly basis, the Bank evaluates its HTM investment securities for expected credit losses on a pool basis unless an individual assessment is deemed necessary because the securities do not possess similar risk characteristics. If necessary, an allowance for credit losses is recorded with a corresponding adjustment to the provision for/(reversal of) credit losses. Prior to January 1, 2020, credit losses were recorded as a direct write-down of the HTM security carrying value. Accrued interest

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receivable is recorded separately on the Statements of Condition. The allowance for credit losses excludes uncollectible accrued interest receivable, which is measured separately.
For improvements in HTM securities impaired prior to January 1, 2020, interest income continues to follow the recognition pattern pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, and recoveries of amounts previously written off are recorded when received. For improvements in impaired HTM securities with an allowance for credit losses recognized after the adoption of the new guidance, the allowance for credit losses associated with recoveries may be derecognized up to its full amount.
See Note 3 – Investments for details on the allowance methodologies relating to AFS and HTM securities.
Advances. The Bank reports advances (loans to members, former members or their successors or housing associates) either at amortized cost or at fair value when the fair value option is elected. Advances carried at amortized cost are reported net of premiums, discounts (including discounts related to the Affordable Housing Program), and hedging adjustments. Accrued interest receivable is recorded separately on the Statements of Condition. The advances carried at amortized cost are evaluated quarterly for expected credit losses. If deemed necessary, an allowance for credit losses is recorded with a corresponding adjustment to the provision for/(reversal of) credit losses. See Note 4 – Advances for details on the allowance methodologies relating to advances.
Mortgage Loans Held for Portfolio. The Bank classifies mortgage loans as held for investment and, accordingly, reports them at their principal amount outstanding net of unamortized premiums, unamortized credit enhancement fees paid as a lump sum at the time loans are purchased, discounts, and unrealized gains and losses from loans initially classified as mortgage loan commitments. The Bank performs a quarterly assessment of its mortgage loans held for portfolio to estimate expected credit losses. An allowance for credit losses is recorded with a corresponding adjustment to the provision for/(reversal of) credit losses.
The Bank measures expected credit losses on mortgage loans on a collective basis, pooling loans with similar risk characteristics. If a mortgage loan no longer shares risk characteristics with other loans, it is removed from the pool and evaluated for expected credit losses on an individual basis.
When developing the allowance for credit losses, the Bank measures the estimated loss over the remaining life of a mortgage loan, which also considers how the Bank’s significantcredit enhancements mitigate credit losses. The Bank includes estimates of expected recoveries within the allowance for credit losses. If a loan is purchased at a discount, the discount does not offset the allowance for credit losses. Accrued interest receivable is recorded separately on the Statements of Condition. The allowance excludes uncollectible accrued interest receivable, as the Bank writes off accrued interest receivable by reversing interest income if a mortgage loan is placed on nonaccrual status.
The Bank does not purchase mortgage loans with credit deterioration present at the time of purchase. See Note 5 – Mortgage Loans Held for Portfolio for details on the allowance methodologies relating to mortgage loans. For more information related to the Bank’s accounting policies are included infor the Mortgage Partnership Finance® (MPF®) Program, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K. Other changes(“Mortgage Partnership Finance,” “MPF,” and “MPF Xtra” are registered trademarks of the FHLBank of Chicago.)
Off-Balance Sheet Credit Exposures. The Bank evaluates its off-balance sheet credit exposures on a quarterly basis for expected credit losses. If deemed necessary, an allowance for expected credit losses on these off-balance sheet exposures is recorded in other liabilities with a corresponding adjustment to these policies asthe provision for/(reversal of) credit losses. See Note 13 – Commitments and Contingencies for details on the allowance methodologies relating to off-balance sheet credit exposure.

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Note 2 — Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Guidance
The following table provides a summary of recently issued accounting standards whichthat may have an effect on the financial statements.
Accounting Standards Update (ASU) Description Effective Date Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (ASU 2020-04)
This guidance provides temporary optional guidance to ease the potential burden in accounting for reference rate reform. The new guidance provides optional expedients and exceptions for applying generally accepted accounting principles to transactions affected by reference rate reform if certain criteria are met. These transactions include:
• contract modifications,
• hedging relationships, and
• sale or transfer of debt securities classified as HTM.
This guidance is effective immediately for the Bank, and the Bank may elect to apply the amendments prospectively through December 31, 2022.The Bank is in the process of evaluating the guidance. Its effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows has not yet been determined.
Customer's Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract (ASU 2018-15)

 This guidance aligns the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred in a hosting arrangement that is a service contract with the requirements for capitalizing implementation costs incurred to develop or obtain internal-use software (and hosting arrangements that include an internal-use software license). This guidance becomesbecame effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The Bank does not intend to adopt this guidance early.was adopted as of January 1, 2020. The adoption of this guidance isdid not expected to have any effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows, or financial statement disclosures.flows.
Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Defined Benefit Plans (ASU 2018-14) This guidance modifies the disclosure requirements for employers that sponsor defined benefit pension or other postretirement plans to improve disclosure effectiveness. This guidance becomes effective for the Bank for the annual period ended December 31, 2020, and the annual periods thereafter. Early adoption is permitted. The Bank does not intend to adopt this guidance early. The adoption of this guidance may affect the Bank’s disclosures but will not have any effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.
Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement (ASU 2018-13) This guidance modifies the disclosure requirements for fair value measurements to improve disclosure effectiveness. This guidance becomesbecame effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The Bank does not intend to adopt this guidance early.was adopted as of January 1, 2020. The adoption of this guidance may affectimpacted the Bank’s disclosures but willdid not have any effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.


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Accounting Standards Update (ASU) Description Effective Date Effect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments, as amended (ASU 2016-13) The guidance replaces the current incurred loss impairment model and requires entities to measure expected credit losses based on consideration of a broad range of relevant information, including historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts that affect the collectability of the reported amount. The guidance also requires, among other things, credit losses relating to AFS securities to be recorded through an allowance for credit losses and expands disclosure requirements. This guidance isbecame effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The Bank does not intend to adopt theThis guidance early. Based on the Bank’s preliminary assessments,was adopted using a modified retrospective basis as of January 1, 2020. Upon adoption, this guidance is expected to havehad no effect on advances or U.S. obligations and GSE investments andGovernment-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) investments. The adoption of this guidance had an immaterial effect on the remaining investment portfolio given the specific terms, issuer guarantees, and collateralized/securitized nature of these instruments. The Bank is in the process of assessing the effect of this guidanceinstruments, on its mortgage loans, on the financial statements. However, the ultimate effectand on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows will depend on the composition of financial assets held by the Bank at the adoption date, as well as on economic conditions and forecasts at that time.
Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities (ASU 2017-12)
This guidance amends the accounting for derivatives and hedging activities to better portray the economic results of an entity’s risk management activities in its financial statements.

In October 2018, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued amendments to the guidance that permit the use of the overnight index swap rate based on the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) as an eligible U.S. benchmark interest rate for hedge accounting purposes to facilitate the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to SOFR transition.
This guidance became effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2019.The guidance was applied as of January 1, 2019. Upon adoption, the Bank modified the presentation of fair value hedge results on the Bank’s Statements of Income, as well as relevant disclosures, prospectively. However, the adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. The Bank will continue to assess opportunities to expand its eligible hedge strategies in the future.
Premium Amortization on Purchased Callable Debt Securities (ASU 2017-08)This guidance shortens the amortization period for certain purchased callable debt securities held at a premium to be amortized to the earliest call date rather than contractual maturity. This guidance does not require an accounting change for securities held at a discount, which continue to be amortized to their contractual maturity.This guidance became effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2019.This guidance was adopted using a modified retrospective basis as of January 1, 2019. The adoption of this guidance did not have any effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

Note 3 — Investments
The Bank makes short-term investments in interest-bearing deposits, securities purchased under agreements to resell, and Federal funds sold, and may make other investments in debt securities, which are classified as either trading, AFS, or HTM.
Interest-Bearing Deposits, Securities Purchased under Agreements to Resell, and Federal Funds Sold. The Bank invests in interest-bearing deposits, securities purchased under agreements to resell, and Federal funds sold to provide short-term liquidity. These investments are generally transacted with counterparties that have received an investment grade credit rating of BBB or greater by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO). At March 31, 2020, none of these investments were with counterparties rated below BBB, and approximately 1% were with unrated counterparties. These may differ from any internal ratings of the investments by the Bank, if applicable.
Federal funds sold are unsecured loans that are generally transacted on an overnight term. Federal Finance Housing Agency (Finance Agency) regulations include a limit on the amount of unsecured credit the Bank may extend to a counterparty. At March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, all investments in interest-bearing deposits and Federal funds sold were repaid or expected to be repaid according to the contractual terms. No allowance for credit losses was recorded for these assets at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019. Carrying values of interest-bearing deposits and Federal funds sold exclude accrued interest receivable of $2 and a de minimis amount as of March 31, 2020, respectively, and $3 and a de minimis amount as of December 31, 2019, respectively.
Based upon the collateral held as security and collateral maintenance provisions with its counterparties, the Bank determined that no allowance for credit losses was needed for its securities purchased under agreements to resell at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019. The carrying value of securities purchased under agreements excludes de minimis amounts of accrued interest receivable as of March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019.
Debt Securities
The Bank invests in debt securities, which are classified as either trading, AFS, or HTM. Within these investments, the Bank is primarily subject to credit risk related to private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (PLRMBS) that are supported by underlying mortgage loans. The Bank is prohibited by Finance Agency regulations from purchasing certain higher risk securities, such as equity securities and debt instruments that are not investment quality at time of purchase.

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Accounting Standards Update (ASU)DescriptionEffective DateEffect on the Financial Statements or Other Significant Matters
Leases, as amended (ASU 2016-02)
This guidance amends the accounting for lease arrangements. In particular, it requires a lessee of operating and financing leases to recognize a right-of-use asset and a lease liability for leases on the Statements of Condition.

In July 2018, the FASB issued amendments that, among other things, provide entities with an additional transition method to adopt this guidance. The Bank elected to adopt these amendments.
This guidance became effective for the Bank for the interim and annual periods beginning on January 1, 2019.The guidance was adopted using a modified retrospective basis as of January 1, 2019. Upon adoption, the Bank recognized right-of-use assets and lease liabilities on its existing leases on the Statements of Condition. However, the adoption of this guidance did not have a material effect on the Bank’s financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows.

Note 3 — Trading SecuritiesSecurities.
The estimated fair value of trading securities as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, was as follows:
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs) – Federal Farm Credit Bank (FFCB) bonds$605
 $656
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$4,315
 $1,762
MBS – Other U.S. obligations – Ginnie Mae5
 5
4
 4
Total$610
 $661
$4,319
 $1,766

The net unrealized gain/(loss) on trading securities was $(1)$73 and $(1) for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively. These amounts represent the changes in the fair value of the securities during the reported periods.
Note 4 — Available-for-Sale SecuritiesSecurities.
AFS securities by major security type as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, were as follows:
March 31, 2019         
March 31, 2020         
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized in
AOCI

 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 Estimated Fair Value
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
Allowance for Credit Losses(2)

 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 Estimated Fair Value
MBS – GSEs – multifamily:         
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$5,347
 $
 $6
 $
 $5,353
MBS:         
GSEs – multifamily:         
Freddie Mac$663
 $
 $4
 $(1) $666
857
 
 
 (24) 833
Fannie Mae4,712
 
 11
 (8) 4,715
7,991
 
 
 (228) 7,763
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily5,375
 
 15
 (9) 5,381
Subtotal – GSEs – multifamily8,848
 
 
 (252) 8,596
PLRMBS:                  
Prime254
 
 22
 
 276
204
 (6) 2
 (2) 198
Alt-A, option ARM567
 
 129
 
 696
Alt-A, other1,933
 (15) 166
 (1) 2,083
Alt-A2,028
 (33) 97
 (64) 2,028
Subtotal PLRMBS2,754
 (15) 317
 (1) 3,055
2,232
 (39) 99
 (66) 2,226
Total MBS11,080
 (39) 99
 (318) 10,822
Total$8,129
 $(15) $332
 $(10) $8,436
$16,427
 $(39) $105
 $(318) $16,175
December 31, 2019         
 
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized in
AOCI(2)

 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains(3)

 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 Estimated Fair Value
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$5,281
 $
 $7
 $
 $5,288
MBS:         
GSEs – multifamily:         
Freddie Mac773
 
 4
 
 777
Fannie Mae6,823
 
 23
 (13) 6,833
Subtotal – GSEs – multifamily7,596
 
 27
 (13) 7,610
PLRMBS:         
Prime213
 
 17
 
 230
Alt-A2,116
 (9) 260
 
 2,367
Subtotal PLRMBS2,329
 (9) 277
 
 2,597
Total MBS9,925
 (9) 304
 (13) 10,207
Total$15,206
 $(9) $311
 $(13) $15,495
(1)
Amortized cost includes unpaid principal balance, unamortized premiums and discounts, net charge-offs, and valuation adjustments for hedging activities, and excludes accrued interest receivable of $51 and $58 at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, respectively.

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December 31, 2018         
 
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized in
AOCI

 
Gross
Unrealized
Gains

 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses

 Estimated Fair Value
MBS – GSEs – multifamily:         
Freddie Mac$409
 $
 $
 $(2) $407
Fannie Mae3,397
 
 
 (30) 3,367
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily3,806
 
 
 (32) 3,774
PLRMBS:         
Prime267
 
 21
 
 288
Alt-A, option ARM583
 (4) 120
 
 699
Alt-A, other2,020
 (16) 168
 (2) 2,170
Subtotal PLRMBS2,870
 (20) 309
 (2) 3,157
Total$6,676
 $(20) $309
 $(34) $6,931
(1)(2)
Amortized cost includes unpaid principal balance, unamortized premiums and discounts, previousEffective January 1, 2020, the Bank completed an analysis to determine whether to record an allowance for credit losses for expected credit losses on AFS securities. Prior to January 1, 2020, credit losses were recorded as a direct write-down to the AFS security carrying value. OTTI recognized in earnings, and valuation adjustments for hedging activities.
AOCI excludes subsequent unrealized gains/(losses) in fair value of previously other-than-temporarily impaired AFS securities at December 31, 2019, which is included in net non-credit-related OTTI on AFS securities.
(3)Includes $277 in subsequent unrealized gains in fair value of previously other-than-temporarily impaired AFS securities at December 31, 2019.
Expected maturitiesAt March 31, 2020, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may haveclassified as AFS included premiums of $68, discounts of $50, and credit-related OTTI of $547 for AFS securities with an OTTI recognized pursuant to the rightimpairment guidance in effect prior to call or prepay the underlying obligations with or without call or prepayment fees.
January 1, 2020. At MarchDecember 31, 2019, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS classified as AFS included premiums of $40,$65, discounts of $53,$52, and credit-related OTTI of $659. At December 31, 2018, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS classified as AFS included premiums of $19, discounts of $53, and credit-related OTTI of $690.$574.
The following table summarizestables summarize the AFS securities with unrealized losses as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. The unrealized losses are aggregated by major security type and the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position. TotalAt December 31, 2019, total unrealized losses in the following table will not agree to total gross unrealized losses in the table above. The unrealized losses in the following table as of December 31, 2019, also include non-credit-related OTTI losses recognized in AOCI. For OTTI analysis
March 31, 2020           
  
Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
  
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$104
 $
 $
 $
 $104
 $
MBS:           
MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac$833
 $24
 $
 $
 $833
 $24
Fannie Mae7,402
 216
 235
 12
 7,637
 228
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily8,235
 240
 235
 12
 8,470
 252
PLRMBS:           
Prime109
 1
 6
 1
 115
 2
Alt-A747
 37
 161
 27
 908
 64
Subtotal PLRMBS856
 38
 167
 28
 1,023
 66
Total MBS9,091
 278
 402
 40
 9,493
 318
Total$9,195
 $278
 $402
 $40
 $9,597
 $318

December 31, 2019     
 Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac$211
 $
 $
 $
 $211
 $
Fannie Mae2,433
 9
 623
 4
 3,056
 13
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily2,644
 9
 623
 4
 3,267
 13
PLRMBS:           
Prime4
 
 8
 
 12
 
Alt-A75
 
 193
 9
 268
 9
Subtotal PLRMBS79
 
 201
 9
 280
 9
Total$2,723
 $9
 $824
 $13
 $3,547
 $22

Redemption Terms. The amortized cost and estimated fair value of AFS securitiesnon-MBS investments by contractual maturity (based on contractual final principal payment) and for information on AFS securities in unrealized loss positions thatof MBS as of March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, are not considered to be other-than-temporarily impaired, see Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis.
March 31, 2019           
  
Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
  
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac$155
 $1
 $
 $
 $155
 $1
Fannie Mae2,086
 8
 
 
 2,086
 8
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily2,241
 9
 
 
 2,241
 9
PLRMBS:           
Prime
 
 9
 
 9
 
Alt-A, option ARM
 
 14
 
 14
 
Alt-A, other149
 2
 198
 14
 347
 16
Subtotal PLRMBS149
 2
 221
 14
 370
 16
Total$2,390
 $11
 $221
 $14
 $2,611
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December 31, 2018     
 Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac$382
 $2
 $
 $
 $382
 $2
Fannie Mae3,211
 30
 
 
 3,211
 30
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily3,593
 32
 
 
 3,593
 32
PLRMBS:           
Prime6
 
 8
 
 14
 
Alt-A, option ARM
 
 132
 4
 132
 4
Alt-A, other204
 3
 211
 15
 415
 18
Subtotal PLRMBS210
 3
 351
 19
 561
 22
Total$3,803
 $35
 $351
 $19
 $4,154
 $54

shown below. Expected maturities of MBS will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay the underlying obligations with or without call or prepayment fees.
See Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis for information on the transfers of securities between the AFS portfolio and the HTM portfolio.
March 31, 2020   
Year of Contractual Maturity
Amortized
Cost

 
Estimated
Fair Value

AFS securities other than MBS:   
Due in 1 year or less$3,290
 $3,293
Due after 1 year through 5 years2,057
 2,060
Subtotal5,347
 5,353
MBS11,080
 10,822
Total$16,427
 $16,175
December 31, 2019   
Year of Contractual Maturity
Amortized
Cost

 
Estimated
Fair Value

AFS securities other than MBS:   
Due in 1 year or less$2,309
 $2,312
Due after 1 year through 5 years2,972
 2,976
Subtotal5,281
 5,288
MBS9,925
 10,207
Total$15,206
 $15,495
Note 5 — Held-to-Maturity SecuritiesSecurities.
The Bank classifies the following securities as HTM because the Bank has the positive intent and ability to hold these securities to maturity:
 
March 31, 2019           
  
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized
in AOCI(1)

 
Carrying
Value(1)

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Gains

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

Housing finance agency bonds:           
California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) bonds$63
 $
 $63
 $
 $(2) $61
MBS:           
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae583
 
 583
 
 (3) 580
GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac1,413
 
 1,413
 6
 (13) 1,406
Fannie Mae2,420
 
 2,420
 18
 (10) 2,428
Subtotal GSEs – single-family3,833
 
 3,833
 24
 (23) 3,834
GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac3,661
 
 3,661
 
 (10) 3,651
Fannie Mae1,690
 
 1,690
 
 (1) 1,689
Subtotal GSEs – multifamily
5,351
 
 5,351
 
 (11) 5,340
Subtotal GSEs9,184
 
 9,184
 24
 (34) 9,174
PLRMBS:           
Prime360
 
 360
 2
 (4) 358
Alt-A, other196
 (3) 193
 7
 (3) 197
Subtotal PLRMBS556
 (3) 553
 9
 (7) 555
Total MBS10,323
 (3) 10,320
 33
 (44) 10,309
Total$10,386
 $(3) $10,383
 $33
 $(46) $10,370
March 31, 2020           
  
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized
in AOCI(2)

 
Net Carrying
Value

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Gains(3)

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Losses(3)

 
Estimated
Fair Value

MBS – Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae$441
 $
 $441
 $15
 $
 $456
MBS – GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac952
 
 952
 20
 
 972
Fannie Mae1,686
 
 1,686
 28
 (3) 1,711
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – single-family2,638
 
 2,638
 48
 (3) 2,683
MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac2,388
 
 2,388
 
 (25) 2,363
Fannie Mae1,039
 
 1,039
 
 (2) 1,037
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily3,427
 
 3,427
 
 (27) 3,400
Subtotal MBS – GSEs6,065
 
 6,065
 48
 (30) 6,083
PLRMBS:           
Prime229
 
 229
 
 (21) 208
Alt-A130
 (1) 129
 2
 (11) 120
Subtotal PLRMBS359
 (1) 358
 2
 (32) 328
Total$6,865
 $(1) $6,864
 $65
 $(62) $6,867

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December 31, 2018           
  
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized
in AOCI(1)

 
Carrying
Value(1)

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Gains

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

Housing finance agency bonds:           
California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) bonds$100
 $
 $100
 $
 $(3) $97
MBS:           
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae609
 
 609
 
 (6) 603
GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac1,506
 
 1,506
 6
 (21) 1,491
Fannie Mae2,598
 
 2,598
 17
 (16) 2,599
Subtotal GSEs – single-family4,104
 
 4,104
 23
 (37) 4,090
GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac3,944
 
 3,944
 
 (17) 3,927
Fannie Mae1,743
 
 1,743
 
 (1) 1,742
Subtotal GSEs – multifamily5,687
 
 5,687
 
 (18) 5,669
Subtotal GSEs9,791
 
 9,791
 23
 (55) 9,759
PLRMBS:           
Prime383
 
 383
 1
 (6) 378
Alt-A, other209
 (3) 206
 7
 (3) 210
Subtotal PLRMBS592
 (3) 589
 8
 (9) 588
Total MBS10,992
 (3) 10,989
 31
 (70) 10,950
Total$11,092

$(3)
$11,089

$31

$(73)
$11,047
December 31, 2019           
  
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
OTTI
Recognized
in AOCI(2)

 
Carrying
Value

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Gains(3)

 
Gross
Unrecognized
Holding
Losses(3)

 
Estimated
Fair Value

MBS – Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae$470
 $
 $470
 $5
 $
 $475
MBS – GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac1,063
 
 1,063
 8
 (1) 1,070
Fannie Mae1,844
 
 1,844
 20
 (1) 1,863
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – single-family2,907
 
 2,907
 28
 (2) 2,933
MBS – GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac2,625
 
 2,625
 
 (9) 2,616
Fannie Mae1,159
 
 1,159
 
 (2) 1,157
Subtotal MBS – GSEs – multifamily3,784
 
 3,784
 
 (11) 3,773
Subtotal MBS – GSEs6,691
 
 6,691
 28
 (13) 6,706
PLRMBS:           
Prime243
 
 243
 1
 (4) 240
Alt-A142
 (1) 141
 6
 (2) 145
Subtotal PLRMBS385
 (1) 384
 7
 (6) 385
Total$7,546

$(1)
$7,545

$40

$(19)
$7,566
(1)Amortized cost includes unpaid principal balance, unamortized premiums and discounts, and previousnet charge offs, and excludes accrued interest receivable of $10 and $12 at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, respectively.
(2)With the adoption of new accounting guidance for the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments on January 1, 2020, the OTTI recognized in earnings. Theapproach was replaced with an evaluation for an allowance for credit loss; however, OTTI remains for those securities that had credit impairment prior to the adoption date.
(3)Gross unrecognized gains/(losses) represent the difference between estimated fair value and net carrying value of HTM securities represents amortized cost after adjustment for non-credit-related OTTI recognized in AOCI.value.
Expected maturities of MBS classified as HTM will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay the underlying obligations with or without call or prepayment fees.
At March 31, 2020, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS classified as HTM included premiums of $7, discounts of $10, and credit-related OTTI of $6 for HTM securities with an OTTI recognized pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020. At December 31, 2019, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS classified as HTM included premiums of $12,$8, discounts of $17, and credit-related OTTI of $7. At December 31, 2018, the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS classified as HTM included premiums of $14, discounts of $19,$11, and credit-related OTTI of $7.
Allowance for Credit Losses on AFS and HTM Securities. The Bank adopted new accounting guidance for the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments on January 1, 2020. For additional information, see Note 2 – Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Guidance. For information on the prior methodology for evaluating credit losses, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K.
During the three months ended March 31, 2020, the Bank recognized a provision for credit losses of $39 associated with PLRMBS classified as AFS and no provision for credit losses associated with HTM investments. Under the previous accounting methodology of security impairment, the Bank recognized credit-related net OTTI loss of $1 during the three months ended March 31, 2019. To evaluate investment securities for credit loss at March 31, 2020, the Bank employed the following tables summarizemethodologies, based on the type of security.
AFS and HTM Securities (Excluding PLRMBS) – The Bank’s AFS and HTM securities with unrealized losses as ofare principally U.S. obligations and MBS issued by Ginnie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae that are backed by single-family or multifamily mortgage loans. The Bank only purchases securities considered investment quality. Excluding PLRMBS investments, at March 31, 2019,2020, approximately 100% of AFS securities and December 31, 2018. The unrealized losses are aggregated by major security type and the length of time that individual securities have been in a continuous unrealized loss position. Total unrealized losses in the following tables will not agree to the total gross unrecognized holding losses in the tables above. The unrealized losses in the following tables also include non-credit-related OTTI losses recognized in AOCI. For OTTI analysis of HTM securities, and for informationbased on HTM securities in unrealized loss positions that are not considered to be other-than-temporarily impaired, see Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis.

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March 31, 2019           
 Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

Housing finance agency bonds:           
CalHFA bonds$
 $
 $54
 $2
 $54
 $2
MBS:           
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae
 
 403
 3
 403
 3
GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac9
 
 905
 13
 914
 13
Fannie Mae779
 3
 721
 7
 1,500
 10
Subtotal GSEs – single-family788
 3
 1,626
 20
 2,414
 23
GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac2,945
 9
 239
 1
 3,184
 10
Fannie Mae325
 
 657
 1
 982
 1
Subtotal GSEs – multifamily3,270
 9
 896
 2
 4,166
 11
Subtotal GSEs4,058
 12
 2,522
 22
 6,580
 34
PLRMBS:           
Prime110
 
 124
 4
 234
 4
Alt-A, other75
 1
 111
 5
 186
 6
Subtotal PLRMBS185
 1
 235
 9
 420
 10
Total MBS4,243
 13
 3,160
 34
 7,403
 47
Total$4,243
 $13
 $3,214
 $36
 $7,457
 $49


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December 31, 2018           
 Less Than 12 Months 12 Months or More Total
 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unrealized
Losses

Housing finance agency bonds:           
CalHFA bonds$
 $
 $80
 $3
 $80
 $3
MBS:           
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae33
 
 529
 6
 562
 6
GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac79
 
 1,085
 21
 1,164
 21
Fannie Mae923
 3
 693
 13
 1,616
 16
Subtotal GSEs – single-family1,002
 3
 1,778
 34
 2,780
 37
GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac3,826
 16
 67
 1
 3,893
 17
Fannie Mae757
 1
 360
 
 1,117
 1
Subtotal GSEs – multifamily4,583
 17
 427
 1
 5,010
 18
Subtotal GSEs5,585
 20
 2,205
 35
 7,790
 55
PLRMBS:           
Prime153
 1
 128
 5
 281
 6
Alt-A, other84
 
 119
 6
 203
 6
Subtotal PLRMBS237
 1
 247
 11
 484
 12
Total MBS5,855
 21
 2,981
 52
 8,836
 73
Total$5,855
 $21
 $3,061
 $55
 $8,916
 $76

Redemption Terms. The amortized cost, carrying value, and estimated fair valuewere rated A, or above, by an NRSRO, based on the lowest long-term credit rating for each security. These may differ from any internal ratings of non-MBSthe securities by contractual maturity (based on contractual final principal payment) and of MBS as ofthe Bank, if applicable.
At March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, are shown below. Expected maturities2020, certain of MBS will differ from contractual maturities because borrowers may have the right to call or prepay the underlying obligations with or without call or prepayment fees.
March 31, 2019     
Year of Contractual Maturity
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
Carrying
Value(1)

 
Estimated
Fair Value

HTM securities other than MBS:     
Due after 5 years through 10 years$7
 $7
 $7
Due after 10 years56
 56
 54
Subtotal63
 63
 61
MBS10,323
 10,320
 10,309
Total$10,386
 $10,383
 $10,370
December 31, 2018     
Year of Contractual Maturity
Amortized
Cost(1)

 
Carrying
Value(1)

 
Estimated
Fair Value

HTM securities other than MBS:     
Due after 10 years$100
 $100
 $97
Subtotal100
 100
 97
MBS10,992
 10,989
 10,950
Total$11,092
 $11,089
 $11,047
(1)Amortized cost includes unpaid principal balance, unamortized premiums and discounts, and previous OTTI recognized in earnings. The carrying value of HTM securities represents amortized cost after adjustment for non-credit-related OTTI recognized in AOCI.

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See Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis for information on the transfers ofBank’s AFS securities between the AFS portfolio and the HTM portfolio.
Note 6 — Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis
On a quarterly basis, the Bank evaluates its individual AFS and HTM investment securitieswere in an unrealized loss position for OTTI. As part of this evaluation,position. These losses are considered temporary as the Bank considers whether itexpects to recover the entire amortized cost basis on these AFS investment securities and neither intends to sell each debt security and whetherthese securities nor considers it is more likely than not that it will be required to sell the debt securitythese securities before its anticipated recovery of theeach security's remaining amortized cost basis. If eitherFurther, the Bank has not experienced any payment defaults on the instruments. In addition, substantially all of these conditions is met,securities carry an implicit or explicit government guarantee. As a result, no allowance for credit losses was recorded on these AFS securities at March 31, 2020.
As of March 31, 2020, the Bank recognizeshad not established an OTTI chargeallowance for credit loss on any of its HTM securities because the securities: (i) were all highly rated or had short remaining terms to earnings equalmaturity, (ii) had not experienced, nor did the Bank expect, any payment default on the instruments, and (iii) in the case of GSE or other U.S. obligations, carry an implicit or explicit government guarantee such that the Bank consider the risk of nonpayment to be zero.
Private-Label Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities – The Bank also holds investments in PLRMBS. The Bank has not purchased any PLRMBS since the entire difference between the security’s amortized cost basis and its fair value at the statementfirst quarter of condition date. For securities in an unrealized loss position that do not meet either2008. However, many of these conditions,securities have subsequently experienced significant credit deterioration. As of March 31, 2020, approximately 7% of PLRMBS (AFS and HTM combined, based on amortized cost) were rated A, or above, by an NRSRO; and the remaining securities were either rated less than A, or were unrated. To determine whether an allowance for credit loss is necessary on these securities, the Bank considers whether it expectsuses cash flow analyses. For certain PLRMBS where underlying collateral data is not available, alternative procedures as determined by the Bank are used to recoverassess these securities for credit loss measurement.
At each quarter end, the entire amortized cost basis of the security by comparing its best estimate ofBank compares the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected fromon its PLRMBS, using the security witheffective interest rate, to the amortized cost basis of the security. If securities to determine whether a credit loss exists. The expected credit losses are measured using:
the Bank’s best estimate ofremaining payment terms for the present value ofsecurity;
prepayment speeds based on underlying loan-level borrower and loan characteristics;
expected default rates based on underlying loan-level borrower and loan characteristics;
expected housing price changes;
expected interest rate assumptions; and
loss severities on the collateral supporting each unique PLRMBS based on underlying loan-level borrower and loan characteristics.
The projected cash flows expected to be collected is less thanare based on a number of assumptions and expectations, and the amortized cost basis, the difference is considered the credit loss.
Private-Label Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (PLRMBS). A significant input to the Bank’sresults of these models can vary significantly with changes in assumptions and expectations. The scenario of cash flow analysis of its PLRMBS is the forecast of future housing price changes. The OTTI Governance Committee of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) developedflows determined reflects management’s expectations and includes a short-termbase case housing price forecast with projected changes ranging from a decrease of 6.0% to an increase of 14.0% over the 12-month period beginning January 1, 2019. For the vast majority of markets, the projected short-term housing price changes range from an increase of 2.0% to an increase of 6.0%. Thereafter, a unique path is projected for each geographic area based on an internally developed framework derived from historical data.near- and long-term horizons.
For all the PLRMBS in its AFS and HTM portfolios, the Bank does not intend to sell any security and it is not more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell any security before its anticipated recovery of the remaining amortized cost basis.
For securities determinedwith an OTTI recognized pursuant to be other-than-temporarily impairedthe impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, as of March 31, 20192020 (securities for which the Bank determined that it does not expect to recover the entire amortized cost basis), the following table presents a summary of the significant inputs used in measuring the amountfair value of credit loss recognized in earnings during the first quarterPLRMBS classified as Level 3 as of 2019,March 31, 2020, and the related current credit enhancement for the Bank.

March 31, 2019       
 Significant Inputs for Other-Than-Temporarily Impaired PLRMBS Current
 Prepayment Rates Default Rates Loss Severities Credit Enhancement
Year of Securitization
Weighted Average % (1)
 
Weighted Average % (1)
 
Weighted Average % (1)
 
Weighted Average % (1)
Alt-A, other       
200710.9 20.5 37.3 0.1
200513.4 18.9 40.3 
Total Alt-A, other11.3 20.2 37.8 0.1
Total11.3 20.2 37.8 0.1
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March 31, 2020     
 Significant Inputs for Other-Than-Temporarily Impaired PLRMBS
 Prepayment Rates Default Rates Loss Severities
Collateral Type at Origination
Weighted Average % (1)
 
Weighted Average % (1)
 
Weighted Average % (1)
Prime16.3 11.2 54.1
Alt-A15.0 16.1 40.3
Total15.0 16.0 40.6
(1)Weighted average percentage is based on unpaid principal balance.
Credit enhancement is defined as the percentage of subordinated tranches, excess spread, and over-collateralization, if any, in a security structure that will generally absorb losses before the Bank will experience a loss on the security. The calculated averages represent the dollar-weighted averages of all the PLRMBS investments in each category shown. The classification is based on the model used to run the estimated cash flows for the CUSIP, which may not necessarily be the same as the classification at the time of origination.

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The following table presents the credit-related OTTI, which is recognized in earnings, for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019.
Three Months Ended March 31,Three Months Ended March 31,
2019
 2018
2020
 2019
Balance, beginning of the period$1,077
 $1,129
$1,021
 $1,077
Additional charges on securities for which OTTI was previously recognized(1)
1
 1

 1
Accretion of yield adjustments resulting from improvement of expected cash flows that are recognized over the remaining life of the securities(2)
(15) (17)(17) (15)
Balance, end of the period$1,063
 $1,113
$1,004
 $1,063
(1)For the three months ended March 31, 2019, and 2018, “securities for which OTTI was previously recognized” represents all securities that were also other-than-temporarily impaired prior to January 1, 2019 and 2018, respectively.2020.
(2)The total net accretion/(amortization) associated with PLRMBS that were other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBSprior to January 1, 2020, (amount recognized in interest income) totaled $18$20 and $22$18 for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively.

In general, the Bank elects to transfer any PLRMBS that incurred a credit-related OTTI chargecredit loss during the applicable period from the Bank’s HTM portfolio to its AFS portfolio at their fair values. The Bank recognized an OTTIa credit loss on these HTM PLRMBS, which the Bank believes is evidence of a significant decline in the issuers’ creditworthiness. The decline in the issuers’ creditworthiness is the basis for the transfers to the AFS portfolio. These transfers allow the Bank the option to sell these securities prior to maturity in view of changes in interest rates, changes in prepayment risk, or other factors, while recognizing the Bank’s intent to hold these securities for an indefinite period of time.
The Bank does not intendtransferred PLRMBS from its HTM portfolio to sell its other-than-temporarily impaired securities and it is not more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell any security before its anticipated recovery of the remainingAFS portfolio with an amortized cost basis.
and fair value of $1 during the three months ended March 31, 2020. The Bank did not transfer any PLRMBS from its HTM portfolio to its AFS portfolio during the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018.2019.
The following tables presentFor the Bank’s AFSPLRMBS, the Bank experienced declines in fair value in March 2020 as a result of disruptions in the financial markets combined with illiquidity in the PLRMBS market and HTM PLRMBS that incurred OTTI losses anytime during the lifedecreased expectations of the performance of loan collateral underlying these securities, which caused these assets to be valued at discounts to their amortized cost. As a result, an allowance for credit losses of $39 was recorded on these securities as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, by loan collateral type:
March 31, 2019             
 Available-for-Sale Securities Held-to-Maturity Securities
 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Amortized
Cost

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Amortized
Cost

 
Carrying
Value

 
Estimated
Fair Value

Other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS backed by loans classified at origination as:             
Prime$308
 $254
 $276
 $
 $
 $
 $
Alt-A, option ARM757
 567
 696
 
 
 
 
Alt-A, other2,337
 1,933
 2,083
 48
 44
 41
 48
Total$3,402
 $2,754
 $3,055
 $48
 $44
 $41
 $48
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December 31, 2018             
 Available-for-Sale Securities Held-to-Maturity Securities
 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Amortized
Cost

 
Estimated
Fair Value

 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Amortized
Cost

 
Carrying
Value

 
Estimated
Fair Value

Other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS backed by loans classified at origination as:             
Prime$323
 $267
 $288
 $
 $
 $
 $
Alt-A, option ARM783
 583
 699
 
 
 
 
Alt-A, other2,442
 2,020
 2,170
 52
 47
 44
 51
Total$3,548
 $2,870
 $3,157
 $52
 $47
 $44
 $51

For the Bank’s PLRMBS that were not other-than-temporarily impaired as of March 31, 2019, the Bank has experienced net unrealized losses primarily because of illiquidity in the PLRMBS market and market expectations of the credit performance of loan collateral underlying these securities, which caused these assets to be valued at discounts to their amortized cost. The Bank does not intend to sell these securities, it is not more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell these securities before its anticipated recovery of the remaining amortized cost basis, and the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities. As a result, the Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, all of the gross unrealized losses on these PLRMBS are temporary. These securities were included in the securities that the Bank reviewed and analyzed for OTTI as discussed above, and the analyses performed indicated that these securities were not other-than-temporarily impaired.
All Other Available-for-Sale and Held-to-Maturity Investments. For the Bank’s investments in housing finance agency bonds, which were issued by CalHFA, the gross unrealized losses were mainly due to an illiquid market, credit concerns regarding the underlying mortgage collateral, and credit concerns regarding the monoline insurance providers, causing these investments to be valued at a discount to their acquisition cost. The Bank independently modeled cash flows for the underlying collateral, using assumptions for default rates and loss severity that a market participant would deem reasonable, and concluded that the available credit support within the CalHFA structure more than offset the projected underlying collateral losses. The Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, all of the gross unrealized losses on the bonds are temporary because the underlying collateral and credit enhancements were sufficient to protect the Bank from losses. As a result, the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities.
For its agency MBS, the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities because the Bank determined that the strength of the issuers’ guarantees through direct obligations or support from the U.S. government is sufficient to protect the Bank from losses. As a result, the Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, all of the gross unrealized losses on its agency MBS are temporary.
For more information related to the Bank’s accounting policies for OTTI, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 2018 Form 10-K.
Note 74 — Advances
The Bank offers a wide range of fixed and adjustable rate advance products with different maturities, interest rates, payment characteristics, and option features. Fixed rate advances generally have maturities ranging from one day to 30 years. Adjustable rate advances generally have maturities ranging from less than 30 days to 10 years, with the interest rates resetting periodically at a fixed spread to LIBOR, SOFR, or to anothera specified index.
Redemption Terms. The Bank had advances outstanding, excluding overdrawn demand deposit accounts, at interest rates ranging from 1.03%0.13% to 8.57% at March 31, 2019,2020, and 1.02%1.15% to 8.57% at December 31, 2018,2019, as summarized below.

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March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Redemption Term
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Amount
Outstanding(1)

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding(1)

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Within 1 year$39,251
 2.46% $42,285
 2.40%$37,311
 1.04% $32,351
 1.91%
After 1 year through 2 years16,087
 2.58
 13,662
 2.57
26,281
 1.65
 22,380
 2.15
After 2 years through 3 years8,577
 2.74
 11,238
 2.70
3,784
 2.12
 4,847
 2.08
After 3 years through 4 years2,346
 2.46
 2,409
 2.45
3,520
 2.67
 2,909
 2.97
After 4 years through 5 years2,903
 3.00
 2,815
 2.99
4,308
 1.43
 1,461
 2.32
After 5 years1,011
 3.24
 1,086
 3.23
1,684
 2.40
 1,140
 2.96
Total par value70,175
 2.56% 73,495
 2.51%76,888
 1.43% 65,088
 2.08%
Valuation adjustments for hedging activities71
   (32)  812
   203
  
Valuation adjustments under fair value option16
   (29)  172
   83
  
Total$70,262
   $73,434
  $77,872
   $65,374
  

(1)Carrying amounts exclude accrued interest receivable of $30 and $39 at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, respectively.
Many of the Bank’s advances are prepayable at the borrower’s option. However, when advances are prepaid, the borrower is generally charged a prepayment fee intended to make the Bank financially indifferent to the prepayment. In addition, for certain advances with full or partial prepayment symmetry, the Bank may charge the borrower a prepayment fee or pay the borrower a prepayment credit depending on certain circumstances, such as movements in interest rates, when the advance is prepaid. The Bank had advances with full prepayment symmetry outstanding totaling $4,338$23,430 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $3,405$14,059 at December 31, 2018.2019. The Bank had advances with partial prepayment symmetry outstanding totaling $4,287$3,387 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $4,410$3,513 at December 31, 2018.2019. Some advances may be repaid on pertinent call dates without prepayment fees (callable advances). The Bank had callable advances outstanding totaling $12,902$11,444 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $13,255$14,024 at December 31, 2018.2019.
The Bank had putable advances totaling $20$220 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $20 at December 31, 2018.2019. At the Bank’s discretion, the Bank may terminate these advances on predetermined exercise dates and offer replacement funding at prevailing market rates, subject to certain conditions. The Bank would typically exercise such termination rights when interest rates increase relative to contractual rates.
The following table summarizes advances at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, by the earlier of the year of redemption term or next call date for callable advances and by the earlier of the year of redemption term or next put date for putable advances.

 Earlier of Redemption Term or Next Call Date Earlier of Redemption Term or Next Put Date
 March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
 March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Within 1 year$44,453
 $46,740
 $39,261
 $42,295
After 1 year through 2 years14,137
 14,762
 16,097
 13,672
After 2 years through 3 years5,327
 5,688
 8,577
 11,238
After 3 years through 4 years2,346
 2,409
 2,346
 2,409
After 4 years through 5 years2,901
 2,812
 2,903
 2,815
After 5 years1,011
 1,084
 991
 1,066
Total par value$70,175
 $73,495
 $70,175
 $73,495
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Earlier of Redemption
Term or Next Call Date
 
Earlier of Redemption
Term or Next Put Date
 March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
 March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Within 1 year$43,383
 $39,075
 $37,531
 $32,371
After 1 year through 2 years20,231
 15,731
 26,281
 22,380
After 2 years through 3 years3,782
 4,800
 3,784
 4,847
After 3 years through 4 years3,520
 2,895
 3,520
 2,909
After 4 years through 5 years4,288
 1,447
 4,308
 1,461
After 5 years1,684
 1,140
 1,464
 1,120
Total par value$76,888
 $65,088
 $76,888
 $65,088

Credit and Concentration Risk. The following tables present the concentration in advances to the top five borrowers and their affiliates at March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019. The tables also present the interest income from these advances before the impact of interest rate exchange agreements associated with these advances for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019.
 March 31, 2020 Three Months Ended
March 31, 2020
Name of BorrowerAdvances
Outstanding

 Percentage of
Total
Advances
Outstanding

 
Interest
Income from
Advances
(1)

 Percentage of
Total Interest
Income from
Advances

First Republic Bank$16,250

21% $70

22%
MUFG Union Bank, National Association10,900

14
 62

19
Wells Fargo & Company 
   
 
Wells Fargo Financial National Bank West(2)
9,000

12
 35

11
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association(3)
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Subtotal Wells Fargo & Company9,036

12
 36

11
Bank of the West8,206

11
 21

7
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association(3)
3,053
 4
 25
 8
     Subtotal47,445

62
 214
 67
Others29,443

38
 105

33
Total par value$76,888

100% $319
 100%

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 March 31, 2019 Three Months Ended
March 31, 2019
Name of BorrowerAdvances
Outstanding

 Percentage of
Total
Advances
Outstanding

 
Interest
Income from
Advances
(1)

 Percentage of
Total Interest
Income from
Advances

MUFG Union Bank, National Association$14,550

21% $103

22%
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association(2)
8,358

12
 60

13
Wells Fargo & Company 
   
 
Wells Fargo Financial National Bank8,000

11
 47

10
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association(2)
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Subtotal Wells Fargo & Company8,045

11
 48

10
First Republic Bank8,000

11
 49

10
Bank of the West6,807
 10
 43
 9
     Subtotal45,760

65
 303
 64
Others24,415

35
 174

36
Total par value$70,175

100% $477
 100%
March 31, 2018 Three Months Ended
March 31, 2018
March 31, 2019 Three Months Ended
March 31, 2019
Name of Borrower
Advances
Outstanding

 
Percentage of
Total
Advances
Outstanding

 
Interest
Income from
Advances
(1)

 Percentage of
Total Interest
Income from
Advances

Advances
Outstanding

 
Percentage of
Total
Advances
Outstanding

 
Interest
Income from
Advances
(1)

 Percentage of
Total Interest
Income from
Advances

MUFG Union Bank, National Association$11,900
 18% $44
 12%$14,550
 21% $103
 22%
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association(2)(3)
9,362
 14
 50
 14
8,358
 12
 60
 13
Wells Fargo & Company

 

 

 

Wells Fargo Financial National Bank(2)
8,000
 11
 47
 10
Wells Fargo Bank, National Association(3)
45
 
 1
 
Subtotal Wells Fargo & Company8,045
 11
 48
 10
First Republic Bank8,500
 13
 35
 9
8,000
 11
 49
 10
Bank of the West7,159
 10
 29
 8
6,807
 10
 43
 9
Wells Fargo Financial National Bank4,000
 6
 17
 5
Subtotal40,921
 61
 175
 48
45,760
 65
 303
 64
Others25,942
 39
 191
 52
24,415
 35
 174
 36
Total par value$66,863
 100% $366
 100%$70,175
 100% $477
 100%

(1)Interest income amounts exclude the interest effect of interest rate exchange agreements with derivative counterparties; as a result, the total interest income amounts will not agree to the Statements of Income. The amount of interest income from advances can vary depending on the amount outstanding, terms to maturity, interest rates, and repricing characteristics.
(2)Effective April 15, 2019, Wells Fargo Financial National Bank was renamed Wells Fargo Financial National Bank West.
(3)Nonmember institution.
The Bank held a security interest in collateral from each of the top five advances borrowers and their affiliates sufficient to support their respective advances outstanding, and the Bank does not expect to incur any credit losses on these advances.
For information related to the Bank’s credit risk on advancesCredit Risk Exposure and allowance methodology for credit losses, see Note 9 – Allowance for Credit Losses.
Interest Rate PaymentSecurity Terms. Interest rate payment terms for advances at March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, are detailed below:

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March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Par value of advances:   
Fixed rate:   
Due within 1 year$20,113
 $20,437
Due after 1 year17,141
 19,727
Total fixed rate37,254
 40,164
Adjustable rate:   
Due within 1 year19,138
 21,848
Due after 1 year13,783
 11,483
Total adjustable rate32,921
 33,331
Total par value$70,175
 $73,495

The Bank did not have any advances with embedded features that met the requirements to separate the embedded feature from the host contract and designate the embedded feature as a stand-alone derivative at March 31, 2019, or December 31, 2018. The Bank has generally elected to account for certain advances with embedded features under the fair value option, and these advances are carried at fair value on the Statements of Condition. For more information, see Note 15 – Derivatives and Hedging Activities and Note 16 – Fair Value.
Note 8 — Mortgage Loans Held for Portfolio
The following table presents information as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, on mortgage loans, all of which are secured by one- to four-unit residential properties and single-unit second homes.
  
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Fixed rate medium-term mortgage loans$15
 $16
Fixed rate long-term mortgage loans3,046
 2,951
Subtotal3,061
 2,967
Unamortized premiums103
 104
Unamortized discounts(4) (5)
Mortgage loans held for portfolio3,160
 3,066
Less: Allowance for credit losses
 
Total mortgage loans held for portfolio, net$3,160
 $3,066

Medium-term loans have original contractual terms of 15 years or less, and long-term loans have contractual terms of more than 15 years.
For more information related to the Bank’s accounting policies for the Mortgage Partnership Finance® (MPF®) Program, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 2018 Form 10-K. For information related to the Bank’s credit risk on mortgage loans and allowance methodology for credit losses, see Note 9 – Allowance for Credit Losses.
Note 9 — Allowance for Credit Losses
The Bank has established an allowance methodology for each of its portfolio segments: advances, letters of credit, and other extensions of credit, collectively referred to as “credit products,” mortgage loans held for portfolio, term securities purchased under agreements to resell, and term Federal funds sold. For more information on these portfolio segments, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 10 – Allowance for Credit Losses” in the Bank’s 2018 Form 10-K.

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Credit Products.The Bank manages its credit exposure related to credit productsadvances through an integrated approach that generally provides for a credit limit to be established for each borrower, includes an ongoing review of each borrower’s financial condition, and is coupled with conservative collateral and lending policies to limit the risk of loss while taking into account borrowers’ needs for a reliable funding source.
In addition, the Bank lends to eligible borrowers in accordance with federal law and Finance Agency regulations. Specifically, the Bank is required to obtain sufficient collateral to fully secure credit products up to the member’s total credit limit. Borrowers may pledge the following eligible assets to secure advances:
one-to-four-family first lien residential mortgage loans;
securities issued, insures, or guaranteed by the U.S. government or any of its agencies, including without limitation MBS backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae;
cash or deposits in the Bank;
certain other real estate-related collateral, such as multifamily loans, commercial real estate loans, and second lien residential mortgage loans or home equity loans; and
small business, small farm, and small agribusiness loans that are fully secured by collateral (such as real estate, equipment and vehicles, accounts receivable, and inventory) from members that are community financial institutions.

At March 31, 2019,2020 and December 31, 2018,2019, none of the Bank’s credit products were past due or on nonaccrual status, or considered impaired.status. There were no troubled debt restructurings related to credit products during the three months ended March 31, 2019,2020, or during 2018.2019.
Based on the collateral pledged as security for advances, the Bank’s credit analyses of borrowers’ financial condition, repayment history on advances, and the Bank’s credit extension and collateral policies as of March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank expects to collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms. Therefore, no allowance for losses on credit productsadvances was deemed necessary by the Bank.Bank as of March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019.

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For more information on the credit risk exposure and security terms of advances, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 10 – Allowance for Credit Losses” in the Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K
Interest Rate Payment Terms. Interest rate payment terms for advances at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, are detailed below:
  
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Par value of advances:   
Fixed rate:   
Due within 1 year$21,846
 $15,327
Due after 1 year28,277
 21,337
Total fixed rate50,123
 36,664
Adjustable rate:   
Due within 1 year15,465
 17,024
Due after 1 year11,300
 11,400
Total adjustable rate26,765
 28,424
Total par value$76,888
 $65,088

The Bank did not have any advances with embedded features that met the requirements to separate the embedded feature from the host contract and designate the embedded feature as a stand-alone derivative at March 31, 2020, or December 31, 2019. The Bank has never experienced any credit lossesgenerally elected to account for certain advances with embedded features under the fair value option, and these advances are carried at fair value on its credit products.the Statements of Condition. For more information, see Note 11 – Derivatives and Hedging Activities and Note 12 – Fair Value.
Note 5 — Mortgage Loans Held for Portfolio.Portfolio
The following table presents information on delinquent mortgage loans as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019, on mortgage loans, all of which are secured by one- to four-unit residential properties and single-unit second homes.
  
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Fixed rate medium-term mortgage loans$29
 $27
Fixed rate long-term mortgage loans3,150
 3,199
Subtotal3,179
 3,226
Unamortized premiums66
 91
Unamortized discounts(3) (3)
Mortgage loans held for portfolio(1)
3,242
 3,314
Less: Allowance for credit losses(3) 
Total mortgage loans held for portfolio, net$3,239
 $3,314
 March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
 
Recorded
Investment(1)

 
Recorded
Investment(1)

30 – 59 days delinquent$11
 $15
60 – 89 days delinquent4
 2
90 days or more delinquent9
 9
Total past due24
 26
Total current loans3,155
 3,058
Total mortgage loans$3,179
 $3,084
In process of foreclosure, included above(2)
$3
 $3
Nonaccrual loans$9
 $9
Serious delinquencies as a percentage of total mortgage loans outstanding(3)
0.27% 0.31%

(1)Excludes accrued interest receivable of $19 at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019.
Medium-term loans have original contractual terms of 15 years or less, and long-term loans have contractual terms of more than 15 years.
Payment Status of Mortgage Loans. Payment status is the key credit quality indicator for conventional mortgage loans and allows the Bank to monitor the migration of past due loans. Past due loans are those where the borrower has failed to make timely payments of principal and/or interest in accordance with the terms of the loan. Other delinquency statistics include nonaccrual loans and loans in process of foreclosure. The following tables present the payment status for mortgage loans and other delinquency statistics for Bank’s mortgage loans at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019.

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March 31, 2020     
 Origination Year  
Payment Status<2016
 2016 to 2020
 
Amortized Cost(1)

30 – 59 days delinquent$12
 $3
 $15
60 – 89 days delinquent3
 2
 5
90 days or more delinquent3
 4
 7
Total past due18
 9
 27
Total current loans2,981
 234
 3,215
Total MPF$2,999
 $243
 $3,242
In process of foreclosure, included above(2)
    $1
Nonaccrual loans(3)
    $7
Serious delinquencies as a percentage of total mortgage loans outstanding(4)
    0.22%
December 31, 2019 
Payment Status
Recorded
Investment(1)

30 – 59 days delinquent$15
60 – 89 days delinquent2
90 days or more delinquent7
Total past due24
Total current loans3,310
Total MPF$3,334
In process of foreclosure, included above(2)
$
Nonaccrual loans$7
Serious delinquencies as a percentage of total mortgage loans outstanding(4)
0.22%
(1)With the adoption of new accounting guidance for the measurement of credit losses on financial instruments on January 1, 2020, payment status of mortgage loans is disclosed at amortized cost. The recorded investment at December 31, 2019, in a loan is the unpaid principal balance of the loan, adjusted for accrued interest, net deferred loan fees or costs, unamortized premiums or discounts, and direct write-downs. The recorded investment is not net of any valuation allowance. The amortized cost at March 31, 2020, in a loan is the unpaid principal balance of the loan, adjusted for net deferred loan fees or costs, unamortized premiums or discounts, and direct write-downs.
(2)Includes loans for which the servicer has reported a decision to foreclose or to pursue a similar alternative, such as deed-in-lieu. Loans in process of foreclosure are included in past due or current loans depending on their delinquency status.
(3)
At March 31, 2020, $6 of these mortgage loans on nonaccrual status did not have an associated allowance for credit losses.
(4)Represents loans that are 90 days or more past due or in the process of foreclosure as a percentage of the recorded investment of total mortgage loans outstanding.
Allowance for Credit Losses on MPF Loans. MPF loans are evaluated collectively when similar risk characteristics exist. MPF loans that do not share risk characteristics with other pools are evaluated for expected credit losses on an individual basis, factoring in the credit enhancement structure at the master commitment level. The amounts of charge-offs and recoveries of allowanceBank determines its allowances for credit losses on the mortgageMPF loans through analyses that include consideration of various loan portfolio were de minimis duringand collateral-related characteristics, such as past performance, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts of expected economic conditions. The Bank uses models that employ a variety of methods, such as projected cash flows, to estimate expected credit losses over the three months endedlife of the loans. These models rely on a number of inputs, such as current and forecasted property values and interest rates as well as historical borrower behavior experience. At March 31, 20192020, the Bank’s reasonable and 2018.
supportable forecast of housing prices expects, on average, for prices to appreciate 1% over a one-year forecast horizon before reverting to long-term housing price appreciation rates of 4% over a three-year forecast horizon based on historical averages. The recorded investment by impairment methodology for individually and collectively evaluated impaired loans is as follows:
 March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Recorded investment, end of the period:   
Individually evaluated for impairment$6
 $7
Collectively evaluated for impairment3,173
 3,077
Total recorded investment$3,179
 $3,084

Bank also incorporates associated credit enhancements, if any, to determine its estimate of expected credit losses.
The allowanceCertain MPF loans may be evaluated for credit losses by the Bank using the practical expedient for loans collectively evaluated for impairment totaled de minimis amounts as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018. The Bank had no allowance for credit losses for loans individually evaluated for impairment as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.collateral-dependent assets. A mortgage loan is considered collateral-dependent if repayment is expected to be provided by the

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The recorded investment and unpaid principal balancesale of impaired loans individually evaluated for impairment totaled $6 and $6, respectively, at March 31, 2019. The recorded investment and unpaid principal balance of impaired loans individually evaluated for impairment totaled $7 and $7, respectively, at December 31, 2018.
The Finance Agency’s acquired member asset (AMA) regulation permits the Bank to purchase and hold specified mortgage loans from its members.underlying property, that is, if it is considered likely that the borrower will default. The Bank and any participating financial institution share in the credit risk of the loans sold by that institution as specified in a master agreement. The Bank purchased loans under the MPF Program that were credit enhanced to an AMA investment-grade level at the time of purchase, where the Bank has a high degree of confidence that it will be paid principal and interest in all material respects, even under reasonably likely adverse changes to expected economic conditions.
Allowance for Credit Losses on MPF Loans The Bank evaluates the allowance for credit losses on MPF mortgage loans based on two components. The first component applies to impaired mortgage loans that are considered collateral-dependent. The estimated credit losses on impaired collateral-dependent loans may be separately determined because sufficient information exists to make a reasonable estimate of the inherent loss on those loans on an individual loan basis. The Bank estimates the fair value of this collateral by applying an appropriate loss severity rate or using real estate broker price opinionsthird-party estimates or automatedproperty valuation models based on property characteristics as well as recent market sales and current listings.models. The resulting incurredexpected credit loss if any,of a collateral-dependent mortgage loan is equal to the difference between the carrying valueamortized cost of the loan and the estimated fair value of the collateral, less estimated selling costs. The Bank evaluates the exposure onwill either reserve for these loans by considering the first layer of loss protection (the liquidation valueestimated losses or record a direct charge-off of the real property securingloan balance, if certain triggering criteria are met. Expected recoveries of prior charge-offs, if any, are included in the loan) andallowance for credit loss.
Upon adoption of new accounting guidance for the availability and collectabilitymeasurement of credit enhancements under the terms of each master commitment and records a provision for credit losses. For this component,losses on financial instruments applied prospectively on January 1, 2020, the Bank had norecorded an adjustment for the cumulative effect of the accounting change of $3. The amounts of charge-offs and recoveries of allowance for credit losses for MPF Original and MPF Plus loans as ofon the mortgage loan portfolio were de minimis during the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, and December 31, 2018.
The second component applies to loans that are not specifically identified as impaired and is based on the Bank’s estimate of probable credit losses on those loans as of the financial statement date. The credit risk analysis of conventional loans collectively evaluated for impairment considers loan pool-specific attribute data, such as delinquency statistics, past performance, current performance, loan portfolio characteristics, collateral valuations, industry data, and prevailing economic conditions. The analysis applies estimated loss severities and also considers the availability and collectability of credit enhancements from participating financial institutions or from mortgage insurers under the terms of each master commitment to determine the Bank’s best estimate of probable incurred losses. The analysis includes estimating projected cash flows that the Bank is likely to collect based on an assessment of all available information, including prepayment speeds, default rates, and loss severity for the mortgage loans based on underlying loan-level borrower and loan characteristics; expected housing price changes; and interest rate assumptions. In performing a detailed cash flow analysis, the Bank develops its best estimate of the cash flows expected to be collected using a third-party model to project prepayments, default rates, and loss severities based on borrower characteristics and the particular attributes of the mortgage loans,which resulted in conjunction with assumptions related primarily to future changes in housing prices and interest rates. The assumptions used as inputs to the model, including the forecast of future housing pricing changes, are consistent with assumptions used for the Bank’s evaluation of its PLRMBS for OTTI. For this component, the Bank established an allowance for credit losses foron MPF Originalloans of $3 and MPF Plus loans totalinga de minimis amounts as ofamount at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019, respectively.
Troubled Debt Restructurings See “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data Troubled debt restructuring (TDR) is considered to have occurred when a concession is granted to Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” and “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 10 – Allowance for Credit Losses” in the debtorBank’s 2019 Form 10-K for economic or legal reasons related toinformation on the debtor’s financial difficulties and that concession would not have been considered otherwise. An MPF loan considered a TDR is individually evaluatedprior methodology for impairment when determining its related allowance forevaluating credit losses. Credit loss is measured by factoring in expected cash flow shortfalls incurred as of the reporting datelosses, as well as the economic loss attributable to delaying the original contractual principala discussion on classes of financing receivables, placing them on nonaccrual status, and interest due dates, if applicable. The recorded investment of the Bank’s nonperforming MPFloans classified as TDRs totaled $2 as of March 31, 2019, and $2 as of December 31, 2018.

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charging them off when necessary. For more information related to the Bank’s accounting policies for collateral-dependent loans, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K. For more information related to the Bank’s credit risk of MPF loans, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 10 – Allowance for Credit Losses” in the Bank’s 2018 Form 10-K.
Term Federal Funds Sold. The Bank invests in Federal funds sold with counterparties that are considered by the Bank to be of investment quality, and these investments are evaluated for purposes of an allowance for credit losses only if the investment is not paid when due. All investments in Federal funds sold as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, were repaid or are expected to be repaid according to the contractual terms.
Note 106 — Deposits
The Bank maintains demand deposit accounts that are directly related to the extension of credit to members and offers short-term deposit programs to members and qualifying nonmembers. In addition, a member that services mortgage loans may deposit in the Bank funds collected in connection with the mortgage loans, pending disbursement of these funds to the owners of the mortgage loans. The Bank classifies these types of deposits as non-interest-bearing deposits.
Deposits as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, were as follows:
 March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Interest-bearing deposits – Demand and overnight$260
 $240
Non-interest-bearing deposits50
 22
Total$310
 $262

Interest Rate Payment Terms. Deposits classified as demand, overnight, and other pay interest based on a daily interest rate. Term deposits pay interest based on a fixed rate determined at the issuance of the deposit. Interest
Deposits and interest rate payment terms for deposits atas of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018, are detailed in the following table:2019, were as follows:
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Interest-bearing deposits – Adjustable rate$260
 2.10% $240
 2.10%
Interest-bearing deposits:       
Adjustable rate$574
 0.01% $427
 1.30%
Fixed rate2
 0.30
 
 
Total interest-bearing deposits576
   427
  
Non-interest-bearing deposits50
   22
  145
   110
  
Total$310
   $262
  $721
   $537
  

Note 117 — Consolidated Obligations
Consolidated obligations, consisting of consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes, are jointly issued by the FHLBanksFederal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks) through the Office of Finance, which serves as the FHLBanks’ agent. As provided by the FHLBankFederal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932, as amended (FHLBank Act) or by regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks, all FHLBanks have joint and several liability for all FHLBank consolidated

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obligations. For a discussion of the joint and several liability regulation, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 20 – Commitments and Contingencies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K. In connection with each issuance of consolidated obligations, each FHLBank specifies the type, term, and amount of debt it requests to have issued on its behalf. The Office of Finance tracks the amount of debt issued on behalf of each FHLBank. In addition, the Bank separately tracks and records as a liability its specific portion of the consolidated obligations issued and is the primary obligor for that portion of the consolidated obligations issued. The Finance Agency and the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury have oversight over the issuance of FHLBank debt through the Office of Finance.

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Redemption Terms. The following is a summary of the Bank’s participation in consolidated obligation bonds at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Contractual Maturity
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted
Average
Interest Rate

Within 1 year$56,578
 2.41% $56,968
 2.29%$62,453
 0.51% $53,549
 1.68%
After 1 year through 2 years10,876
 2.38
 7,741
 2.20
11,690
 0.46
 13,853
 1.67
After 2 years through 3 years2,006
 2.11
 2,842
 2.08
596
 1.84
 770
 1.93
After 3 years through 4 years1,954
 2.19
 2,094
 2.12
165
 2.14
 135
 2.74
After 4 years through 5 years505
 2.49
 600
 2.56
812
 1.82
 937
 2.08
After 5 years2,206
 3.08
 2,091
 3.03
2,191
 2.71
 2,126
 2.94
Total par value74,125
 2.41% 72,336
 2.29%77,907
 0.59% 71,370
 1.73%
Unamortized premiums2
   3
  3
   1
  
Unamortized discounts(10)   (10)  (9)   (10)  
Valuation adjustments for hedging activities(20)   (48)  32
   9
  
Fair value option valuation adjustments(3)   (5)  4
   2
  
Total$74,094
   $72,276
  $77,937
   $71,372
  

The Bank’s participation in consolidated obligation bonds outstanding includes callable bonds of $11,812$4,075 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $11,285$6,345 at December 31, 2018.2019. When a callable bond for which the Bank is the primary obligor is issued, the Bank may simultaneously enter into an interest rate swap (in which the Bank pays a variable rate and receives a fixed rate) with a call feature that mirrors the call option embedded in the bond (a sold callable swap). The Bank had notional amounts of interest rate exchange agreements hedging callable bonds of $8,087$245 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $7,660$2,085 at December 31, 2018.2019. The combined sold callable swaps and callable bonds enable the Bank to meet its funding needs at costs not otherwise directly attainable solely through the issuance of non-callable debt, while effectively converting the Bank’s net payment to an adjustable rate.
The Bank’s participation in consolidated obligation bonds at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, was as follows:
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Par value of consolidated obligation bonds:      
Non-callable$62,313
 $61,051
$73,832
 $65,025
Callable11,812
 11,285
4,075
 6,345
Total par value$74,125
 $72,336
$77,907
 $71,370

The following is a summary of the Bank’s participation in consolidated obligation bonds outstanding at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, by the earlier of the year of contractual maturity or next call date.
Earlier of Contractual
Maturity or Next Call Date
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Within 1 year$66,011
 $65,878
After 1 year through 2 years7,467
 5,626
After 2 years through 3 years436
 616
After 3 years through 4 years120
 85
After 4 years through 5 years40
 70
After 5 years51
 61
Total par value$74,125
 $72,336


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Earlier of Contractual
Maturity or Next Call Date
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Within 1 year$65,778
 $58,239
After 1 year through 2 years11,620
 12,768
After 2 years through 3 years381
 195
After 3 years through 4 years40
 70
After 4 years through 5 years37
 47
After 5 years51
 51
Total par value$77,907
 $71,370

Consolidated obligation discount notes are consolidated obligations issued to raise short-term funds. These notes are issued at less than their face value and redeemed at par value when they mature. The Bank’s participation in consolidated obligation discount notes, all of which are due within one year, was as follows:
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted Average
Interest Rate (1)

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted Average
Interest Rate (1)

Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted Average
Interest Rate (1)

 
Amount
Outstanding

 
Weighted Average
Interest Rate (1)

Par value$28,347
 2.41% $29,273
 2.32%$39,155
 0.84% $27,447
 1.61%
Unamortized discounts(66)   (91)  (53)   (71)  
Total$28,281
   $29,182
  $39,102
   $27,376
  

(1)Represents yield to maturity excluding concession fees.
Interest Rate Payment Terms. Interest rate payment terms for consolidated obligations at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, are detailed in the following table. For information on the general terms and types of consolidated obligations outstanding, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 12 – Consolidated Obligations” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10K.10-K.
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Par value of consolidated obligations:      
Bonds:      
Fixed rate$17,786
 $16,735
$7,623
 $10,993
Adjustable rate55,236
 53,668
70,099
 60,117
Step-up778
 1,558
60
 60
Step-down225
 275
25
 100
Range bonds100
 100
100
 100
Total bonds, par value74,125
 72,336
77,907
 71,370
Discount notes, par value28,347
 29,273
39,155
 27,447
Total consolidated obligations, par value$102,472
 $101,609
$117,062
 $98,817

The Bank did not have any bonds with embedded features that met the requirements to separate the embedded feature from the host contract and designate the embedded feature as a stand-alone derivative at March 31, 2019,2020, or December 31, 2018.2019. The Bank has generally elected to account for certain bonds with embedded features under the fair value option, and these bonds are carried at fair value on the Statements of Condition. For more information, see Note 1511 – Derivatives and Hedging Activities and Note 1612 – Fair Value.

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Note 128 — Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss)
The following table summarizes the changes in AOCI for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018:2019:
Net Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on AFS Securities
 Net Non-Credit-Related OTTI Loss on AFS Securities
 Net Non-Credit-Related OTTI Loss on HTM Securities
 Pension and Postretirement Benefits
 Total
AOCI

Balance, December 31, 2017$
 $337
 $(6) $(13) $318
Other comprehensive income/(loss) before reclassifications:         
Net change in pension and postretirement benefits      1
 1
Non-credit-related OTTI loss  (2) 
   (2)
Net change in fair value
 17
     17
Accretion of non-credit-related OTTI loss    1
   1
Net current period other comprehensive income/(loss)
 15
 1
 1
 17
Balance, March 31, 2018$
 $352
 $(5) $(12) $335
         Net Unrealized Gain/(Loss) on AFS Securities
 Net Non-Credit-Related OTTI Loss on AFS Securities
 Net Non-Credit-Related OTTI Loss on HTM Securities
 Pension and Postretirement Benefits
 Total
AOCI

Balance, December 31, 2018$(32) $287
 $(3) $(17) $235
$(32) $287
 $(3) $(17) $235
Other comprehensive income/(loss) before reclassifications:                  
Net change in fair value38
 14
     52
38
 14
     52
Net current period other comprehensive income/(loss)38
 14
 
 
 52
38
 14
 
 
 52
Balance, March 31, 2019$6
 $301
 $(3) $(17) $287
$6
 $301
 $(3) $(17) $287
         
Balance, December 31, 2019$21
 $268
 $(1) $(14) $274
Other comprehensive income/(loss) before reclassifications:         
Net change in fair value(502) 
     (502)
Net current period other comprehensive income/(loss)(502) 
 
 
 (502)
Adoption of ASU 2016-13, as amended(1)
268
 (268)     
Balance, March 31, 2020$(213) $
 $(1) $(14) $(228)

(1)With the adoption of changes to accounting standards on measurement of credit losses for financial instruments on January 1, 2020, OTTI assessment was replaced with an evaluation for an allowance for credit loss (see Note 1 – Basis of Presentation and Note 2 – Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Guidance for further information).
Note 139 — Capital
Capital Requirements. Under the Housing Act, the Director of the Finance Agency is responsible for setting the risk-based capital standards for the FHLBanks. The FHLBank Act and regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks require that the Bank’s minimum capital stock requirement for shareholders must be sufficient to enable the Bank to meet its regulatory requirements for total capital, leverage capital, and risk-based capital. The Bank must maintain: (i) total regulatory capital in an amount equal to at least 4% of its total assets, (ii) leverage capital in an amount equal to at least 5% of its total assets, and (iii) permanent capital in an amount that is greater than or equal to its risk-based capital requirement.
Beginning in February 2020, the Finance Agency issued guidance that augmented existing statutory and regulatory capital requirements to require each FHLBank to maintain a ratio of at least two percent of capital stock to total assets in order to help preserve the cooperative structure incentives that encourage members to remain fully engaged in the oversight of their investment in the FHLBank. The Finance Agency will consider the proportion of capital stock to assets, measured on a daily average basis at monthend, when assessing each FHLBank’s capital management practices. As of March 31, 2020, the Bank was in compliance with this capital requirement.
Because the Bank issues only Class B stock, regulatory capital and permanent capital for the Bank are both composed of retained earnings and Class B stock, including mandatorily redeemable capital stock (which is classified as a liability for financial reporting purposes). Regulatory capital and permanent capital do not include AOCI. Leverage capital is defined as the sum of permanent capital, weighted by a 1.5 multiplier, plus non-permanent capital.
The risk-based capital requirement is equal to the sum of the Bank’s credit risk, market risk, and operations risk capital requirements, all of which are calculated in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Finance Agency. The Finance Agency may require an FHLBank to maintain a greater amount of permanent capital than is required by the risk-based capital requirement as defined.

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As of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, the Bank was in compliance with these capital rules and requirements as shown in the following table.
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Required
 Actual
 Required
 Actual
Required
 Actual
 Required
 Actual
Risk-based capital$1,919
 $6,586
 $1,899
 $6,522
$1,411
 $6,718
 $1,519
 $6,605
Total regulatory capital$4,423
 $6,586
 $4,373
 $6,522
$4,995
 $6,718
 $4,274
 $6,605
Total regulatory capital ratio4.00% 5.96% 4.00% 5.97%4.00% 5.38% 4.00% 6.18%
Leverage capital$5,529
 $9,879
 $5,466
 $9,783
$6,244
 $10,078
 $5,342
 $9,908
Leverage ratio5.00% 8.93% 5.00% 8.95%5.00% 8.07% 5.00% 9.27%

Mandatorily Redeemable Capital Stock. The Bank had mandatorily redeemable capital stock totaling $227$83 outstanding to three3 institutions at March 31, 2019,2020, and $138 outstanding to 3 institutions at December 31, 2018.2019. The change in mandatorily redeemable capital stock for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, was de minimis.as follows:
 March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
Balance at the beginning of the period$138
 $227
Reclassified from/(to) capital during the period3
 
Repurchase of excess mandatorily redeemable capital stock(58) 
Balance at the end of the period$83
 $227
Cash dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock were recorded as interest expense in the amount of $4$2 and $6$4 for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively.
The Bank’s mandatorily redeemable capital stock is discussed more fully in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 15 – Capital” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
The following table presents mandatorily redeemable capital stock amounts by contractual redemption period at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Contractual Redemption PeriodMarch 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
After 1 year through 2 years$224
 $224
Within 1 year$81
 $135
Past contractual redemption date because of remaining activity(1)
3
 3
2
 3
Total$227
 $227
$83
 $138

(1)Represents mandatorily redeemable capital stock that is past the end of the contractual redemption period because of outstanding activity.
Excess Stock Repurchase, Retained Earnings, and Dividend Framework. By Finance Agency regulation, dividends may be paid only out of current net earnings or previously retained earnings. As required by the Finance Agency, the Bank’s Excess Stock Repurchase, Retained Earnings, and Dividend Framework (Framework) summarizes the Bank’s capital management principles and objectives, as well as its policies and practices, with respect to retained earnings, dividend payments, and the repurchase of excess capital stock. The Bank may be restricted from paying dividends if the Bank is not in compliance with any of its minimum capital requirements or if payment would cause the Bank to fail to meet any of its minimum capital requirements. In addition, the Bank may not pay dividends if any principal or interest due on any consolidated obligations has not been paid in full or is not expected to be paid in full, or, under certain circumstances, if the Bank fails to satisfy certain liquidity requirements under applicable Finance Agency regulations.

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The Bank’s Board of Directors reviews the Framework at least annually and may amend the Framework from time to time. The Framework includes a dividend philosophy to endeavor to pay a quarterly dividend at an annualized rate between 5% and 7%. The decision to declare any dividend and the dividend rate are at the discretion of the Bank’s Board of Directors, which may choose to follow the dividend philosophy as guidance in the dividend declaration. The Board may also revise or eliminate the dividend policy in the future. The Bank’s historical dividend rates and the dividend philosophy are not indicative of future dividend declarations.
The Bank’s Risk Management Policy limits the payment of dividends if the ratio of the Bank’s estimated market value of total capital to par value of capital stock falls below certain levels. If this ratio at the end of any quarter is less than 100% but greater than or equal to 70%, any dividend would be limited to an annualized rate no greater than the daily average of the Federal funds effective rate for the applicable quarter (subject to certain conditions),

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and if this ratio is less than 70%, the Bank would be restricted from paying a dividend. The ratio of the Bank’s estimated market value of total capital to par value of capital stock was 221%198% as of March 31, 2019.2020.
In addition, the Bank monitors the condition of its PLRMBS portfolio, the ratio of the Bank’s estimated market value of total capital to par value of capital stock, its overall financial performance and retained earnings, developments in the mortgage and credit markets, and other relevant information as the basis for determining the payment of dividends and the repurchase of excess capital stock in future quarters.
Retained Earnings – The Bank’s Framework assesses the level and adequacy of retained earnings and establishes amounts to be retained in restricted retained earnings, which are not made available in the current dividend period, and maintains an amount of total retained earnings at least equal to its required retained earnings as described in the Framework. As determined using the Bank’s methodology, the required level of total retained earnings iswas $2,500 from January 2018 through July 2019. In July 2019, the methodology was further revised and resulted in a required level of retained earnings of $2,400. In January 2020, the methodology was further revised and resulted in a required level of retained earnings of $2,500. The Bank satisfies its retained earnings requirement with both restricted retained earnings (i.e., amounts related to the Joint Capital Enhancement (JCE) Agreement) and unrestricted retained earnings. The Bank’s retained earnings requirement may be changed at any time. The Board of Directors periodically reviews the retained earnings methodology and analysis to determine whether any adjustments are appropriate.
The Bank’s restricted retained earnings totaled $668 and $647$713 at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018, respectively.2019. The Bank’s unrestricted retained earnings totaled $2,732$2,691 and $2,699$2,754 at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively.
For more information on restricted retained earnings and the Bank’s Framework, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 15 – Capital” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
Dividend Payments – Finance Agency rules state that FHLBanks may declare and pay dividends only from previously retained earnings or current net earnings, and may not declare or pay dividends based on projected or anticipated earnings. There is no requirement that the Board of Directors declare and pay any dividend. A decision by the Board of Directors to declare or not declare a dividend is a discretionary matter and is subject to the requirements and restrictions of the FHLBank Act and applicable requirements under the regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks.
In addition, Finance Agency rules do not permit the Bank to pay dividends in the form of capital stock if its excess capital stock exceeds 1% of its total assets. Excess capital stock is defined as the aggregate of the capital stock held by each shareholder in excess of its minimum capital stock requirement, as established by the Bank’s capital plan. AsExcess capital stock totaled $175, or 0.14% of total assets as of March 31, 2019, the Bank’s excess2020. Excess capital stock totaled $229,$197, or 0.21%0.18% of total assets.assets as of December 31, 2019.
In the first quarter of 2020, the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $54, including $52 in dividends on capital stock and $2 in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. In the first quarter of 2019,

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the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $54, including $50 in dividends on capital stock and $4 in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. In the first quarter of 2018, the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $59, including $53 in dividends on capital stock and $6 in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock.
For the periods referenced above, the Bank paid dividends in cash. Dividends on capital stock are recognized as dividends on the Statements of Capital Accounts, and dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock are recognized as interest expense on the Statements of Income.
On April 25, 2019,27, 2020, the Bank’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the capital stock outstanding during the first quarter of 20192020 at an annualized rate of 7.00%5.00%, totaling $56,$39, including $52$37 in dividends on capital stock and $4$2 in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. The Bank recorded the dividend on April 25, 2019.27, 2020. The Bank expects to pay the dividend on May 14, 20192020. Dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock will be recognized as interest expense in the second quarter of 2019.2020.
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requirements. The Bank must give the shareholder 15 days’ written notice; however, the shareholder may waive this notice period. The Bank may also repurchase all of a member’s excess capital stock at a member’s request, at the Bank’s discretion, subject to certain statutory and regulatory requirements. A shareholder’s excess capital stock is defined as any capital stock holdings in excess of the shareholder’s minimum capital stock requirement, as established by the Bank’s capital plan. The Bank’s practice is to repurchase the surplus capital stock of all members and the excess capital stock of all former members on a daily schedule. Surplus capital stock is defined as any stock holdings in excess of 115% of a member’s minimum stock requirement. The Bank calculates the amount of stock to be repurchased each business day based on the shareholder’s capital stock outstanding after all stock transactions are completed for the day, ensuring that each member and former member would continue to meet its minimum capital stock requirement after the repurchase. The Bank may change this practice at any time. The Bank repurchased $344$431 and $428$344 in excess capital stock during the first quarter of 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively.
The Bank is required to redeem any mandatorily redeemable capital stock that is in excess of a former member’s minimum stock requirement on or after the expiration of the five-year redemption date. During the first quarter of 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank redeemed a de minimis amount in mandatorily redeemable capital stock, for which the five-year redemption period had expired, at its $100 par value. The stock was redeemed on the scheduled redemption dates or, for stock that was not excess stock on its scheduled redemption date because of outstanding activity with the Bank, on the first available repurchase date after the stock was no longer required to support outstanding activity with the Bank.
On April 9, 2018, the Bank’s Board of Directors revised the Framework to change the Bank’s practice of repurchasing the surplus capital stock of all members and the excess capital stock of all former members from a quarterly schedule to a daily schedule. Surplus capital stock is defined as any stock holdings in excess of 115% of a member’s minimum stock requirement. Effective April 24, 2018, the Bank began calculating the amount of stock to be repurchased each business day based on the shareholder’s capital stock outstanding after all stock transactions are completed for the day, ensuring that each member and former member would continue to meet its minimum capital stock requirement after the repurchase. The Bank may change this practice at any time. All repurchases of capital stock are at the Bank’s discretion, subject to certain statutory and regulatory requirements and to the Bank’s Risk Management Policy, Capital Plan, and the Framework.
Excess capital stock totaled $229 and $166 as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018, respectively.
Concentration. The following table presents the concentration in capital stock held by institutions whose capital stock ownership represented 10% or more of the Bank’s outstanding capital stock, including mandatorily redeemable capital stock, as of March 31, 2019,2020, or December 31, 2018.2019.
March 31, 2019
December 31, 2018March 31, 2020
December 31, 2019
Name of InstitutionCapital Stock
Outstanding


Percentage
of Total
Capital Stock
Outstanding


Capital Stock
Outstanding


Percentage
of Total
Capital Stock
Outstanding

Capital Stock
Outstanding


Percentage
of Total
Capital Stock
Outstanding


Capital Stock
Outstanding


Percentage
of Total
Capital Stock
Outstanding

First Republic Bank$494

15%
$368

12%
MUFG Union Bank, National Association$452

14%
$456

14%294

9

394

12
Subtotal788

24

762

24
Others2,734

86

2,720

86
2,526

76

2,376

76
Total$3,186

100%
$3,176

100%$3,314

100%
$3,138

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Note 1410 — Segment Information
The Bank uses an analysis of financial results based on the financial components and adjusted net interest income of two operating segments, the advances-related business and the mortgage-related business, as well as other financial information, to review and assess financial performance and determine financial management strategies related to the operations of these two2 business segments. For purposes of segment reporting, adjusted net interest income includes income and expense associated with net settlements from economic hedges that are recorded in “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities” in other income, excludes interest income and expense associated with ineffectiveness from fair value hedges that are recorded in the same line as the earnings effect of the hedged item, and excludes interest expense that is recorded in “Mandatorily redeemable capital stock.” Other key financial information, such as any credit-related OTTI losses on the Bank’s PLRMBS, other expenses, and assessments, is not included in the segment reporting analysis, but is incorporated into the Bank’s overall assessment of financial performance.

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For more information on these operating segments, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 17 – Segment Information” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
The following table presents the Bank’s adjusted net interest income by operating segment and reconciles total adjusted net interest income to income before the AHP assessment for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019.
Advances-
Related
Business

 
Mortgage-
Related
Business(1)

 
Adjusted
Net
Interest
Income

 
Amortization
of Basis
Adjustments(2)

 

Income/(Expense)
on Economic
Hedges(3)

 
Interest
Expense on
Mandatorily
Redeemable
Capital
Stock(4)

 
Net
Interest
Income After Mortgage Loan Loss Provision

 
Other
Income/
(Loss)

 
Other
Expense

 
Income
Before AHP
Assessment

Advances-
Related
Business

 
Mortgage-
Related
Business(1)

 
Adjusted
Net
Interest
Income

 
Amortization of Basis
Adjustments and (Gain)/Loss on Fair Value Hedges(2)

 

Income/(Expense)
on Economic
Hedges(3)

 
Interest
Expense on
Mandatorily
Redeemable
Capital
Stock(4)

 
Net
Interest
Income After Provision for/(Reversal of) Credit Losses

 
Other
Income/
(Loss)

 
Other
Expense

 
Income/(Loss)
Before AHP
Assessment

Three months ended:
March 31, 2020$63
 $12
 $75
 $71
 $(8) $2
 $10
 $18
 $36
 $(8)
March 31, 2019$86
 $68
 $154
 $11
 $(5) $4
 $144
 $15
 $43
 $116
86
 68
 154
 11
 (5) 4
 144
 15
 43
 116
March 31, 201878
 75
 153
 (1) 
 6
 148
 (8) 49
 91
(1)
The mortgage-related business includes total accretion or amortization associated with other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS, which are recognized in interest income, and totaled $18$20 and $22$18 for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, and 2018, respectively. The mortgage-related business includes a provision for credit losses of $39for the three months ended March 31, 2020. The mortgage-related business does not include credit-related OTTI losses of $1 and $1 for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.2019.
(2)
Represents amortization of amounts deferred for adjusted net interest income purposes only.only and changes in fair value of the derivative hedging instrument and the hedged item attributable to the hedged risk for designated fair value hedges recorded in net interest income.
(3)
The Bank includes income and expense associated with net settlements from economic hedges in adjusted net interest income in its analysis of financial performance for its two2 operating segments. For financial reporting purposes, the Bank does not include these amounts in net interest income in the Statements of Income, but instead records them in other income in “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities.”
(4)The Bank excludes interest expense on mandatorily redeemable capital stock from adjusted net interest income in its analysis of financial performance for its two2 operating segments.
The following table presents total assets by operating segment at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
  
Advances-
Related Business

 
Mortgage-
Related Business

 
Total
Assets

March 31, 2019$88,592
 $21,985
 $110,577
December 31, 201888,272
 21,054
 109,326
  
Advances-
Related Business

 
Mortgage-
Related Business

 
Total
Assets

March 31, 2020$103,877
 $20,993
 $124,870
December 31, 201985,709
 21,133
 106,842

Note 1511 — Derivatives and Hedging Activities
General. The Bank may enter into interest rate swaps (including callable, putable, and basis swaps); and cap and floor agreements (collectively, interest rate exchange agreements or derivatives). Most of the Bank’s interest rate exchange agreements are executed in conjunction with the origination of advances or the issuance of consolidated

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obligations to create variable rate structures. The interest rate exchange agreements are generally executed at the same time the advances and consolidated obligations are transacted and generally have the same maturity dates as the related hedged instrument. The Bank transacts most of its derivatives with large banks and major broker-dealers. Some of these banks and broker-dealers or their affiliates buy, sell, and distribute consolidated obligations. Derivatives may be either uncleared or cleared. In an uncleared derivative transaction, the Bank’s counterparty is the executing bank or broker-dealer. In a cleared derivative transaction, the Bank may execute the transaction either directly with the executing bank or broker-dealer or on a swap execution facility, but in either case, the Bank’s counterparty is a derivatives clearing organization or clearinghouse once the derivative transaction has been accepted for clearing. The Bank is not a derivatives dealer and does not trade derivatives for short-term profit.
Additional uses of interest rate exchange agreements include: (i) offsetting embedded features in assets and liabilities, (ii) hedging anticipated issuance of debt, (iii) matching against consolidated obligation discount notes or bonds to create the equivalent of callable or non-callable fixed rate debt, (iv) modifying the repricing frequency of assets and liabilities, (v) matching against certain advances and consolidated obligations for which the Bank elected the fair value option, and (vi) exactly offsetting other derivatives cleared at a derivatives clearing organization. The

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Bank’s use of interest rate exchange agreements results in one of the following classifications: (i) a fair value hedge of an underlying financial instrument or (ii) an economic hedge of assets, liabilities, or other derivatives.
The Bank primarily uses the following derivativeinterest rate exchange agreement instruments:
Interest Rate Swaps – An interest rate swap is an agreement between two entities to exchange cash flows in the future. The agreement sets the dates on which the cash flows will be paid and the manner in which the cash flows will be calculated. One of the simplest forms of an interest rate swap involves the promise by one party to pay cash flows equivalent to the interest on a notional principal amount at a predetermined fixed rate for a given period of time. In return for this promise, the party receives cash flows equivalent to the interest on the same notional principal amount at a variable rate for the same period of time. The variable rate received or paid by the Bank in most interest rate exchange agreements is either indexed to LIBORbased on a daily repricing index, such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) or to the overnight index swapeffective Fed Funds rate.
Interest Rate Caps and Floors – In a cap agreement, additional cash flow is generated if the price or interest rate of an underlying variable rate rises above a certain threshold (or cap) price. In a floor agreement, additional cash flow is generated if the price or interest rate of an underlying variable rate falls below a certain threshold (or floor) price. Caps and floors may be used in conjunction with assets or liabilities. In general, caps and floors are designed as protection against the interest rate on a variable rate asset or liability rising above or falling below a certain level.
Hedging Activities. The Bank documents at inception all relationships between derivatives designated as hedging instruments and hedged items, its risk management objectives and strategies for undertaking various hedge transactions, and its method of assessing hedge effectiveness. Derivatives designated as fair value hedges may be transacted to hedge: (i) assets and liabilities on the StatementStatements of Condition, (ii) firm commitments, or (iii) forecasted transactions. The Bank also formally assesses (both at hedge inception and on an ongoing basis) whether the hedging derivatives have been effective in offsetting changes in the fair value of hedged items attributable to the hedged risk and whether those derivatives may be expected to remain effective hedges in future periods. The Bank typically uses regression analyses or other statistical analyses to assess the effectiveness of its hedges. When it is determined that a derivative has not been or is not expected to be effective as a hedge, the Bank discontinues hedge accounting prospectively.
The Bank may have the following types of hedged items:
Investments The Bank may invest in U.S. Treasury and agency obligations as well as agency MBS, and the taxable portion of highly rated state or local housing finance agency obligations.MBS. In the past, the Bank has also invested in PLRMBS rated AAA at the time of acquisition. The interest rate and prepayment risk associated with these investment securities is managed through a combination of debt issuance and derivatives. The Bank may manage prepayment risk and interest rate risk by funding investment securities with consolidated

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obligations that have call features or by hedging the prepayment risk with a combination of consolidated obligations and callable swaps. The Bank may execute callable swaps in conjunction with the issuance of certain liabilities to create funding that is economically equivalent to fixed rate callable debt. Although these derivatives are economic hedges against prepayment risk and are designated to individual liabilities, they do not receive either fair value or cash flow hedge accounting treatment. Investment securities may be classified as trading, AFS, or HTM.
The Bank may also manage the risk arising from changing market prices or cash flows of investment securities classified as trading or AFS by entering into interest rate exchange agreements that offset the changes in fair value or cash flows of the securities. Hedge relationships that involve trading securities are designated as economic hedges, while hedge relationships that involve AFS securities are designated as fair value hedges. For trading securities that have been designated as an economic hedge, the market value changes of both the trading securities and the associated interest rate exchange agreements are included in other income in the Statements of Income. Beginning January 1, 2019, the Bank adopted new hedge accounting guidance, which, among other things, affects the presentation of gains and losses on derivatives and hedging activities for qualifying hedges, including fair value hedges of AFS securities. For AFS securities that have been hedged and qualify as a fair value hedge, the Bank

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records the portion of the change in the fair value of the investment related to the risk being hedged in interest income together with the related change in the fair value of the derivative, and records the remainder of the change in the fair value of the investment in AOCI as “Net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities.”
Prior to January 1, 2019, for AFS securities that were hedged and qualified as a fair value hedge, the Bank recorded the portion of the change in the fair value of the investment related to the risk being hedged in non-interest income as “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities” together with the related change in the fair value of the derivative, and recorded the remainder of the change in the fair value of the investment in AOCI as “Net unrealized gain/(loss) on AFS securities.”
Advances The Bank offers a wide range of advances structures to meet members’ funding needs. These advances may have maturities up to 30 years with fixed or adjustable rates and may include early termination features or options. The Bank may use derivatives to adjust the repricing and options characteristics of advances to more closely match the characteristics of the Bank’s funding liabilities. In general, whenever a member executes a fixed rate advance, fixed rate advance with embedded options, or a variable rate advance with embedded options, the Bank will simultaneously execute an interest rate exchange agreement with terms that offset the terms and any embedded options in the advance. The combination of the advance and the interest rate exchange agreement effectively creates a variable rate asset. Fixed rate advances without options that are offset with an interest rate exchange agreement are generally treated as fair value hedges. Advances with embedded options are recorded using the fair value option and are economically hedged using interest rate exchange agreements.
Mortgage Loans The Bank’s investment portfolio includes fixed rate mortgage loans. The prepayment options embedded in mortgage loans can result in extensions or contractions in the expected repayment of these investments, depending on changes in estimated prepayment speeds. The Bank manages the interest rate risk and prepayment risk associated with fixed rate mortgage loans through a combination of debt issuance and derivatives. The Bank uses both callable and non-callable debt to achieve cash flow patterns and market value sensitivities for liabilities similar to those expected on the mortgage loans. Net income could be reduced if the Bank replaces prepaid mortgage loans with lower-yielding assets and the Bank’s higher funding costs are not reduced accordingly.
The Bank executes callable swaps in conjunction with the issuance of certain consolidated obligations to create funding that is economically equivalent to fixed rate callable bonds. Although these derivatives are economic hedges against the prepayment risk of specific loan pools and are referenced to individual liabilities, they do not receive either fair value or cash flow hedge accounting treatment.
Consolidated Obligations – Consolidated obligation bonds may be structured to meet the Bank’s or the investors’ needs. Common structures include fixed rate bonds with or without call options and adjustable rate bonds with or without embedded options. In general, when bonds are issued, the Bank simultaneously executes an interest rate exchange agreement with terms that offset the terms and embedded options, if any, of the consolidated obligation bond. This combination of the consolidated obligation bond and the interest rate exchange agreement effectively creates an adjustable rate bond. The cost of this funding combination is generally lower than the cost that would be available through the issuance of an adjustable rate bond alone. These transactions generally receive fair value hedge accounting treatment.
When the Bank issues consolidated obligation discount notes, it may also simultaneously enter into an interest rate exchange agreement to convert the fixed rate discount note to an adjustable rate discount note. This type of hedge is treated as an economic hedge.

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In addition, when certain consolidated obligation bonds for which the Bank has elected the fair value option are issued, the Bank simultaneously executes an interest rate exchange agreement with terms that economically offset the terms of the consolidated obligation bond. However, this type of hedge is treated as an economic hedge because these combinations do not meet the requirements for fair value hedge accounting treatment.

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Offsetting Derivatives The Bank enters into derivatives to offset the economic effect of other derivatives that are no longer designated to advances, investments, or consolidated obligations. Offsetting derivatives do not receive hedge accounting treatment and are separately marked to market through earnings. The net result of the accounting for these derivatives does not significantly affect the operating results of the Bank.
The notional amount of an interest rate exchange agreement serves as a factor in determining periodic interest payments or cash flows received and paid. However, the notional amount of derivatives represents neither the actual amounts exchanged nor the overall exposure of the Bank to credit risk and market risk. The risks of derivatives can be measured meaningfully on a portfolio basis by taking into account the counterparties, the types of derivatives, the items being hedged, and any offsets between the derivatives and the items being hedged.
For more information related to the Bank’s accounting policies for derivatives, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
The following table summarizes the notional amount and fair value of derivative instruments, including the effect of netting adjustments and cash collateral as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. For purposes of this disclosure, the derivative values include the fair value of derivatives and related accrued interest.
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Notional
Amount of
Derivatives

 
Derivative
Assets

 
Derivative
Liabilities

 
Notional
Amount of
Derivatives

 
Derivative
Assets

 
Derivative
Liabilities

Notional
Amount of
Derivatives

 
Derivative
Assets

 
Derivative
Liabilities

 
Notional
Amount of
Derivatives

 
Derivative
Assets

 
Derivative
Liabilities

Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:                      
Interest rate swaps$38,542
 $26
 $165
 $40,504
 $20
 $93
$46,837
 $24
 $1,011
 $39,622
 $31
 $370
Total38,542
 26
 165
 40,504
 20
 93
46,837
 24
 1,011
 39,622
 31
 370
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:                      
Interest rate swaps56,451
 39
 35
 59,398
 65
 54
70,963
 18
 44
 60,424
 13
 14
Interest rate caps and floors1,063
 
 1
 1,563
 1
 
980
 
 
 980
 
 
Mortgage delivery commitments33
 
 
 12
 
 
87
 3
 
 46
 
 
Total57,547
 39
 36
 60,973
 66
 54
72,030
 21
 44
 61,450
 13
 14
Total derivatives before netting and collateral adjustments$96,089
 65
 201
 $101,477
 86
 147
$118,867
 45
 1,055
 $101,072
 44
 384
Netting adjustments and cash collateral(1)
  181
 (200)   99
 (137)  17
 (1,055)   (11) (384)
Total derivative assets and total derivative liabilities  $246
 $1
   $185
 $10
  $62
 $
   $33
 $
(1)
Amounts represent the application of the netting requirements that allow the Bank to settle positive and negative positions, and also cash collateral and related accrued interest held or placed with the same clearing agents and/or counterparty. Cash collateral posted and related accrued interest was $383$1,082 and $257$378 at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively. Cash collateral received and related accrued interest was $2$9 and $22$5 at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively.
Beginning on January 1, 2019, changes in fair value of the derivative hedging instrument and the hedged item attributable to the hedged risk for designated fair value hedges are recorded in net interest income in the same line as the earnings effect of the hedged item. Prior to January 1, 2019, for fair value hedges, any hedge ineffectiveness (which represented the amount by which the change in the fair value of the derivative differed from the change in the fair value of the hedged item) was recorded in other income as “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities.”
The following table presents,tables present, by type of hedged item, the gains and losses on fair value hedging relationships and the impact of those derivatives on the Bank’s Statements of Income for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2019.

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2018. Beginning on January 1, 2019, the gains and losses on derivatives include unrealized changes in fair value as well as net interest settlements.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019(1)
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020
Interest Income/ExpenseInterest Income/(Expense)
Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
Total interest income/(expense) presented in the Statements of Income$279
 $51
 $(276)
Gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships          
Derivatives(2)
$(82) $(128) $19
Hedged Items103
 117
 (28)
Derivatives(1)
$(651) $(968) $26
Hedged items610
 893
 (23)
Net gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships$21
 $(11) $(9)$(41) $(75) $3
 Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
 Interest Income/(Expense)
 Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
Total income/(expense) presented in the Statements of Income$498
 $79
 $(455)
Gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships     
Derivatives(1)
$(82) $(128) $19
Hedged items103
 117
 (28)
Net gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships$21
 $(11) $(9)
 
Three Months Ended March 31, 2018(1)
 Interest Income/Expense Other Income
 Advances
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
 Advances
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
Gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships       
Derivatives(2)
$3
 $1
 $70
 $(44)
Hedged Items    (67) 43
Net gain/(loss) on fair value hedging relationships$3
 $1
 $3
 $(1)

(1)Upon adoption of new hedge accounting guidance applied prospectively on January 1, 2019, interest amounts reported for 2019 for advances, investment securities, and consolidated obligation bonds include the realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on hedged items and derivatives in qualifying hedge relationships. Other income amounts reported for 2018 include the realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on hedged items and derivatives in qualifying hedge relationships.
(2)
Includes net interest settlements.settlements.
The following table presents the cumulative basis adjustments on hedged items designated as fair value hedges and the related amortized cost of the hedged items as of March 31, 2019.2020.
March 31, 2019March 31, 2020
Hedged Item Type
Amortized Cost of Hedged Asset/(Liability)(1)

 Basis Adjustments for Active Hedging Relationships Included in Amortized Cost
Amortized Cost of Hedged Asset/(Liability)(1)

 Basis Adjustments for Active Hedging Relationships Included in Amortized Cost
 Basis Adjustments for Discontinued Hedging Relationships Included in Amortized Cost
 Cumulative Amount of Fair Value Hedging Basis Adjustments
Advances$27,496
 $71
$32,880
 $804
 $8
 $812
AFS securities5,375
 208
14,195
 1,275
 49
 1,324
Consolidated obligation bonds(6,235) 20
(2,707) (32) 
 (32)

(1)Includes only the portion of amortized cost representing the hedged items in fair value hedging relationships.
The following table presents the components of net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities as presented in the Statements of Income for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018. For fair value hedging relationships, the portion of net gain/(loss) representing hedge ineffectiveness is recorded in other income for periods prior to January 1, 2019.

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 Three Months Ended
 March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
 Gain/(Loss)
 Gain/(Loss)
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:   
Economic hedges:   
Interest rate swaps$(143) $(23)
Interest rate caps and floors
 (1)
Net settlements(8) (5)
Mortgage delivery commitments4
 1
Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities$(147) $(28)
 Three Months Ended
 March 31, 2019
 March 31, 2018
 Gain/(Loss)
 Gain/(Loss)
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:   
Interest rate swaps  $2
Derivatives not designated as hedging instruments:   
Economic hedges:   
Interest rate swaps$(23) 24
Interest rate caps and floors(1) 2
Net settlements(5) 
Mortgage delivery commitments1
 4
Total net gain/(loss) related to derivatives not designated as hedging instruments(28) 30
Price alignment amount(1)

 (1)
Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities$(28) $31
(1)
This amount is for derivatives for which variation margin on cleared derivatives is characterized as a daily settled contract.
Credit Risk – The Bank is subject to credit risk as a result offrom potential nonperformance by counterparties to the interest rate exchange agreements. All of the Bank’s agreements governing uncleared derivative transactions contain master netting provisions to help mitigate the credit risk exposure to each counterparty. The Bank manages counterparty credit risk through credit analyses and collateral requirements and by following the requirements of the Bank’s risk management policies, credit guidelines, and Finance Agency and other regulations. The Bank also requires credit support agreements on all uncleared derivatives.
For cleared derivatives, the clearinghouse is the Bank’s counterparty. The requirement that the Bank post initial and variation margin through a clearing agent, to the clearinghouse, exposes the Bank to institutional credit risk in the event that the clearing agent or the clearinghouse fails to meet its obligations. The use of cleared derivatives, however, mitigates the Bank’s overall credit risk exposure because a central counterparty is substituted for individual counterparties. Variation margin and initial margin are posted for changes in the value and risk profile of cleared derivatives. The Bank has analyzed the enforceability of offsetting rights applicable to its cleared derivative transactions and determined that the exercise of those offsetting rights by a non-defaulting party under these transactions should be upheld under applicable bankruptcy law and Commodity Futures Trading Commission rules in the event of a clearinghouse or clearing agent insolvency and under applicable clearinghouse rules upon a non-insolvency-based event of default of the clearinghouse or clearing agent. Based on this analysis, the Bank presents a net derivative receivable or payable for all of its transactions through a particular clearing agent with a particular clearinghouse.
Based on the Bank’s credit analyses and the collateral requirements, the Bank does not expect to incur any credit losses on its derivative transactions.
The Bank’s agreements for uncleared derivative transactions contain provisions that link the Bank’s credit rating from Moody’s Investors Service and S&P Global Ratings to various rights and obligations. Certain of these derivative agreements provide that, if the Bank’s long-term debt rating falls below a specified rating (ranging from A3/A- to Baa3/BBB-), the Bank’s counterparty would have the right, but not the obligation, to terminate all of its outstanding derivative transactions with the Bank; the Bank’s agreements with its clearing agents for cleared derivative transactions have similar provisions with respect to the debt rating of FHLBank System consolidated bonds. If this occurs, the Bank may choose to enter into replacement hedges, either by transferring the existing transactions to another counterparty or entering into new replacement transactions, based on prevailing market rates. The aggregate fair value of all uncleared derivative instruments with credit risk-related contingent features that were in a net derivative liability position (before cash collateral and related accrued interest) at March 31, 2019,2020, was $163,$1,036, for which the Bank had posted cash collateral of $176$1,070 in the ordinary course of business.

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The Bank may present derivative instruments, related cash collateral received or pledged, and associated accrued interest by clearing agent or by counterparty when the netting requirements have been met.
The following table presentstables present separately the fair value of derivative assets and derivative liabilities that have met the netting requirements, including the related collateral received from or pledged to counterparties as of March 31, 2019,

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2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020
Derivative Instruments Meeting Netting Requirements   Derivative Instruments Meeting Netting Requirements  Derivative Instruments Meeting Netting Requirements        
Amount Recognized
 Gross Amount of Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral
 Total Derivative Assets and Total Derivative Liabilities
 Amount Recognized
 Gross Amount of Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral
 Total Derivative Assets and Total Derivative Liabilities
Amount Recognized
 Gross Amount of Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral
 
Derivative Instruments Not Meeting Netting Requirements(1)

 Total Derivative Assets and Total Derivative Liabilities
 
Noncash Collateral Not Offset That
 Can Be Sold or Repledged

 Net Amount
Derivative Assets                      
Uncleared$37
 $(22) $15
 $83
 $(82) $1
$15
 $20
 $3
 $38
 $
 $38
Cleared28
 203
 231
 3
 181
 184
27
 (3) 
 24
 (643) 667
Total    $246
     $185
      $62
   $705
Derivative Liabilities                      
Uncleared$197
 $(196) $1
 $129
 $(119) $10
$1,041
 $(1,041) $
 $
 $
 $
Cleared4
 (4) 
 18
 (18) 
14
 (14) 
 
 
 
Total    $1
     $10
      $
   $
 December 31, 2019
 Derivative Instruments Meeting Netting Requirements      
 Amount Recognized
 Gross Amount of Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral
 Total Derivative Assets and Total Derivative Liabilities
 
Noncash Collateral Not Offset That
 Can Be Sold or Repledged

 Net Amount
Derivative Assets         
Uncleared$34
 $(16) $18
 $
 $18
Cleared10
 5
 15
 (381) 396
Total    $33
   $414
Derivative Liabilities         
Uncleared$382
 $(382) $
 $
 $
Cleared2
 (2) 
 
 
Total    $
   $

(1)Represents derivatives that are not subject to an enforceable netting agreement (e.g., mortgage delivery commitments).
Note 1612 — Fair Value
The following fair value amounts have been determined by the Bank using available market information and the Bank’s best judgment of appropriate valuation methods. These estimates are based on pertinent information available to the Bank at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. Although the Bank uses its best judgment in estimating the fair value of these financial instruments, there are inherent limitations in any estimation technique or valuation methodology. For example, because an active secondary market does not exist for a portion of the Bank’s financial instruments, in certain cases fair values cannot be precisely quantified or verified and may change as economic and market factors and evaluation of those factors change. The Bank continues to refine its valuation methodologies as markets and products develop and the pricing for certain products becomes more or less transparent. While the Bank believes that its valuation methodologies are appropriate and consistent with those of other market participants, the use of different methodologies or assumptions to determine the fair value of certain financial instruments could result in a materially different estimate of fair value as of the reporting date. U.S. GAAP defines fair value as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (i.e., an exit price). Therefore, the fair values are not necessarily indicative of the amounts that would be realized in current market transactions, although they do reflect the Bank’s judgment as to how a market participant would estimate the fair values. The fair value summary

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table does not represent an estimate of the overall market value of the Bank as a going concern, which would take into account future business opportunities and the net profitability of total assets and liabilities.
The following tables present the net carrying value or carrying value, as applicable, the estimated fair value, and the fair value hierarchy level of the Bank’s financial instruments at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. The Bank records trading securities, AFS securities, derivative assets, derivative liabilities, certain advances, certain consolidated obligations, and certain other assets at fair value on a recurring basis, and on occasion certain mortgage loans held for portfolio and certain other assets at fair value on a nonrecurring basis. The Bank records all other financial assets and liabilities at amortized cost. Refer to the following tables for further details about the financial assets and liabilities held at fair value on either a recurring or non-recurring basis.
 March 31, 2020
  
Net Carrying
Value

 Estimated Fair Value
 Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral(1)

Assets           
Cash and due from banks$328
 $328

$328

$
 $
 $
Interest-bearing deposits3,577
 3,577
 3,577
 
 
 
Securities purchased under agreements to resell2,000
 2,000
 
 2,000
 
 
Federal funds sold10,081
 10,081
 
 10,081
 
 
Trading securities4,319
 4,319
 
 4,319
 
 
AFS securities16,175
 16,175
 
 13,949
 2,226
 
HTM securities6,864
 6,867
 
 6,539
 328
 
Advances77,872
 77,951
 
 77,951
 
 
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net of allowance for credit losses on mortgage loans3,239
 3,320
 
 3,320
 
 
Accrued interest receivable139
 139
 
 139
 
 
Derivative assets, net(1)
62
 62
 
 45
 
 17
Other assets(2)
16
 16
 16
 
 
 
Liabilities           
Deposits721
 721
 
 721
 
 
Consolidated obligations:           
Bonds77,937
 77,992
 
 77,992
 
 
Discount notes39,102
 39,146
 
 39,146
 
 
Total consolidated obligations117,039
 117,138
 
 117,138
 
 
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock83
 83

83


 
 
Accrued interest payable121

121



121
 
 
Derivative liabilities, net(1)

 
 
 1,055
 
 (1,055)
Other           
Standby letters of credit33
 33



33
 
 

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 March 31, 2019
  
Carrying
Value

 Estimated Fair Value
 Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral(1)

Assets           
Cash and due from banks$19
 $19

$19

$
 $
 $
Interest-bearing deposits1,580
 1,580
 1,580
 
 
 
Securities purchased under agreements to resell8,250
 8,250
 
 8,250
 
 
Federal funds sold7,235
 7,236
 
 7,236
 
 
Trading securities610
 610
 
 610
 
 
AFS securities8,436
 8,436
 
 5,381
 3,055
 
HTM securities10,383
 10,370
 
 9,754
 616
 
Advances70,262
 70,314
 
 70,314
 
 
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net of allowance for credit losses on mortgage loans3,160
 3,122
 
 3,122
 
 
Accrued interest receivable199
 199
 
 199
 
 
Derivative assets, net(1)
246
 246
 
 65
 
 181
Other assets(2)
17
 17
 17
 
 
 
Liabilities           
Deposits310
 310
 
 310
 
 
Consolidated obligations:           
Bonds74,094
 74,004
 
 74,004
 
 
Discount notes28,281
 28,281
 
 28,281
 
 
Total consolidated obligations102,375
 102,285
 
 102,285
 
 
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock227
 227

227


 
 
Accrued interest payable185

185



185
 
 
Derivative liabilities, net(1)
1
 1
 
 201
 
 (200)
Other           
Standby letters of credit29
 29



29
 
 

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Carrying
Value

 Estimated Fair Value
 Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral(1)

Carrying
Value

 Estimated Fair Value
 Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
Netting Adjustments and Cash Collateral(1)

Assets                      
Cash and due from banks$13
 $13
 $13
 $
 $
 $
$118
 $118
 $118
 $
 $
 $
Interest-bearing deposits2,555
 2,555
 2,555
 
 
 
2,269
 2,269
 2,269
 
 
 
Securities purchased under agreements to resell7,300
 7,299
 
 7,299
 
 
7,000
 7,000
 
 7,000
 
 
Federal funds sold3,845
 3,846
 
 3,846
 
 
3,562
 3,562
 
 3,562
 
 
Trading securities661
 661
 
 661
 
 
1,766
 1,766
 
 1,766
 
 
AFS securities6,931
 6,931
 
 3,774
 3,157
 
15,495
 15,495
 
 12,898
 2,597
 
HTM securities11,089
 11,047
 
 10,362
 685
 
7,545
 7,566
 
 7,181
 385
 
Advances73,434
 73,462
 
 73,462
 
 
65,374
 65,492
 
 65,492
 
 
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net of allowance for credit losses on mortgage loans3,066
 2,975
 
 2,975
 
 
3,314
 3,332
 
 3,332
 
 
Accrued interest receivable133
 133
 
 133
 
 
139
 139
 
 139
 
 
Derivative assets, net(1)
185
 185
 
 86
 
 99
33
 33
 
 44
 
 (11)
Other assets(2)
16
 16
 16
 
 
 
19
 19
 19
 
 
 
Liabilities  

          

        
Deposits262
 262
 
 262
 
 
537
 537
 
 537
 
 
Consolidated obligations:  

          

        
Bonds72,276
 72,079
 
 72,079
 
 
71,372
 71,386
 
 71,386
 
 
Discount notes29,182
 29,178
 
 29,178
 
 
27,376
 27,378
 
 27,378
 
 
Total consolidated obligations101,458
 101,257
 
 101,257
 
 
98,748
 98,764
 
 98,764
 
 
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock227
 227
 227
 
 
 
138
 138
 138
 
 
 
Borrowings from other FHLBanks250
 250
 
 250
 
 
Accrued interest payable155
 155
 
 155
 
 
164
 164
 
 164
 
 
Derivative liabilities, net(1)
10
 10
 
 147
 
 (137)
 
 


 384
 
 (384)
Other  

          

        
Standby letters of credit27
 27
 
 27
 
 
32
 32
 
 32
 
 

(1)Amounts represent the application of the netting requirements that allow the Bank to settle positive and negative positions, and also cash collateral and related accrued interest held or placed with the same clearing agents and/or counterparty.
(2)Represents publicly traded mutual funds held in a grantor trust.
Fair Value Hierarchy. The fair value hierarchy is used to prioritize the fair value methodologies and valuation techniques as well as the inputs to the valuation techniques used to measure fair value for assets and liabilities carried at fair value on the Statements of Condition. The inputs are evaluated and an overall level for the fair value measurement is determined. This overall level is an indication of market observability of the fair value measurement for the asset or liability. The fair value hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). An entity must disclose the level within the fair value hierarchy in which the measurements are classified for all financial assets and liabilities measured on a recurring or non-recurring basis.
The application of the fair value hierarchy to the Bank’s financial assets and financial liabilities that are carried at fair value either on a recurring or non-recurring basis is as follows:
Level 1 – Quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in an active market that the reporting entity can access on the measurement date. An active market for the asset or liability is a market in which the transactions for the asset or liability occur with sufficient frequency and volume to provide pricing information on an ongoing basis.

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be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability. Level 2 inputs include the following: (1) quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets; (2) quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in markets that are not active; (3) inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability (e.g., interest rates and yield curves that are observable at commonly quoted intervals, and implied volatilities); and (4) inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.
Level 3 – Unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.
A financial instrument’s categorization within the valuation hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement.
The following assets and liabilities, including those for which the Bank has elected the fair value option, are carried at fair value on the Statements of Condition as of March 31, 2019:2020:
Trading securities
AFS securities
Certain advances
Derivative assets and liabilities
Certain consolidated obligation bonds
Certain other assets
For instruments carried at fair value, the Bank reviews the fair value hierarchy classifications on a quarterly basis. Changes in the observability of the valuation inputs may result in a reclassification of certain assets or liabilities. Such reclassifications are reported as transfers in or out as of the beginning of the quarter in which the changes occur. For the periods presented, the Bank did not have any reclassifications for transfers in or out of level 3 of the fair value hierarchy levels.hierarchy.
Summary of Valuation Methodologies and Primary Inputs.Inputs
The valuation methodologies and primary inputs used to develop the measurement of fair value for assets and liabilities that are measured at fair value on a recurring or nonrecurring basis in the Statements of Condition are listed below.
Investment Securities MBS – To value its MBS, the Bank obtains prices from multiple designated third-party pricing vendors when available. The pricing vendors use various proprietary models to price these securities. The inputs to those models are derived from various sources including, but not limited to: benchmark yields, reported trades, dealer estimates, issuer spreads, prices on benchmark securities, bids, offers, and other market-related data. Since many securities do not trade on a daily basis, the pricing vendors use available information as applicable, such as benchmark yield curves, benchmarking of like securities, sector groupings, and matrix pricing, to determine the prices for individual securities. Each pricing vendor has an established challenge process in place for all security valuations, which facilitates resolution of price discrepancies identified by the Bank.
At least annually, the Bank conducts reviews of the multiple pricing vendors to update and confirm its understanding of the vendors’ pricing processes, methodologies, and control procedures.
The Bank’s valuation technique for estimating the fair values of its MBS first requires the establishment of a median vendor price for each security. If three prices are received, the middle price is the median price; if two prices are received, the average of the two prices is the median price; and if one price is received, it is the median price (and also the default fair value) subject to additional validation. All vendor prices that are within a specified tolerance threshold of the median price are included in the cluster of vendor prices that are averaged to establish a default fair value. All vendor prices that are outside the threshold (outliers) are subject to further analysis including, but not limited to, comparison to prices provided by an additional third-party valuation service, prices for similar securities and/or dealer estimates, or use of internal model prices, which are deemed to be reflective of all relevant

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securities and/or dealer estimates, or use of internal model prices, which are deemed to be reflective of all relevant facts and circumstances that a market participant would consider. Such analysis is also applied in those limited instances where no third-party vendor price or only one third-party vendor price is available in order to arrive at an estimated fair value. If an outlier (or some other price identified in the analysis) is determined to be a better estimate of fair value, then the outlier (or the other price, as appropriate) is used as the fair value rather than the default fair value. If, instead, the analysis confirms that an outlier is (or outliers are) not representative of fair value and the default fair value is the best estimate, then the default fair value is used as the fair value.
If all vendor prices received for a security are outside the tolerance threshold level of the median price, then there is no default fair value, and the fair value is determined by an evaluation of all outlier prices (or the other prices, as appropriate) as described above.
As of March 31, 2019,2020, multiple vendor prices were received for most of the Bank’s MBS, and the fair value estimates for most of those securities were determined in accordance with the Bank’s valuation technique based on these vendor prices. Based on the Bank’s reviews of the pricing methods employed by the third-party pricing vendors and the relative lack of dispersion among the vendor prices (or, in those instances in which there were outliers, the Bank’s additional analyses), the Bank believes that its fair value estimates are reasonable and that the fair value measurements are classified appropriately in the fair value hierarchy. Based on limited market liquidity for PLRMBS, the fair value measurements for these securities were classified as Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy.
Investment Securities FFCB BondsNon-MBS The Bank estimatesTo determine the estimated fair values of these securitiesnon-MBS investments, the Bank uses a market approach using prices from third-party pricing vendors, generally consistent with the methodology described abovemethodologies for Investment Securities – MBS.MBS. The Bank believes that its methodologies result in fair values that are reasonable and similar in all material respects based on the nature of the financial instruments being measured.
Advances Recorded Under the Fair Value Option Because quoted prices are not available for advances, the fair values are measured using model-based valuation techniques (such as calculating the present value of future cash flows and reducing the amount for accrued interest receivable).
The Bank’s primary inputs for measuring the fair value of advances recorded under the fair value option are market-based consolidated obligation yield curve (CO Curve) inputs obtained from the Office of Finance. The CO Curve is then adjusted to reflect the rates on replacement advances with similar terms and collateral. These spread adjustments are not market-observable and are evaluated for significance in the overall fair value measurement and the fair value hierarchy level of the advance. The Bank obtains market-observable inputs for complex advances recorded under the fair value option. These inputs may include volatility assumptions, which are market-based expectations of future interest rate volatility implied from current market prices for similar options (swaption volatility and volatility skew). The discount rates used in these calculations are the replacement advance rates for advances with similar terms. Pursuant to the Finance Agency’s advances regulation, advances with an original term to maturity or repricing period greater than six months generally require a prepayment fee sufficient to make the Bank financially indifferent to the borrower’s decision to prepay the advances. The Bank determined that no adjustment is required to the fair value measurement of advances for prepayment fees. In addition, the Bank did not adjust its fair value measurement of advances recorded under the fair value option for creditworthiness primarily because advances were fully collateralized.
Other Assets – The estimated fair value of grantor trust assets is based on quoted market prices.
Derivative Assets and Liabilities In general, derivative instruments transacted and held by the Bank for risk management activities are traded in over-the-counter markets where quoted market prices are not readily available. These derivatives are interest rate-related. For these derivatives, the Bank measures fair value using internally developed discounted cash flow models that use market-observable inputs, such as swap rates and volatility assumptions, which are market-based expectations of future interest rate volatility implied from current market prices for similar options (swaption volatility and volatility skew), adjusted for counterparty credit risk, as necessary.

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prices for similar options (swaption volatility and volatility skew), adjusted for counterparty credit risk, as necessary.
The Bank is subject to credit risk because of the risk of potential nonperformance by its derivative counterparties. To mitigate this risk, the Bank executes uncleared derivative transactions only with highly rated derivative dealers and major banks (derivative dealer counterparties) that meet the Bank’s eligibility criteria. In addition, the Bank has entered into master netting agreements and bilateral credit support agreements with all active derivative dealer counterparties that provide for delivery of collateral at specified levels to limit the Bank’s net unsecured credit exposure to these counterparties. Under these policies and agreements, the amount of unsecured credit exposure to an individual derivative dealer counterparty is set at zero (subject to a minimum transfer amount). The Bank clears its cleared derivative transactions only through clearing agents that meet the Bank’s eligibility requirements, and the Bank’s credit exposure to the clearinghouse is secured by variation margin received from the clearinghouse. All credit exposure from derivative transactions entered into by the Bank with member counterparties that are not derivative dealers must be fully secured by eligible collateral. The Bank evaluated the potential for the fair value of the instruments to be affected by counterparty credit risk and determined that no adjustments to the overall fair value measurements were required.
The fair values of the derivative assets and liabilities include accrued interest receivable/payable and cash collateral remitted to/received from counterparties. The estimated fair values of the accrued interest receivable/payable and cash collateral approximate their carrying values because of their short-term nature. The fair values of derivatives that met the netting requirements are presented on a net basis. If these netted amounts are positive, they are classified as an asset and, if negative, they are classified as a liability.
Consolidated Obligations Recorded Under the Fair Value Option Because quoted prices in active markets are not generally available for identical liabilities, the Bank measures fair values using internally developed models that use primarily market-observable inputs. The Bank’s primary input for measuring the fair value of consolidated obligation bonds is a market-based CO Curve obtained from the Office of Finance. The Office of Finance constructs the CO Curve using the Treasury yield curve as a base curve, which is adjusted by indicative consolidated obligation spreads obtained from market-observable sources. These market indications are generally derived from pricing indications from dealers, historical pricing relationships, and market activity for similar liabilities, such as recent GSE issuances or secondary market activity. For consolidated obligation bonds with embedded options, the Bank also obtains market-observable inputs, such as volatility assumptions, which are market-based expectations of future interest rate volatility implied from current market prices for similar options (swaption volatility and volatility skew).
Adjustments may be necessary to reflect the Bank’s credit quality or the credit quality of the FHLBank System when valuing consolidated obligation bonds measured at fair value. The Bank monitors its own creditworthiness and the creditworthiness of the other FHLBanks and the FHLBank System to determine whether any adjustments are necessary for creditworthiness in its fair value measurement of consolidated obligation bonds. The credit ratings of the FHLBank System and any changes to the credit ratings are the basis for the Bank to determine whether the fair values of consolidated obligations recorded under the fair value option have been significantly affected during the reporting period by changes in the instrument-specific credit risk.
Subjectivity of Estimates Related to Fair Values of Financial Instruments. Estimates of the fair value of financial assets and liabilities using the methodologies described above are subjective and require judgments regarding significant matters, such as the amount and timing of future cash flows, prepayment speed assumptions, expected interest rate volatility, methods to determine possible distributions of future interest rates used to value options, and the selection of discount rates that appropriately reflect market and credit risks. Changes in these judgments often have a material effect on the fair value estimates.

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Fair Value Measurements. The tables below present the fair value of assets and liabilities, which are recorded on a recurring or nonrecurring basis at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, by level within the fair value hierarchy.
March 31, 2019         
March 31, 2020         
Fair Value Measurement Using: 
Netting Adjustments
 and Cash

  Fair Value Measurement Using: 
Netting Adjustments
 and Cash

  
Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
 Collateral(1)

 Total
Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
 Collateral(1)

 Total
Recurring fair value measurements – Assets:                  
Trading securities:                  
GSEs – FFCB bonds$
 $605
 $
 $
 $605
MBS:         
Other U.S. obligations – Ginnie Mae
 5
 
 
 5
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$
 $4,315
 $
 $
 $4,315
MBS – Other U.S. obligations – Ginnie Mae
 4
 
 
 4
Total trading securities
 610
 
 
 610

 4,319
 
 
 4,319
AFS securities:                  
GSEs - multifamily
 5,381
 
 
 5,381
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities
 5,353
 
 
 5,353
MBS:         
GSEs – multifamily
 8,596
 
 
 8,596
PLRMBS
 
 3,055
 
 3,055

 
 2,226
 
 2,226
Subtotal MBS
 8,596
 2,226
 
 10,822
Total AFS securities
 5,381
 3,055
 
 8,436

 13,949
 2,226
 
 16,175
Advances(2)

 5,053
 
 
 5,053

 4,334
 
 
 4,334
Derivative assets, net: interest rate-related
 65
 
 181
 246

 42
 
 17
 59
Derivative assets, net: mortgage delivery commitments
 3
 
 
 3
Other assets17
 
 
 
 17
16
 
 
 
 16
Total recurring fair value measurements – Assets$17
 $11,109
 $3,055
 $181
 $14,362
$16
 $22,647
 $2,226
 $17
 $24,906
Recurring fair value measurements – Liabilities:                  
Consolidated obligation bonds(3)
$
 $1,191
 $
 $
 $1,191
$
 $254
 $
 $
 $254
Derivative liabilities, net: interest rate-related
 201
 
 (200) 1

 1,055
 
 (1,055) 
Total recurring fair value measurements – Liabilities$
 $1,392
 $
 $(200) $1,192
$
 $1,309
 $
 $(1,055) $254
Nonrecurring fair value measurements – Assets:(4)
                  
Impaired mortgage loans held for portfolio$
 $
 $1
 $
 $1
$
 $
 $2
 $
 $2
Total nonrecurring fair value measurements – Assets$
 $
 $1
 $
 $1
$
 $
 $2
 $
 $2

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December 31, 2018         
December 31, 2019         
Fair Value Measurement Using: 
Netting Adjustments
 and Cash

  Fair Value Measurement Using: 
Netting Adjustments
 and Cash

  
Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
 Collateral(1)

 Total
Level 1
 Level 2
 Level 3
 
 Collateral(1)

 Total
Recurring fair value measurements – Assets:                  
Trading securities:                  
GSEs – FFCB bonds$
 $656
 $
 $
 $656
MBS:         
Other U.S. obligations – Ginnie Mae
 5
 
 
 5
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$
 $1,762
 $
 $
 $1,762
MBS – Other U.S. obligations – Ginnie Mae
 4
 
 
 4
Total trading securities
 661
 
 
 661

 1,766
 
 
 1,766
AFS securities:                  
GSEs - multifamily
 3,774
 
 
 3,774
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities
 5,288
 
 
 5,288
MBS:         
GSEs – multifamily
 7,610
 
 
 7,610
PLRMBS
 
 3,157
 
 3,157

 
 2,597
 
 2,597
Subtotal MBS
 7,610
 2,597
 
 10,207
Total AFS securities
 3,774
 3,157
 
 6,931

 12,898
 2,597
 
 15,495
Advances(2)

 5,133
 
 
 5,133

 4,370
 
 
 4,370
Derivative assets, net: interest rate-related
 86
 
 99
 185

 44
 
 (11) 33
Other assets16
 
 
 
 16
19
 
 
 
 19
Total recurring fair value measurements – Assets$16
 $9,654
 $3,157
 $99
 $12,926
$19
 $19,078
 $2,597
 $(11) $21,683
Recurring fair value measurements – Liabilities:                  
Consolidated obligation bonds(3)
$
 $2,019
 $
 $
 $2,019
$
 $337
 $
 $
 $337
Derivative liabilities, net: interest rate-related
 147
 
 (137) 10

 384
 
 (384) 
Total recurring fair value measurements – Liabilities$
 $2,166
 $
 $(137) $2,029
$
 $721
 $
 $(384) $337
Nonrecurring fair value measurements – Assets:(4)
                  
Impaired mortgage loans held for portfolio$
 $
 $2
 $
 $2
$
 $
 $1
 $
 $1
Total nonrecurring fair value measurements – Assets$
 $
 $2
 $
 $2
$
 $
 $1
 $
 $1
(1)Amounts represent the application of the netting requirements that allow the Bank to settle positive and negative positions, and also cash collateral and related accrued interest held or placed by the Bank, with the same clearing agents and/or counterparty.
(2)
Represents advances recorded under the fair value option at March 31, 20192020, and December 31, 20182019.
(3)
Represents consolidated obligation bonds recorded under the fair value option at March 31, 20192020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
(4)The fair value information presented is as of the date the fair value adjustment was recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2019,2020, and the year ended December 31, 2018.2019.
The following table presents a reconciliation of the Bank’s AFS PLRMBS that are measured at fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.
 Three Months Ended
 March 31, 2019
 March 31, 2018
Balance, beginning of the period$3,157
 $3,833
Total gain/(loss) realized and unrealized included in:   
Interest income18
 22
Net OTTI loss, credit-related(1) (1)
Unrealized gain/(loss) of other-than-temporarily impaired securities included in AOCI14
 17
Net amount of OTTI loss reclassified to/(from) other income/(loss)
 (2)
Settlements(133) (183)
Balance, end of the period$3,055
 $3,686
Total amount of gain/(loss) for the period included in earnings attributable to the change in unrealized gains/losses relating to assets and liabilities still held at the end of the period$17
 $21

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 Three Months Ended
 March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
Balance, beginning of the period$2,597
 $3,157
Total gain/(loss) realized and unrealized included in:   
Interest income/(loss)19
 18
(Provision for)/reversal of credit losses(39) 
Other income, net
 (1)
Unrealized gain/(loss) included in AOCI(234) 14
Settlements(118) (133)
Transfers of HTM securities to AFS securities1
 
Balance, end of the period$2,226
 $3,055
Total amount of gain/(loss) for the period included in earnings attributable to the change in unrealized gains/losses relating to assets and liabilities still held at the end of the period$(19) $17

Fair Value Option. The fair value option provides an entity with an irrevocable option to elect fair value as an alternative measurement for selected financial assets, financial liabilities, unrecognized firm commitments, and written loan commitments not previously carried at fair value. It requires an entity to display the fair value of those assets and liabilities for which the entity has chosen to use fair value on the face of the Statements of Condition. Fair value is used for both the initial and subsequent measurement of the designated assets, liabilities, and commitments, with the changes in fair value recognized in net income. Interest income and interest expense on advances and consolidated bonds carried at fair value are recognized solely on the contractual amount of interest due or unpaid. Any transaction fees or costs are immediately recognized in non-interest income or non-interest expense.
For more information on the Bank’s election of the fair value option, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 19 – Fair Values” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
The Bank has elected the fair value option for certain financial instruments to assist in mitigating potential earnings volatility that can arise from economic hedging relationships in which the carrying value of the hedged item is not adjusted for changes in fair value. The potential earnings volatility associated with using fair value only for the derivative is the Bank’s primary reason for electing the fair value option for financial assets and liabilities that do not qualify for hedge accounting or that have not previously met or may be at risk for not meeting the hedge effectiveness requirements.
The following table summarizes the activity related to financial assets and liabilities for which the Bank elected the fair value option during the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018:2019:
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
March 31, 2019 March 31, 2018March 31, 2020 March 31, 2019
Advances
 
Consolidated
Obligation Bonds

 Advances
 
Consolidated
Obligation Bonds

Advances
 
Consolidated
Obligation Bonds

 Advances
 
Consolidated
Obligation Bonds

Balance, beginning of the period$5,133
 $2,019
 $6,431
 $949
$4,370
 $337
 $5,133
 $2,019
New transactions elected for fair value option
 
 1,222
 374
7,070
 
 
 
Maturities and terminations(125) (830) (968) 
(7,197) (85) (125) (830)
Net gain/(loss) from changes in fair value recognized in earnings46
 7
 (49) (8)
Net gain/(loss) on advances and net (gain)/loss on consolidated obligation bonds from changes in fair value recognized in earnings91
 2
 46
 7
Change in accrued interest(1) (5) 1
 

 
 (1) (5)
Balance, end of the period$5,053
 $1,191
 $6,637
 $1,315
$4,334
 $254
 $5,053
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For instruments for which the fair value option has been elected, the related contractual interest income and contractual interest expense are recorded as part of net interest income on the Statements of Income. The remaining changes in fair value for instruments for which the fair value option has been elected are recorded as net gains/ (losses) on financial instruments held under the fair value option in the Statements of Income, except for changes in fair value related to instrument-specific credit risk, which are recorded in AOCI on the Statements of Condition. For advances and consolidated obligations recorded under the fair value option, the Bank determined that none of the remaining changes in fair value were related to instrument-specific credit risk for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019. In determining that there has been no change in instrument-specific credit risk period to period, the Bank primarily considered the following factors:
The Bank is a federally chartered GSE, and as a result of this status, the consolidated obligations have historically received the same credit ratings as the government bond credit rating of the United States, even though they are not obligations of the United States and are not guaranteed by the United States.
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The following table presents the difference between the aggregate remaining contractual principal balance outstanding and aggregate fair value of advances and consolidated obligation bonds for which the Bank elected the fair value option at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018:2019:
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Principal Balance
 Fair Value
 
Fair Value
Over/(Under)
Principal Balance

 Principal Balance
 Fair Value
 
Fair Value
Over/(Under)
Principal Balance

Principal Balance
 Fair Value
 
Fair Value
Over/(Under)
Principal Balance

 Principal Balance
 Fair Value
 
Fair Value
Over/(Under)
Principal Balance

Advances(1)
$5,037
 $5,053
 $16
 $5,162
 $5,133
 $(29)$4,162
 $4,334
 $172
 $4,287
 $4,370
 $83
Consolidated obligation bonds1,194
 1,191
 (3) 2,024
 2,019
 (5)250
 254
 4
 335
 337
 2
(1)
At March 31, 20192020, and December 31, 2018,2019, none of these advances were 90 days or more past due or had been placed on nonaccrual status.
Note 1713 — Commitments and Contingencies
As provided by the FHLBank Act or regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks, all FHLBanks have joint and several liability for all FHLBank consolidated obligations, which are backed only by the financial resources of the FHLBanks. The joint and several liability regulation authorizes the Finance Agency to require any FHLBank to repay all or a portion of the principal or interest on consolidated obligations for which another FHLBank is the primary obligor. The regulations provide a general framework for addressing the possibility that an FHLBank may be unable to repay the consolidated obligations for which it is the primary obligor. The Bank has never been asked or required to repay the principal or interest on any consolidated obligation on behalf of another FHLBank, and as of March 31, 2019,2020, and through the filing date of this report, does not believe that it is probable that it will be asked to do so. The par value of the outstanding consolidated obligations of the FHLBanks was $1,010,895$1,174,670 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $1,031,617$1,025,895 at December 31, 2018.2019. The par value of the Bank’s participation in consolidated obligations was $102,472$117,062 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $101,609$98,817 at December 31, 2018.2019. For more information on the joint and several liability regulation, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 20 – Commitments and Contingencies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
Off-balance sheet commitments as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, were as follows:

 March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018
 
Expire Within
One Year

 
Expire After
One Year

 Total
 
Expire Within
One Year

 
Expire After
One Year

 Total
Standby letters of credit outstanding$14,172
 $4,682
 $18,854
 $13,661
 $4,418
 $18,079
Commitments to issue consolidated obligation discount notes, par
 
 
 350
 
 350
Commitments to issue consolidated obligation bonds, par25
 
 25
 
 
 
Commitments to purchase mortgage loans33
 
 33
 12
 
 12
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)



 March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
 
Expire Within
One Year

 
Expire After
One Year

 Total
 
Expire Within
One Year

 
Expire After
One Year

 Total
Standby letters of credit outstanding$15,207
 $4,954
 $20,161
 $16,898
 $4,658
 $21,556
Commitments to fund additional advances24
 
 24
 
 
 
Commitments to issue consolidated obligation discount notes, par250
 
 250
 805
 
 805
Commitments to issue consolidated obligation bonds, par1,160
 
 1,160
 
 
 
Commitments to purchase mortgage loans87
 
 87
 46
 
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Standby letters of credit are generally issued for a fee on behalf of members to support their obligations to third parties. If the Bank is required to make a payment for a beneficiary’s drawing under a letter of credit, the amount is immediately due and payable by the member to the Bank and is charged to the member’s demand deposit account with the Bank. TheAt March 31, 2020, the original terms of these standby letters of credit range from 142 days to 15 years, including a final expiration in 2033.2035. The Bank monitors the creditworthiness of members that have standby letters of credit. The value of the Bank’s obligations related to standby letters of credit is recorded in other liabilities and amounted to $29$33 at March 31, 2019,2020, and $27$32 at December 31, 2018.2019. Standby letters of credit are fully collateralized at the time of issuance. Based on the Bank’s credit analyses of members’ financial condition and collateral requirements, the Bank deemed it unnecessary to record any additional liability for credit losses on the letters of credit outstanding or other off-balance sheet commitments as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.

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NotesCommitments to Financial Statements (continued)



fund advances totaled $24 at March 31, 2020. There were no commitments to fund advances at March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.2019. Advances funded under advance commitments are fully collateralized at the time of funding (see Note 9 – Allowance for Credit Losses).funding. Based on the Bank’s credit analyses of members’ financial condition and collateral requirements, the Bank deemed it unnecessary to record any additional liability for credit losses on the advance commitments outstanding as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.2020.
The Bank may enter into commitments that unconditionally obligate it to purchase mortgage loans from its members. Commitments are generally for periods not exceeding 60 days. Delivery commitments are recorded at fair value as derivative assets or derivative liabilities in the Statements of Condition.
The Bank has pledged securities as collateral related to derivatives. See Note 11 – Derivatives and Hedging Activities for additional information about the Bank’s pledged collateral and other credit-risk-related contingent features. As of March 31, 2020, the Bank had pledged total collateral of $1,725, including securities with a carrying value of $643, all of which may be repledged, and cash collateral and related accrued interest of $1,082 to counterparties and the clearinghouse that had market risk exposure to the Bank related to derivatives. As of December 31, 2019, the Bank had pledged total collateral of $759, including securities with a carrying value of $381, all of which may be repledged, and cash collateral and related accrued interest of $378 to counterparties and the clearinghouse that had market risk exposure to the Bank related to derivatives.
The Bank may be subject to various pending legal proceedings that may arise in the ordinary course of business. After consultation with legal counsel, the Bank does not anticipate that the ultimate liability, if any, arising out of these matters will have a material effect on its financial condition or results of operations.
Note 1814 — Transactions with Certain Members, Certain Nonmembers, and Other FHLBanks
Transactions with Members and Nonmembers. The following tables set forth information at the dates and for the periods indicated with respect to transactions with members that have an officer or director serving on the Bank’s Board of Directors.

  
March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Assets:   
Advances$3,862
 $4,192
Mortgage loans held for portfolio10
 11
Accrued interest receivable9
 7
Liabilities:   
Deposits$20
 $11
Capital:   
Capital Stock$133
 $149
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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)



  
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Assets:   
Advances$3,896
 $3,697
Mortgage loans held for portfolio
 8
Accrued interest receivable5
 6
Liabilities:   
Deposits$3
 $22
Capital:   
Capital Stock$132
 $132

Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
March 31, 2019
 March 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
Interest Income:      
Advances$22
 $14
$20
 $22

All transactions with members, nonmembers, and their affiliates are entered into in the ordinary course of business. As of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, no shareholder owned more than 10% of the total voting interests in the Bank because of the statutory limit on members' voting rights. For more information on transactions with members and nonmembers, see “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 21 – Transactions with Certain Members, Certain Nonmembers, and Other FHLBanks” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
Transactions with Other FHLBanks. The Bank may occasionally enter into transactions with other FHLBanks. These transactions are summarized below.
Deposits with other FHLBanks. The Bank may, from time to time, maintain deposits with other FHLBanks. Deposits with other FHLBanks totaled $1$2 and $1 at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively, which were recorded in the Statements of Condition in the Cash and due from banksInterest-bearing deposits line item.
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FHLBanks are included in interest income and interest expense in the Statements of Income. Balances outstanding at period end with other FHLBanks, if any, are identified in the Bank’s financial statements. During the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank extended overnight loans to other FHLBanks for $1,050$900 and $100,$1,050, respectively. During the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank borrowed $25$850 and $1,500,$25, respectively, from other FHLBanks. The impact to net interest income related to these transactions was de minimis during bothfor all periods in this report.
MPF Mortgage Loans. The Bank pays a transaction servicesmembership fee to the FHLBank of Chicago for its participation in the MPF program. ThisProgram and a transaction services fee that is assessed monthly and is based on the amount of mortgage loans in which the Bank invested and which remain outstanding on its Statements of Condition. For the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank recorded $1 and $1, respectively, in MPF membership fee expense and transaction services fee expense to the FHLBank of Chicago, which was recorded in the Statements of Income as other expense.Chicago.
In addition, the Bank receives a counterparty fee from the FHLBank of Chicago for facilitating the sale of loans under the MPF program.Program. For the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank recorded a de minimis amountamounts in MPF counterparty fee income from the FHLBank of Chicago, which waswere recorded in the Statements of Income as other income.

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Notes to Financial Statements (continued)



Consolidated Obligations. The Bank may, from time to time, transfer to or assume from another FHLBank the outstanding primary liability for FHLBank consolidated obligations. During the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, the Bank did not transfer any debt to other FHLBanks or assume any debt from other FHLBanks.
Transactions with the Office of Finance. The Bank’s proportionate share of the cost of operating the Office of Finance is identified in the Statements of Income.
Note 1915 — Subsequent Events
There were no material subsequent events identified, subsequent to March 31, 2019,2020, until the time of the Form 10‑Q filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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ITEM 2.MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

Statements contained in this quarterly report on Form 10-Q, including statements describing the objectives, projections, estimates, or predictions of the future of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (Bank) or the Federal Home Loan Bank System (FHLBank System), are “forward-looking statements.” These statements may use forward-looking terms, such as “anticipate,” “believe,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intend,” “likely,” “may,” “probable,” “project,” “should,” “will,” or their negatives or other variations on these terms, and include statements related to, among others, gains and losses on derivatives, plans to pay dividends and redeem or repurchase excess capital stock, future other-than-temporary impairment losses, future classification of securities, and reform legislation. The Bank cautions that by their nature, forward-looking statements involve risk or uncertainty that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in these forward-looking statements or could affect the extent to which a particular objective, projection, estimate, or prediction is realized. These risks and uncertainties include, among others, the following:
changes in economic and market conditions, including conditions in the mortgage, housing, and capital markets;
the volatility of market prices, rates, and indices;
the timing and volume of market activity;
political events, including legislative, regulatory, judicial, or other developments that affect the Bank, its members, counterparties, or investors in the consolidated obligations of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks), such as the impact of any government-sponsored enterprises (GSE) legislative reforms, changes in the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932, as amended (FHLBank Act), changes in applicable sections of the Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992, or changes in other statutes or regulations applicable to the FHLBanks;
changes in the Bank’s capital structure and composition;
the ability of the Bank to pay dividends or redeem or repurchase capital stock;
membership changes, including changes resulting from mergers or changes in the principal place of business of Bank members;
the soundness of other financial institutions, including Bank members, nonmember borrowers, other counterparties, and the other FHLBanks;
changes in Bank members’ demand for Bank advances;
changes in the value or liquidity of collateral underlying advances to Bank members or nonmember borrowers or collateral pledged by the Bank’s derivative counterparties;
changes in the fair value and economic value of, impairments of, and risks associated with the Bank’s investments in mortgage loans and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) or other assets and the related credit enhancement protections;
changes in the Bank’s ability or intent to hold MBS and mortgage loans to maturity;
competitive forces, including the availability of other sources of funding for Bank members;
the willingness of the Bank’s members to do business with the Bank;
changes in investor demand for consolidated obligations (including the terms of consolidated obligations) and/or the terms of interest rate exchange or similar agreements;
the impact of any changes and developments in FHLBank System-wide debt issuance and governance practices;
the ability of each of the other FHLBanks to repay the principal and interest on consolidated obligations for which it is the primary obligor and with respect to which the Bank has joint and several liability;
changes in key Bank personnel;
technology changes and enhancements, and the Bank’s ability to develop and support technology and information systems sufficient to manage the risks of the Bank’s business effectively; and
changes in the FHLBanks’ long-term credit ratings.ratings;
the impending discontinuance of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or any other interest rate benchmark and the adverse consequences it could have for market participants, including the Bank;
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natural disasters, pandemics, or other widespread health emergencies (such as the recent outbreak of COVID-19), terrorist attacks, or other unanticipated or catastrophic events.
Readers of this report should not rely solely on the forward-looking statements and should consider all risks and uncertainties addressed throughout this report, as well as those discussed under “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in this report and in the Bank’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018 (20182019 (2019 Form 10-K).

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Quarterly Overview
The Bank serves eligible financial institutions in Arizona, California and Nevada, the three states that make up the Eleventh District of the FHLBank System. The Bank’s primary business is providing competitively priced, collateralized loans, known as advances, to its member institutions and certain qualifying housing associates. The Bank’s principal source of funds is debt issued in the capital markets. All 11 FHLBanks issue debt in the form of consolidated obligations through the Office of Finance as their agent, and all 11 FHLBanks are jointly and severally liable for the repayment of all consolidated obligations.
The Bank experienced strong earnings in the first quarterincurred a net loss of 2019. Net income for the quarter was $104 million, compared with net income of $81$8 million for the first quarter of 2018. The $23 million increase in2020, compared with net income primarily reflected improvements in net fair value gains and losses associated with derivatives, hedge items, and financial instruments carried at fair value, and a decrease in the expense associated with voluntary charitable contributionsof $104 million for the Quality Jobs Fund, from $10 million in the first quarter of 2018 to $5 million in the first quarter of 2019. The increase$112 million decrease in net income/(loss) relative to the prior-year period primarily reflected a $95 million decrease in net interest income, from $144 million for the first quarter of 2019 to $49 million for the first quarter of 2020. As a result of the global COVID-19 pandemic, conditions in the financial markets deteriorated significantly beginning in late February and into March 2020, causing significant disruption to the availability of funds in the credit markets and resulting in adverse changes in interest rates, credit spreads, and asset prices. The decrease in net interest income, driven both by lower interest rates and by increases in credit spreads, was primarily attributable to an increase of $43 million in net fair value losses on designated fair value hedges, from $10 million for the first quarter of 2019 to $53 million for the first quarter of 2020. The decrease in net interest income also reflected a retrospective adjustment of the effective yields on mortgage loans of $15 million, driven by faster projected prepayments because of lower mortgage rates. Finally, the decrease in net income/(loss) also reflected a provision for current expected credit losses of $39 million for the first quarter of 2020 associated with certain private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (PLRMBS) classified as available-for-sale (AFS), primarily resulting from a significant decline in fair values.
The decrease in net interest income was partially offset by a $4 million decreasedecline in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) assessments. Because of the net interest incomeloss in the first quarter of 2020, the Bank recorded no AHP assessment for the quarter. In the first quarter of 2019, relative to the prior-year period, reflecting a decline in spreads on interest-earning assets.AHP assessment was $12 million.
Retained earnings grewdecreased to $3.4 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $3.3$3.5 billion at December 31, 2018,2019, primarily resulting from a net loss of $8 million in the first three months of 2020 and the Bankdividends paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $54 million, including $50$52 million in dividends on capital stock and $4$2 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock during the first quarter 2019.three months of 2020.
Total assets increased $1.3$18.1 billion during 2019,the first three months of 2020, to $110.6$124.9 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $109.3$106.8 billion at December 31, 2018. Investments2019. Total advances increased $4.1$12.5 billion, to $36.5$77.9 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $32.4$65.4 billion at December 31, 2018,2019. During March 2020, the Bank experienced increased demand for advances to support its members' liquidity needs in response to the pandemic and maintained its liquidity investments in compliance with Finance Agency guidance. As interest rates declined significantly during the quarter, investor demand for high credit quality, fixed income investments, including the Bank’s consolidated obligations, increased, and the Bank continued to meet its funding needs during this time. Investments increased $5.4 billion, to $43.0 billion at March 31, 2020, from $37.6 billion at December 31, 2019. The increase in investments primarily reflectingreflected an increase of $6.5 billion in Federal funds sold, available-for-salean increase of $2.6 billion in trading securities, (AFS), and an increase of $1.3 billion in interest-bearing deposits, partially offset by a decrease of $5.0 billion in securities purchased under agreements to resell. Total advances decreased $3.1 billion, to $70.3 billion at March 31, 2019, from $73.4 billion at December 31, 2018.

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Accumulated other comprehensive income increasedincome/(loss) (AOCI) decreased by $52502 million during the first three months of 2019,2020, to $287accumulated other comprehensive loss of $228 million at March 31, 2019,2020, from $235accumulated other comprehensive income of $274 million at December 31, 2018,2019, primarily as a result of improvement in thelower fair valuevalues of MBS classified as AFS.
On April 25, 2019,27, 2020, the Bank’s Board of Directors declared a quarterly cash dividend on the capital stock outstanding during the first quarter of 20192020 at an annualized rate of 7.00%5.00%. The dividend will total $56$39 million, including $4$2 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock that will be reflected as interest expense in the second quarter of 2019.2020. The Bank recorded the dividend on April 25, 2019,27, 2020, and expects to pay the dividend on or about May 14, 2019.2020. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to contain the spread of the virus, U.S. and global economies face great challenges and ongoing uncertainty. To preserve capital in this uncertain environment, the Bank’s Board of Directors has decided to pay a quarterly dividend rate at the low end of the range stated in the Bank's dividend philosophy.
As of March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank was in compliance with all of its regulatory capital requirements. The Bank’s total regulatory capital ratio was 6.0%5.4%, exceeding the 4.0% requirement. The Bank had $6.6$6.7 billion in permanent capital, exceeding its risk-based capital requirement of $1.9$1.4 billion.
The Bank will continue to monitor the condition of its balance sheet, its financial performance, its capital position, overall financial market conditions, and other relevant information as the basis for determining the payment of dividends in future quarters.
Primarily due to the COVID-19 pandemic, conditions in the financial markets deteriorated significantly beginning in late February and into March 2020, creating substantial uncertainty about the future economic activity and environment. The Federal Reserve undertook a number of emergency actions in March 2020 to, among other things, help facilitate liquidity and support stability in the fixed income markets while volatility across global capital markets dramatically increased. Notably, the Federal Reserve substantially increased its provision of liquidity to the repurchase agreement and U.S. Treasury markets via open market operations while also providing liquidity to related markets, such as the commercial paper market, via an array of new programs, as part of a commitment to using a full range of tools to support households, businesses, and the U.S. economy overall in this challenging time. The effects of the coronavirus pandemic, and governmental and public actions taken in response, on the global and U.S. economy and the Bank are evolving, and the full duration and impact of the pandemic and related governmental and public actions are uncertain.
The Bank’s operations in the first quarter of 2020 were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Bank’s staff began working remotely in mid-March 2020 to protect the Bank’s workforce and communities. The ultimate impact of the disruption caused by the outbreak is uncertain. Possible effects of a remote workforce may include, but are not limited to, operational incidents, additional cyber-security risks, and operational challenges that could affect the Bank’s ability to conduct business or increase the risk of operational errors. In addition, the Bank relies on vendors and other third parties to perform certain critical services. If one of our critical vendors or third parties experiences a failure or any interruption to their business due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank may be unable to conduct and manage its business effectively.
To address the operational impact of the pandemic, the Bank maintains a Board-approved Business Continuity Management Program, along with a Crisis Management Plan and Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), which are updated and tested annually. The Bank’s BCPs provide procedures to ensure personnel safety and welfare, to safeguard the Bank’s assets, including physical property and information, and to permit the continued operations of the Bank in the event of a short-term disruption or long-term catastrophic event. The Bank’s BCPs contain operating procedures for all critical processes and identify resources and staff necessary to continue operations based on business defined recovery time objectives and communication requirements for internal and external stakeholders.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank’s leadership team has also reconfirmed its succession plan in the event any key team leader becomes incapacitated or is unable to perform his or her duties.

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The Bank continued to meet its funding needs throughout recent events; however, funding costs, measured as the spread between the Bank’s consolidated obligations and U.S. Treasury securities, increased, with market participants favoring shorter-term obligations, while fixed income market conditions remained challenging. The FHLBanks coordinated and cooperated in the issuance of FHLBank System consolidated obligations, including being prepared to provide an orderly allocation of debt if needed and issuing certain structures and tenors that reduced the funding risks to the FHLBanks. As a consequence of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Operations in response to market disruptions, interest rates declined significantly, improving stability in the funding markets, increasing investor demand for System consolidated obligations, and reducing the need for coordination of debt issuance by the FHLBanks.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank’s member demand for advances increased notably in March, but future demand for advances may decrease because of lower interest rates and reduced member asset activity, while the risk of credit losses has likely increased. Other possible effects from the COVID-19 pandemic may include, but are not limited to, disruption to the Bank’s members, uncertainties in the credit markets, and a decline in the fair value of assets.
The market disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has also affected the valuation of mortgage collateral pledged to the Bank to secure advances, and the Bank has responded by adjusting collateral terms to reflect current market conditions. The Bank will continue to monitor credit and collateral conditions and make adjustments as needed. Because of the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank is working with members on a case by case basis to reschedule field reviews of collateral or conduct an electronic file review and postpone the onsite portion of the review.
In addition, the Bank implemented certain relief measures in April 2020 to help members serve customers affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as accommodating forbearance and modifications to pledged loan collateral and allowing electronic signatures on loan documentation in specific circumstances. The Board of Directors has also approved subsidized programs to assist our members in responding to the challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic:
(i)The Bank is offering a new credit product–the Recovery Advance–that provides a six-month or one-year advance with a 0% interest rate to support members in their efforts to address COVID-19. The Bank estimates that the subsidy for the new product will range from $11 million to $15 million (depending on advances rates, interest rates, and member activity);
(ii)Through the Access to Housing and Economic Assistance for Development Program, the Bank will provide an additional $1.0 million to support and augment working capital, infrastructure, and capacity building for nonprofit organizations, tribal associations, and local governments affected by the COVID-19 pandemic;
(iii)The Bank will add $1.5 million to the Bank’s disaster relief matching donation program to match member donations to communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic; and
(iv)The Bank has increased the overall limit on the Bank’s Community Investment Cash Advance programs–Community Investment Program and Advances for Community Enterprise–from $8.0 billion to $13.0 billion and doubled the individual member limits, which are based on the member’s asset size. The total subsidy, if the funds are fully utilized, would be approximately $3 million.
Also, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Finance Agency has taken certain actions to provide various forms of relief and guidance regarding the financial, operational, credit, market, and other effects of the pandemic. See “Part II. Other Information – Item 1A. Risk Factors” for more information.
On October 2, 2019, the Financing Corporation, formed pursuant to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation Recapitalization Act of 1987 to provide financing for the resolution of failed savings and loan associations, commenced the process of dissolution in accordance with relevant statutory requirements and the terms of a plan of dissolution approved by the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Finance Agency). In connection with the pending dissolution of the Financing Corporation, an aggregate of approximately $200 million in the Financing Corporation’s surplus and remaining cash on hand is expected to be distributed in the second quarter of 2020 to the FHLBanks, as the Financing Corporation’s sole stockholders, in proportion to their

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ownership in the Financing Corporation’s nonvoting capital stock. The Bank’s ownership in the Financing Corporation’s nonvoting capital stock is 19.96%. The receipt by the FHLBanks of any such distribution from the Financing Corporation will be treated as a partial return of their prior capital contributions to the Financing Corporation and credited to their retained earnings.
On April 6, 2020, the Bank filed a proof of claim as a “potentially eligible claimant” to share in disgorgement proceeds paid into a distribution fund in connection with a Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement action. The potential distribution payment to the Bank may be significant; however, there can be no assurance that the Bank will receive any distribution payment. Any distribution payment to the Bank is subject to acceptance of the proof of claim by the distribution agent and a court order to disburse the funds.
Financial Highlights
The following table presents a summary of certain financial information for the Bank for the periods indicated.
Financial Highlights
(Unaudited)
(Dollars in millions)March 31,
2019

 December 31,
2018

 September 30,
2018

 June 30,
2018

 March 31,
2018

March 31,
2020

 December 31,
2019

 September 30,
2019

 June 30,
2019

 March 31,
2019

Selected Balance Sheet Items at Quarter End                  
Total Assets$110,577
 $109,326
 $102,973
 $106,208
 $109,225
$124,870
 $106,842
 $104,153
 $106,762
 $110,577
Advances70,262
 73,434
 69,359
 70,314
 66,642
77,872
 65,374
 62,826
 67,189
 70,262
Mortgage Loans Held for Portfolio, Net3,160
 3,066
 2,892
 2,728
 2,376
3,239
 3,314
 3,382
 3,327
 3,160
Investments(1)
36,494
 32,381
 30,292
 32,703
 39,832
43,016
 37,637
 37,490
 35,180
 36,494
Consolidated Obligations:(2)
                  
Bonds74,094
 72,276
 71,405
 74,061
 74,297
77,937
 71,372
 67,431
 73,915
 74,094
Discount Notes28,281
 29,182
 24,030
 24,519
 27,703
39,102
 27,376
 28,605
 24,901
 28,281
Mandatorily Redeemable Capital Stock227
 227
 227
 255
 309
83
 138
 138
 138
 227
Capital Stock —Class B —Putable2,959
 2,949
 2,883
 2,850
 3,068
3,231
 3,000
 2,898
 2,967
 2,959
Unrestricted Retained Earnings2,732
 2,699
 2,737
 2,707
 2,681
2,691
 2,754
 2,715
 2,719
 2,732
Restricted Retained Earnings668
 647
 633
 612
 592
713
 713
 690
 678
 668
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income/(Loss) (AOCI)287
 235
 337
 330
 335
(228) 274
 267
 300
 287
Total Capital6,646
 6,530
 6,590
 6,499
 6,676
6,407
 6,741
 6,570
 6,664
 6,646
Selected Operating Results for the Quarter                  
Net Interest Income$144
 $146
 $153
 $154
 $148
$49
 $165
 $112
 $110
 $144
Provision for/(Reversal of) Credit Losses on Mortgage Loans
 
 
 
 
Provision for/(Reversal of) Credit Losses39
 
 
 
 
Other Income/(Loss)15
 (15) 7
 5
 (8)18
 10
 3
 (7) 15
Other Expense43
 49
 46
 43
 49
36
 49
 47
 48
 43
Affordable Housing Program Assessment12
 9
 12
 12
 10

 13
 7
 6
 12
Net Income/(Loss)$104
 $73
 $102
 $104
 $81
$(8) $113
 $61
 $49
 $104
Selected Other Data for the Quarter                  
Net Interest Margin(3)
0.52% 0.55% 0.60% 0.58% 0.47%0.18 % 0.63% 0.44% 0.41% 0.52%
Operating Expenses as a Percent of Average Assets0.12
 0.15
 0.14
 0.13
 0.11
0.12
 0.17
 0.15
 0.15
 0.12
Return on Average Assets0.37
 0.27
 0.40
 0.38
 0.26
(0.03) 0.43
 0.24
 0.18
 0.37
Return on Average Equity6.34
 4.40
 6.26
 6.31
 4.74
(0.46) 6.82
 3.65
 2.91
 6.34
Annualized Dividend Rate7.00
 13.44
 7.00
 7.00
 7.00
7.00
 7.00
 7.00
 7.00
 7.00
Dividend Payout Ratio(4)
48.21
 138.72
 50.41
 54.78
 65.67

 45.18
 86.78
 108.09
 48.21
Average Equity to Average Assets Ratio5.87
 6.21
 6.36
 6.08
 5.40
6.09
 6.37
 6.47
 6.16
 5.87
Selected Other Data at Quarter End                  
Regulatory Capital Ratio(5)
5.96
 5.97
 6.29
 6.05
 6.09
5.38
 6.18
 6.18
 6.09
 5.96
Duration Gap (in months)1
 1
 1
 
 1

 1
 1
 1
 1

(1)Investments consist of interest-bearing deposits, securities purchased under agreements to resell, Federal funds sold, trading securities, available-for-sale securities, and held-to-maturity securities.

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(2)
As provided by the FHLBank Act or regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks, all of the FHLBanks have joint and several liability for FHLBank consolidated obligations, which are backed only by the financial resources of the FHLBanks. The joint and several liability regulation authorizes the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Finance Agency) to require any FHLBank to repay all or a portion of the principal or interest on consolidated obligations for which another FHLBank is the primary obligor. The Bank has never been asked or required to repay the principal or interest on any consolidated obligation on behalf of another FHLBank, and as of March 31, 20192020, and through the filing date of this report, does not believe that it is probable that it will be asked to do so. The par value of the outstanding consolidated obligations of all FHLBanks at the dates indicated was as follows:


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Par Value
(In millions)

March 31, 2019$1,010,895
December 31, 20181,031,617
September 30, 20181,019,098
June 30, 20181,059,859
March 31, 20181,019,229
 
Par Value
(In millions)

March 31, 2020$1,174,670
December 31, 20191,025,895
September 30, 20191,010,271
June 30, 20191,048,412
March 31, 20191,010,895

(3)Net interest margin is net interest income (annualized) divided by average interest-earning assets.
(4)This ratio is calculated as dividends per share divided by net income per share.
(5)This ratio is calculated as regulatory capital divided by total assets. Regulatory capital includes retained earnings, Class B capital stock, and mandatorily redeemable capital stock (which is classified as a liability), but excludes AOCI.

Results of Operations
Net Interest Income. The primary source of the Bank’s earnings is net interest income, which is the interest earned on advances, mortgage loans, and investments, including net accretion of related income from improvement in expected cash flows on certain other-than-temporarily-impaired private-label residential mortgage-backed securities (PLRMBS),PLRMBS, less interest paid on consolidated obligations, deposits, mandatorily redeemable capital stock, and other borrowings. The Average Balance Sheets table that follows presents the average balances of interest-earning asset categories and the sources that funded those interest-earning assets (liabilities and capital) for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, together with the related interest income and expense. It also presents the average rates on total interest-earning assets and the average costs of total funding sources.

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First Quarter of 20192020 Compared to First Quarter of 20182019
Average Balance Sheets
                      
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
March 31, 2019(1)
 March 31, 2018March 31, 2020 March 31, 2019
(Dollars in millions)
Average
Balance

 
Interest
Income/
Expense

 
Average
Rate

 
Average
Balance

 
Interest
Income/
Expense

 
Average
Rate

Average
Balance

 
Interest
Income/
Expense

 
Average
Rate

 
Average
Balance

 
Interest
Income/
Expense

 
Average
Rate

Assets                      
Interest-earning assets:                      
Interest-bearing deposits$2,230
 $14
 2.50% $1,152
 $4
 1.54%$3,430
 $12
 1.37 % $2,230
 $14
 2.50%
Securities purchased under agreements to resell7,453
 45
 2.47
 2,362
 9
 1.48
4,912
 18
 1.44
 7,453
 45
 2.47
Federal funds sold6,331
 41
 2.62
 13,852
 51
 1.51
5,242
 14
 1.12
 6,331
 41
 2.62
Trading securities:                      
MBS5
 
 3.70
 6
 
 2.69
Mortgage-backed securities (MBS)3
 
 3.50
 5
 
 3.70
Other investments613
 4
 2.70
 916
 4
 1.79
3,035
 16
 2.10
 613
 4
 2.70
AFS securities:(2)
           
Available-for-sale (AFS) securities:(1)
           
MBS(4)(3)
6,913
 79
 4.62
 3,399
 57
 6.78
10,204
 32
 1.26
 6,913
 79
 4.62
HTM securities:(2)
           
Other investments(3)
5,295
 19
 1.48
 
 
 
Held-to-maturity (HTM) securities:(1)
           
MBS10,580
 78
 3.00
 13,732
 79
 2.32
7,129
 44
 2.46
 10,580
 78
 3.00
Other investments76
 1
 2.88
 438
 2
 1.66

 
 
 76
 1
 2.88
Mortgage loans held for portfolio3,115
 26
 3.35
 2,247
 21
 3.80
3,311
 (1) (0.06) 3,115
 26
 3.35
Advances(4)
75,385
 498
 2.68
 89,082
 369
 1.68
Advances(3)
66,954
 279
 1.67
 75,385
 498
 2.68
Loans to other FHLBanks13
 
 3.49
 1
 
 1.37

 
 
 13
 
 3.49
Total interest-earning assets112,714
 786
 2.83
 127,187
 596
 1.90
109,515
 433
 1.59
 112,714
 786
 2.83
Other assets(5)(6)
1,091
 
   895
 
  
Other assets(4)(5)
1,216
 
   1,091
 
  
Total Assets$113,805
 $786
   $128,082
 $596
  $110,731
 $433
   $113,805
 $786
  
Liabilities and Capital                      
Interest-bearing liabilities:                      
Consolidated obligations:                      
Bonds(4)
$75,587
 $455
 2.44% $81,313
 $307
 1.53%
Bonds(3)
$73,730
 $276
 1.50 % $75,587
 $455
 2.44%
Discount notes30,035
 181
 2.44
 38,621
 134
 1.41
28,550
 104
 1.47
 30,035
 181
 2.44
Deposits and other borrowings268
 2
 2.39
 307
 1
 1.27
560
 2
 1.11
 268
 2
 2.39
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock227
 4
 7.16
 309
 6
 7.52
130
 2
 7.51
 227
 4
 7.16
Borrowings from other FHLBanks4
 
 2.43
 17
 
 1.66
3
 
 9.90
 4
 
 2.43
Total interest-bearing liabilities106,121
 642
 2.45
 120,567
 448
 1.51
102,973
 384
 1.50
 106,121
 642
 2.45
Other liabilities(5)
1,003
 
   601
 
  
Other liabilities(4)
1,012
 
   1,003
 
  
Total Liabilities107,124
 642
   121,168
 448
  103,985
 384
   107,124
 642
  
Total Capital6,681
 
   6,914
 
  6,746
 
   6,681
 
  
Total Liabilities and Capital$113,805
 $642
   $128,082
 $448
  $110,731
 $384
   $113,805
 $642
  
Net Interest Income  $144
     $148
    $49
     $144
  
Net Interest Spread(7)
    0.38%     0.39%
Net Interest Margin(8)
    0.52%     0.47%
Net Interest Spread(6)
    0.09 %     0.38%
Net Interest Margin(7)
    0.18 %     0.52%
Interest-earning Assets/Interest-bearing Liabilities106.21%     105.49%    106.35%     106.21%    
(1)Upon adoption of new hedging guidance applied prospectively on January 1, 2019, interest amounts reported for 2019 for advances, investment securities, and consolidated obligation bonds include the realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on hedged items and derivatives in qualifying hedge relationships.
(2)The average balances of AFS securities and HTM securities are reflected at amortized cost. As a result, the average rates do not reflect changes in fair value or non-credit-related OTTI losses.
(3)(2)Interest income on AFS securities includes accretion of yield adjustments on other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS (resulting from improvement in expected cash flows) recognized pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, totaling $15$17 million and $17$15 million for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively.
(4)(3)Interest income/expense and average rates include the effect of associated interest rate exchange agreements, as follows:

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Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
March 31, 2019March 31, 2020
(In millions)Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
 Total
Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
 Total
(Amortization)/accretion of hedging activities$
 $
 $
 $
Gain/(loss) on designated fair value hedges
 (9) 
 (9)$(8) $(45) $
 $(53)
Net interest settlements on derivatives21
 (2) (9) 10
(33) (30) 3
 (60)
Total net interest income/(expense)$21
 $(11) $(9) $1
$(41) $(75) $3
 $(113)
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
March 31, 2018March 31, 2019
(In millions)Advances
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
 Total
Advances
 AFS Securities
 Consolidated Obligation Bonds
 Total
(Amortization)/accretion of hedging activities$
 $
 $
Gain/(loss) on designated fair value hedges$
 $(9) $
 $(9)
Net interest settlements on derivatives3
 1
 4
21
 (2) (9) 10
Total net interest income/(expense)$3
 $1
 $4
$21
 $(11) $(9) $1
(5)(4)Includes forward settling transactions and valuation adjustments for certain cash items.
(6)(5)Includes non-credit-related OTTI losses on HTM securities for the first quarter of 2020. Includes non-credit-related OTTI losses on AFS and HTM securities.securities for the first quarter of 2019.
(7)(6)Net interest spread is the difference between the average rate earned on interest-earning assets and the average rate paid on interest-bearing liabilities.
(8)(7)Net interest margin is net interest income (annualized) divided by average interest-earning assets.
Net interest income in the first quarter of 20192020 was $144$49 million, a 3%66% decrease from $148$144 million in the first quarter of 2018.2019. The following table details the changes in interest income and interest expense for the first quarter of 20192020 compared to the first quarter of 2018.2019. Changes in both volume and interest rates influence changes in net interest income, net interest spread, and net interest margin.

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Change in Net Interest Income: Rate/Volume Analysis
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Change in Net Interest Income: Rate/Volume Analysis
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
Change in Net Interest Income: Rate/Volume Analysis
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
          
Increase/
(Decrease)

 
Attributable to Changes in(1)
Increase/
(Decrease)

 
Attributable to Changes in(1)
(In millions) Average Volume
 Average Rate
 Average Volume
 Average Rate
Interest-earning assets:          
Interest-bearing deposits$10
 $6
 $4
$(2) $6
 $(8)
Securities purchased under agreements to resell36
 28
 8
(27) (12) (15)
Federal funds sold(10) (36) 26
(27) (6) (21)
Trading securities: Other investments
 (2) 2
12
 13
 (1)
AFS securities: MBS(2)
22
 44
 (22)
AFS securities:

    
MBS(2)
(47) 27
 (74)
Other investments(2)
19
 19
 
HTM securities:          
MBS(1) (21) 20
(34) (22) (12)
Other investments(1) (2) 1
(1) (1) 
Mortgage loans held for portfolio5
 8
 (3)(27) 2
 (29)
Advances(2)
129
 (64) 193
(219) (50) (169)
Total interest-earning assets190
 (39) 229
(353) (24) (329)
Interest-bearing liabilities:          
Consolidated obligations:          
Bonds(2)
148
 (23) 171
(179) (11) (168)
Discount notes47
 (35) 82
(77) (8) (69)
Deposits and other borrowings1
 
 1

 1
 (1)
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock(2) (2) 
(2) (2) 
Total interest-bearing liabilities194
 (60) 254
(258) (20) (238)
Net interest income$(4) $21
 $(25)$(95) $(4) $(91)
(1)Combined rate/volume variances, a third element of the calculation, are allocated to the rate and volume variances based on their relative sizes.
(2)Interest income/expense and average rates include the interest effect of associated interest rate exchange agreements.
The net interest margin was 5218 basis points for the first quarter of 2019, 52020, 34 basis points higherlower than the net interest margin for the first quarter of 2018,2019, which was 4752 basis points. The net interest spread was 389 basis points for the first quarter of 2019, 12020, 29 basis pointpoints lower than the net interest spread for the first quarter of 2018,2019, which was 3938 basis points. The increase in net interest margin wasThese decreases were primarily due to a higherthe effects of changes in market interest rates, interest rate environment. The decrease involatility, and other market factors during the net interest spread was primarily due to a shift in the asset mix.period.
For securities previously identified as other-than-temporarily impaired pursuant to the impairment guidance in effect prior to January 1, 2020, the Bank updates its estimate of future estimated cash flows on a regular basis. If there is no additional impairmentcredit loss on the security, the yield of the security is adjusted upward on a prospective basis and accreted into interest income when there is a significant increase in the expected cash flows. As a result of improvements in the estimated cash flows of securities previously identified as other-than-temporarily impaired, the net accretion of income is likely to continue to be a positive source of net interest income in future periods.
Member demand for wholesale funding from the Bank can vary greatly depending on a number of factors, including economic and market conditions, competition from other wholesale funding sources, member deposit inflows and outflows, the activity level of the primary and secondary mortgage markets, and strategic decisions made by individual member institutions. As a result, Bank asset levels and operating results may vary significantly from period to period.

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Other Income/(Loss). The following table presents the components of “Other Income/(Loss)” for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019.

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Other Income/(Loss)
    
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
(In millions)March 31, 2019
 March 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
Other Income/(Loss):      
Total OTTI loss$(1) $(3)
Net amount of OTTI loss reclassified to/(from) AOCI
 2
Net OTTI loss, credit-related(1) (1)
Net gain/(loss) on trading securities(1)
(1) (1)$73
 $(1)
Net gain/(loss) on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under fair value option39
 (41)89
 39
Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities(2)
(28) 31
Other6
 4
Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities(147) (28)
Other, net3
 5
Total Other Income/(Loss)$15
 $(8)$18
 $15
(1)The net gain/(loss) on trading securities that were economically hedged totaled $73 and a de minimis amountsamount for the three months ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, and 2018.respectively.
(2)Upon adoption of new hedge accounting guidance applied prospectively on January 1, 2019, amounts reported for 2019 exclude the realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on hedged items and derivatives in qualifying hedge relationships.
Net Other-Than-Temporary Impairment (OTTI) Loss, Credit-Related – Each quarter, the Bank updates its OTTI analysis to reflect current and anticipated housing market conditions, observed and anticipated borrower behavior, and updated information on the loans supporting the Bank’s PLRMBS.
Additional information about the OTTI loss is provided in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Investments” and in “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis.”
Net Gain/(Loss) on Advances and Consolidated Obligation Bonds Held Under Fair Value Option – The following table presents the net gain/(loss) recognized in earnings on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under the fair value option for the three months ended March 31, 20192020 and 2018.2019.
Net Gain/(Loss) on Advances and Consolidated Obligation Bonds Held Under Fair Value Option
Net Gain/(Loss) on Advances and Consolidated Obligations Bonds Held Under Fair Value OptionNet Gain/(Loss) on Advances and Consolidated Obligations Bonds Held Under Fair Value Option
      
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
(In millions)March 31, 2019
 March 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 March 31, 2019
Advances$46
 $(49)$91
 $46
Consolidated obligation bonds(7) 8
(2) (7)
Total$39
 $(41)$89
 $39
Under the fair value option, the Bank elected to carry certain assets and liabilities at fair value. In general, transactions elected for the fair value option are in economic hedge relationships. Gains or losses on these transactions are generally offset by losses or gains on the derivatives that economically hedge these instruments.
The net gains/(losses) on advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under the fair value option were primarily driven by the effects of changes in market interest rates, interest rate spreads, interest rate volatility, and other market factors relative to the actual terms on the advances and consolidated obligation bonds during the period.
Additional information about advances and consolidated obligation bonds held under the fair value option is provided in “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1612 – Fair Value.”
Net Gain/(Loss) on Derivatives and Hedging Activities – PriorUnder the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities, the Bank is required to January 1, 2019, forcarry all of its derivative instruments on the Statements of Condition at fair value. If derivatives meet the hedging criteria, including effectiveness measures, the carrying value hedges,of the amount by which the changeunderlying hedged instruments may also be adjusted to reflect changes in the fair value attributable to the risk being hedged so that some or all of the unrealized gain or loss recognized on the derivative differed fromis offset by a corresponding unrealized gain or loss on the change in theunderlying hedged instrument. In addition, certain derivatives are associated with assets or liabilities but do not qualify as fair value ofhedges under the hedged item was recorded in other income as “Net gain/(loss) on derivativesaccounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities.” The following table shows These economic hedges are recorded on the Statements of Condition at fair value with the unrealized gain or loss recorded in earnings without any offsetting unrealized gain or loss from the associated asset or liability.

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The following table shows the accounting classification of hedges and the categories of hedged items that contributed to the gains and losses on derivatives and hedged items that were recorded in “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities” in the first quarter of 20192020 and 2018.2019.
Sources of Gains/(Losses) Recorded in Net Gain/(Loss) on Derivatives and Hedging Activities
Three Months Ended March 31, 2019, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Sources of Gains/(Losses) Recorded in Net Gain/(Loss) on Derivatives and Hedging Activities
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
Sources of Gains/(Losses) Recorded in Net Gain/(Loss) on Derivatives and Hedging Activities
Three Months Ended March 31, 2020, Compared to Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
                        
Three Months EndedThree Months Ended
(In millions)
March 31, 2019(1)
 March 31, 2018March 31, 2020 March 31, 2019
Gain/(Loss) on
 
Income/
(Expense) on

   Gain/(Loss) 
Income/
(Expense) on

  
Hedged Item
Economic
Hedges

 
Economic
Hedges

 Total
 
Fair Value
Hedges, Net

 
Economic
Hedges

 
Economic
Hedges

 Total
Gain/(Loss) on
Economic
Hedges

 
Income/
(Expense) on
Economic
Hedges

 Total
 
Gain/(Loss) on
Economic
Hedges

 
Income/
(Expense) on
Economic
Hedges

 Total
Advances:                        
Elected for fair value option$(41) $8
 $(33) $
 $54
 $(1) $53
$(109) $(2) $(111) $(41) $8
 $(33)
Not elected for fair value option11
 (3) 8
 2
 (10) 1
 (7)9
 (11) (2) 11
 (3) 8
Consolidated obligation bonds:            

      
 
  
Elected for fair value option6
 (2) 4
 
 (8) 
 (8)2
 
 2
 6
 (2) 4
Not elected for fair value option23
 (8) 15
 
 (41) 3
 (38)18
 
 18
 23
 (8) 15
Consolidated obligation discount notes:            

           
Not elected for fair value option(23) 
 (23) 
 29
 (3) 26
13
 9
 22
 (23) 
 (23)
MBS:            

Not elected for fair value option
 
 
 
 1
 
 1
Non-MBS investments:            

           
Not elected for fair value option
 
 
 
 1
 
 1
(76) (4) (80) 
 
 
Mortgage delivery commitment:                        
Not elected for fair value option1
 
 1
 
 4
 
 4
4
 
 4
 1
 
 1
Price alignment amount(2)

 
 
 
 (1) 
 (1)
Total$(23) $(5) $(28) $2
 $29
 $
 $31
$(139) $(8) $(147) $(23) $(5) $(28)
(1)Upon adoption of new hedge accounting guidance applied prospectively on January 1, 2019, amounts reported for 2019 exclude the realized and unrealized gain/(loss) on hedged items and derivatives in qualifying hedge relationships.
(2)This amount is for derivatives for which variation margin on cleared derivatives is characterized as a daily settled contract.
During the first quarter of 2019,2020, net losses on derivatives and hedging activities totaled $28$147 million compared to net gainslosses of $31$28 million in the first quarter of 2018.2019. These amounts included expense of $5$8 million and expense of a de minimis amount$5 million resulting from net settlements on derivative instruments used in economic hedges in the first quarter of 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively. Excluding the impact of income or expense from net settlements on derivative instruments used in economic hedges, the net gains or losses on fair value and economic hedges were primarily associated with the effects of changes in market interest rates, interest rate spreads, interest rate volatility, and other market factors during the period.
The ongoing impact of these valuation adjustments on the Bank cannot be predicted and the effects of these valuation adjustments may lead to significant volatility in future earnings, including earnings available for dividends.
Additional information about derivatives and hedging activities is provided in “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1511 – Derivatives and Hedging Activities.”
Other Expense. During the first quarter of 2019,2020, other expenses totaled $43$36 million, compared to $49$43 million in the first quarter of 2018,2019, primarily reflecting the decrease in voluntary charitable contributions made during the first quarter of 2018.contributions.

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Quality Jobs Fund Expense and Other During the first quarter of 2019, and 2018, the Bank made a voluntary charitable contributionscontribution of $5 million and $10 million, respectively, for the Quality Jobs Fund as well as a voluntary contributionscontribution of $1 million and $1 million, respectively, to the Affordable Housing Program (AHP)AHP to offset the impact on the AHP assessment of the charitable contribution expense. The Bank did not make any charitable contributions in the first quarter of 2020.

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Return on Average Equity
Return on average equity was (0.46)% (annualized) for the first quarter of 2020, compared to 6.34% (annualized) for the first quarter of 2019, compared to 4.74% (annualized)2019. The decrease primarily reflected lower net income/(loss) for the first quarter of 2018. The increase primarily reflected higher2020, which decreased from net income for the first quarter of 2019, which increased 28%, from $81 million in the first quarter of 2018 to $104 million in the first quarter of 2019.2019 to a net loss of $8 million in the first quarter of 2020.
Dividends and Retained Earnings
In the first quarter of 2020, the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $54 million, including $52 million in dividends on capital stock and $2 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. In the first quarter of 2019, the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $54 million, including $50 million in dividends on capital stock and $4 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. In the first quarter of 2018, the Bank paid dividends at an annualized rate of 7.00%, totaling $59 million, including $53 million in dividends on capital stock and $6 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock.
The Bank paid these dividends in cash. Dividends on capital stock are recognized as dividends on the Statements of Capital Accounts, and dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock are recognized as interest expense on the Statements of Income.
On April 25, 2019,27, 2020, the Bank’s Board of Directors declared a cash dividend on the capital stock outstanding during the first quarter of 20192020 at an annualized rate of 7.00%5.00%, totaling $56$39 million, including $52$37 million in dividends on capital stock and $4$2 million in dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock. The Bank recorded the dividend on April 25, 2019.27, 2020. The Bank expects to pay the dividend on May 14, 2019.2020. Dividends on mandatorily redeemable capital stock will be recognized as interest expense in the second quarter of 2019.2020.
The Bank’s Excess Stock Repurchase, Retained Earnings, and Dividend Framework (Framework) assesses the level and adequacy of retained earnings and establishes amounts to be retained in restricted retained earnings, which are not made available in the current dividend period, and maintains an amount of total retained earnings at least equal to its required retained earnings as described in the Framework. As determined using the Bank’s methodology, the required level of total retained earnings iswas $2.5 billion from January 2018 through July 2019. In July 2019, the methodology was further revised and resulted in a required level of retained earnings of $2.4 billion. In January 2020, the methodology was further revised and resulted in a required level of retained earnings of $2.5 billion. The Bank satisfies its retained earnings requirement with both restricted retained earnings (i.e., amounts related to the Joint Capital Enhancement Agreement) and unrestricted retained earnings. The Bank’s retained earnings requirement may be changed at any time. The Board of Directors periodically reviews the retained earnings methodology and analysis to determine whether any adjustments are appropriate. Total restricted retained earnings were $668 million and $647was $713 million as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018, respectively.2019.
The Bank will continue to monitor the condition of its balance sheet, its financial performance, its capital position, overall financial market conditions, and other relevant information as the basis for determining the payment of dividends in future quarters. On March 16, 2020, in light of market volatility, the Finance Agency extended the Bank’s ability to enter into LIBOR-indexed instruments that mature after December 31, 2021, from March 31, 2020, to June 30, 2020.
For more information, see “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 139 – Capital” in this report and see “Item 1. Business – Dividends and Retained Earnings,” “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Liquidity Risk,” and “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 15 – Capital – Excess Stock Repurchase, Retained Earnings, and Dividend Framework” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10‑K.
Financial Condition
Total assets were $110.6$124.9 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, compared to $109.3$106.8 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. Advances decreasedincreased by $3.1$12.5 billion, or 4%19%, to $70.3$77.9 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $73.4$65.4 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. MBS investments increaseddecreased by $0.9$0.1 billion, or 5%1%, to $18.8$17.7 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $17.9$17.8 billion at

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December 31, 2018.2019. Average total assets were $110.7 billion for the first quarter of 2020, a 3% decrease compared to $113.8 billion for the first quarter of 2019, an 11% decrease compared to $128.12019. Average advances were $67.0 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Average advances were2020, an 11% decrease from $75.4 billion for the first quarter of 2019, a 15% decrease from $89.12019. Average MBS investments were $17.3 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Average MBS investments were2020, a 1% decrease from $17.5 billion for the first quarter of 2019, a 2% increase from $17.1 billion for the first quarter of 2018.2019.
Advances outstanding at March 31, 2019,2020, included unrealized gains of $87$984 million, of which $71$812 million represented unrealized gains on advances hedged in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities and $16$172 million represented unrealized gains on economically hedged advances that are carried at fair value in accordance with the fair value option. Advances outstanding at December 31, 2018,2019, included unrealized lossesgains of $61$286 million, of which $32$203 million represented unrealized losses on advances hedged in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities and $29$83 million represented unrealized losses on economically hedged advances that are carried at fair value in accordance with the fair value option. The overall increasechange in the unrealized gains on the hedged advances and advances carried at fair value from December 31, 2018,2019, to March 31, 2019,2020, was primarily attributable to the effects of changes in market interest rates, interest rate spreads, interest rate volatility, and other market factors relative to the terms on the Bank’s advances during the period.
Total liabilities were $103.9$118.5 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, an increase of $1.1$18.4 billion from $102.8$100.1 billion at December 31, 2018,2019, primarily reflecting a $0.9an $18.3 billion increase in consolidated obligations outstanding to $102.4$117.0 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $101.5$98.7 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. Average total liabilities were $104.0 billion for the first quarter of 2020, a 3% decrease compared to $107.1 billion for the first quarter of 2019, a 12% decrease compared to $121.22019. Average consolidated obligations were $102.3 billion for the first quarter of 2018. Average consolidated obligations were2020 and $105.6 billion for the first quarter of 2019 and $119.9 billion for the first quarter of 2018.2019.
Consolidated obligations outstanding at March 31, 2019,2020, included unrealized gainslosses of $20$32 million on consolidated obligation bonds hedged in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities and unrealized gainslosses of $3$4 million on economically hedged consolidated obligation bonds that are carried at fair value in accordance with the fair value option. Consolidated obligations outstanding at December 31, 2018,2019, included unrealized gainslosses of $48$9 million on consolidated obligation bonds hedged in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities and unrealized gainslosses of $5$2 million on economically hedged consolidated obligation bonds that are carried at fair value in accordance with the fair value option. The decreasechange in the net unrealized gainslosses on the hedged consolidated obligation bonds and on the consolidated obligation bonds carried at fair value from December 31, 2018,2019, to March 31, 2019,2020, were primarily attributable to the effects of changes in market interest rates, interest rate spreads, interest rate volatility, and other market factors relative to the actual terms on the Bank’s consolidated obligation bonds during the period.
As provided by the FHLBank Act or regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks, all FHLBanks have joint and several liability for all FHLBank consolidated obligations. The joint and several liability regulation authorizes the Finance Agency to require any FHLBank to repay all or a portion of the principal or interest on consolidated obligations for which another FHLBank is the primary obligor. The Bank has never been asked or required to repay the principal or interest on any consolidated obligation on behalf of another FHLBank, and as of March 31, 2019,2020, and through the filing date of this report, does not believe that it is probable that it will be asked to do so. The par value of the outstanding consolidated obligations of the FHLBanks was $1,010.9$1,174.7 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, and $1,031.6$1,025.9 billion at December 31, 2018.2019.
Changes in the long-term credit ratings of individual FHLBanks do not necessarily affect the credit rating of the consolidated obligations issued on behalf of the FHLBanks. Rating agencies may change or withdraw a rating from time to time because of various factors, including operating results or actions taken, business developments, or changes in their opinion regarding, among other factors, the general outlook for a particular industry or the economy.
The Bank does not believe, as of the date of this report, that it is probable that the Bank will be required to repay any principal or interest associated with consolidated obligations for which the Bank is not the primary obligor.

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Certain Bank assets, liabilities, and derivatives are indexed to LIBOR. The Bank recognizes that the impending discontinuation of LIBOR presents risks and challenges that could have an impact on the Bank’s business. For information about the risks to the Bank from discontinuation of LIBOR, see “Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K. Accordingly, the Bank has established the LIBOR Transition Working Group, led by the Chief Financial Officer, and developed a LIBOR Phase Out Transition Plan (Transition Plan). Among other things, the Transition Plan addresses three key strategies to mitigate the risks to the Bank associated with the discontinuation of LIBOR: (i) execute hedging strategies that permit alternative reference rates, including the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), (ii) transact SOFR-indexed advances and bonds, and (iii) where practicable, implement improved fallback provisions for the discontinuation of LIBOR in new and legacy contracts. In addition, the Transition Plan limits new LIBOR transactions with maturities beyond the end of 2021 consistent with the limits set by the Finance Agency’s Supervisory Letter issued on September 27, 2019. The Transition Plan states that the Bank’s Asset and Liability Management Committee has primary responsibility for driving the transition from LIBOR to SOFR and that the Bank’s Business Development Committee is responsible for advance product development to facilitate our members’ transition from LIBOR to an alternative index.
The tables below present LIBOR-indexed variable rate financial instruments by due date or termination date at March 31, 2020.
LIBOR-Indexed Financial Instruments
        
March 31, 2020       
(In millions)2020
 2021
 2022 and Thereafter
 Total
Assets indexed to LIBOR:       
Par value of advances by redemption term$10,500
 $10,750
 $260
 $21,510
Unpaid principal balance of investment securities by contractual maturity       
MBS(1)

 
 6,970
 6,970
Notional amount of receive leg LIBOR interest rate swaps by termination date       
Cleared12,163
 6,023
 2,776
 20,962
Uncleared224
 317
 938
 1,479
Total$22,887
 $17,090
 $10,944
 $50,921
        
Liabilities indexed to LIBOR:       
Par value of consolidated obligation bonds by contractual maturity$22,130
 $5,098
 $
 $27,228
Notional amount of pay leg LIBOR interest rate swaps by termination date       
Cleared17,438
 5,330
 423
 23,191
Uncleared420
 352
 200
 972
Total$39,988
 $10,780
 $623
 $51,391
(1)
Certain MBS with multiple indices where LIBOR is the majority index are included in this amount.
Interest rate caps and floors indexed to LIBOR totaling $430 million terminate in 2021 and totaling $550 million terminate in 2022 and thereafter.
Market activity in SOFR-indexed financial instruments continues to increase. In total, the Bank has issued $57.1 billion in SOFR-indexed consolidated obligation bonds. The table below presents the par value of variable rate consolidated obligation bonds by interest rate index.

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Variable Rate Consolidated Obligation Bonds by Interest Rate Index
  
(In millions) 
March 31, 2020 
Interest Rate IndexAmount Outstanding
LIBOR$27,228
SOFR42,971
Total par value(1)
$70,199
(1)
Total variable rate consolidated obligation bonds include adjustable rate bonds and range bonds with coupons at variable rates.
For more information on LIBOR-indexed advances, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Financial Condition.” For more information on LIBOR-indexed investments and derivatives, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Risk Management.”
Segment Information
The Bank uses an analysis of financial results based on the financial components and adjusted net interest income of two operating segments, the advances-related business and the mortgage-related business, as well as other financial information, to review and assess financial performance and determine financial management strategies related to the operations of these two business segments. For purposes of segment reporting, adjusted net interest income includes income and expense associated with net settlements from economic hedges that are recorded in “Net gain/(loss) on derivatives and hedging activities” in other income, excludes interest income and expense associated with changes in fair value of the derivative hedging instrument and the hedged item attributable to the hedged risk for designated fair value hedges that are recorded in net interest income, and excludes interest expense that is recorded in “Mandatorily redeemable capital stock.” Other key financial information, such as any credit-related OTTI losses on the Bank’s PLRMBS, other expenses, and assessments, is not included in the segment reporting analysis, but is incorporated into the Bank’s overall assessment of financial performance. For a reconciliation of the Bank’s operating segment adjusted net interest income to the Bank’s total net interest income, see “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1410 – Segment Information.”
Advances-Related Business. The advances-related business consists of advances and other credit products, related financing and hedging instruments, liquidity and other non-MBS investments associated with the Bank’s role as a liquidity provider, and capital. Assets associated with this segment increased $0.3$18.2 billion to $88.6$103.9 billion (83% of total assets) at March 31, 2020, from $85.7 billion (80% of total assets) at March 31, 2019, from $88.3 billion (81% of total assets) at December 31, 2018.2019.
Adjusted net interest income for this segment is derived primarily from the difference, or spread, between the yield on advances and non-MBS investments and the cost of the consolidated obligations funding these assets, including the net settlements from associated interest rate exchange agreements, and from earnings attributed to the Bank’s capital stock and retained earnings.
Adjusted net interest income for this segment was $63 million in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of $23 million, or 27%, compared to $86 million in the first quarter of 2019, an increase of $8 million, or 10%, compared to $78 million in the first quarter of 2018. The increase2019. This decrease was primarily due to an improvementa decline in spreads onin advances-related assets partially offset bydue to lower advances balances.rates.
Adjusted net interest income for this segment represented 56%84% and 51%56% of total adjusted net interest income for the first quarter of 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively.
Advances – The par value of advances outstanding decreasedincreased by $3.3$11.8 billion, or 4%18%, to $70.2$76.9 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $73.5$65.1 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. Average advances outstanding were $75.4$67.0 billion infor the first quarter of 2019, a 15%2020, an 11% decrease from $89.1$75.4 billion infor the first quarter of 2018.2019. Outstanding balances of advances may significantly increase and decrease from period to period because of a member’s liquidity and financial strategies.

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As of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018,2020, advances outstanding to the Bank’s top five borrowers and their affiliates were $45.8 billion. Advancesincreased by $3.2 billion, and advances outstanding to the Bank’s other borrowers decreasedincreased by $3.3$8.6 billion. Advances to the top five borrowers increased to $47.4 billion at March 31, 2020, from $44.2 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. (See “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 74 – Advances – Credit and Concentration Risk” for further information.)
The Bank has a significant long-term funding arrangement with a memberone of the top five borrowers that contributes to the level of outstanding advances, and prepayments or repayments of advances or any changes to this arrangement could have a significant adverse impact on the Bank’s level of advances. Any prepayments or termination of this arrangement may result in prepayment fees or a termination fee. It is possible that our advances may increase or decrease to the extent our members elect to use alternative funding resources.
The $3.3$11.8 billion decreaseincrease in advances outstanding primarily reflected a $2.9$13.4 billion decreaseincrease in fixed rate advances and a $1.2$0.4 billion decreaseincrease in variableadjustable rate advances, partially offset by a $0.8$2.0 billion increasedecrease in adjustablevariable rate advances. In 2019, the Bank began to offer SOFR-indexed advances to its members.
The components of the advances portfolio at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, are presented in the following table.

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Advances Portfolio by Product Type
              
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
(Dollar in millions)Par Value
 Percentage of Total Par Value
 Par Value
 Percentage of Total Par Value
Par Value
 Percentage of Total Par Value
 Par Value
 Percentage of Total Par Value
Adjustable – London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR)$14,640
 21% $13,532
 18%
Adjustable – LIBOR$11,450
 15% $8,260
 13%
Adjustable – LIBOR, callable at borrower’s option12,150
 17
 12,500
 17
9,950
 13
 13,950
 21
Adjustable – LIBOR, with caps and/or floors and PPS(1)
83
 
 83
 
Adjustable – SOFR5
 
 5
 
Adjustable – SOFR, callable at borrower’s option1,400
 2
 
 
Adjustable – other indices500
 1
 700
 1
Subtotal adjustable rate advances26,873
 38
 26,115
 35
23,305
 31
 22,915
 35
Fixed27,703
 40
 31,462
 43
22,806
 29
 18,784
 29
Fixed – amortizing259
 
 218
 
226
 1
 234
 1
Fixed – with PPS(1)
3,697
 5
 3,819
 5
3,237
 4
 3,283
 5
Fixed – with FPS(1)
4,338
 6
 3,405
 5
23,430
 30
 14,059
 22
Fixed – with caps and PPS(1)
485
 1
 485
 1
110
 
 210
 
Fixed – callable at borrower’s option750
 1
 752
 1
74
 
 74
 
Fixed – callable at borrower’s option with PPS(1)
2
 
 3
 
20
 
 
 
Fixed – putable at Bank’s option200
 
 
 
Fixed – putable at Bank’s option with PPS(1)
20
 
 20
 
20
 
 20
 
Subtotal fixed rate advances37,254
 53
 40,164
 55
50,123
 64
 36,664
 57
Daily variable rate6,048
 9
 7,216
 10
3,460
 5
 5,509
 8
Total par value$70,175
 100% $73,495
 100%$76,888
 100% $65,088
 100%
(1)Partial prepayment symmetry (PPS) and full prepayment symmetry (FPS) are product features under which the Bank may charge the borrower a prepayment fee or pay the borrower a prepayment credit, depending on certain circumstances, such as movements in interest rates, when the advance is prepaid. Any prepayment credit on an advance with PPS would be limited to the lesser of 10% of the par value of the advance or the gain recognized on the termination of the associated interest rate swap, which may also include a similar contractual gain limitation.
The table below presents the par value of LIBOR-indexed advances by redemption term at March 31, 2020.
LIBOR-Indexed Advances by Redemption Term
  
(In millions) 
March 31, 2020 
Redemption TermPar Value
Due in 2020$10,500
Due in 202110,750
Due in 2022 and thereafter(1)
260
Total LIBOR-Indexed Advances(2)
$21,510
(1)For more information on the Bank’s Transition Plan, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition.”
(2)Total LIBOR-indexed advances include fixed rate advances with caps and PPS.
For a discussion of advances credit risk, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Credit Risk – Advances.”
Non-MBS Investments The Bank’s non-MBS investment portfolio consists of financial instruments that are used primarily to facilitate the Bank’s role as a cost-effective provider of credit and liquidity to members and to support the operations of the Bank. The Bank’s total non-MBS investment portfolio was $17.7$25.3 billion and $14.5$19.9 billion as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively. The increase in the total size of the non-MBS investment

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portfolio reflects higher balancesthe increased overnight liquidity investments and additional purchases of Federal funds sold and securities purchased under agreementsU.S. Treasury bonds to resell.increase resiliency to adverse liquidity conditions.
Interest rate payment terms for non-MBS investments classified as held-to-maturity (HTM)trading and AFS at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, are detailed in the following table:
Non-MBS Investments: Interest Rate Payment Terms
    
(In millions)March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Amortized cost of HTM securities other than MBS:   
Adjustable rate$63

$100
Total$63

$100
Non-MBS Investments: Interest Rate Payment Terms
    
(In millions)March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Fair value of trading securities:   
Fixed rate$4,315
 $1,762
Total trading securities$4,315
 $1,762
Amortized cost of AFS securities:   
Fixed rate$5,347
 $5,281
Total AFS securities$5,347
 $5,281
Borrowings – Total liabilities (primarily consolidated obligations) funding the advances-related business increased to $81.9$97.5 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $81.7$79.0 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. For further information and discussion of the Bank’s joint and several liability for FHLBank consolidated obligations, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations Financial Condition” and “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1713 – Commitments and Contingencies.”

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To meet the specific needs of certain investors, fixed and adjustable rate consolidated obligation bonds may contain embedded call options or other features that result in complex coupon payment terms. When these consolidated obligation bonds are issued on behalf of the Bank, typically the Bank simultaneously enters into interest rate exchange agreements with features that offset the complex features of the bonds and, in effect, convert the bonds to adjustable rate instruments. For example, the Bank uses fixed rate callable bonds that are typically offset with interest rate exchange agreements with call features that offset the call options embedded in the callable bonds. This combined financing structure enables the Bank to meet its funding needs at costs not generally attainable solely through the issuance of comparable term non-callable debt.
At March 31, 2020, the notional amount of interest rate exchange agreements associated with the advances-related business totaled $104.1 billion, of which $49.0 billion were hedging advances, $42.9 billion were hedging consolidated obligations, $9.4 billion were economically hedging non-MBS investments, and $2.8 billion were offsetting derivatives. At December 31, 2019, the notional amount of interest rate exchange agreements associated with the advances-related business totaled $82.9$84.4 billion, of which $35.6$41.2 billion were hedging advances, $46.8$36.2 billion were hedging consolidated obligations, and $0.5$7.0 billion were economically hedging trading securities. At December 31, 2018, the notional amount of interest rate exchange agreements associated with the advances-related business totaled $89.4 billion, of which $39.3 billionsecurities, and $40 million were hedging advances, $49.6 billion were hedging consolidated obligations, and $0.5 billion were economically hedging trading securities.offsetting derivatives. The hedges associated with advances and consolidated obligations were primarily used to convert the fixed rate cash flows of the advances and consolidated obligations to adjustable rate cash flows or to manage the interest rate sensitivity and net repricing gaps of assets, liabilities, and interest rate exchange agreements.
FHLBank System consolidated obligation bonds and discount notes, along with similar debt securities issued by other GSEs such as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, are generally referred to as agency debt. The costs of debt issued by the FHLBanks and the other GSEs generally rise and fall with increases and decreases in general market interest rates.
In early March 2020, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) stated that the COVID-19 outbreak poses evolving risks to economic activity and decided to lower the target range for the Federal funds rate by 50 basis points, to a target range of 1.00% to 1.25%, noting that it would closely monitor developments and their implications for the economic outlook and would act as appropriate to support the economy. On March 15, 2020, the FOMC again lowered the Federal funds rate, to a target range of 0.00% to 0.25%, noting that the COVID-19 outbreak had harmed communities and disrupted economic activity in many countries, including the United States, and had significantly affected global financial conditions. In the weeks before and after the early March cut by the

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FOMC in the Federal funds target rate, interest rates declined significantly. Generally, investor demand for high credit quality, fixed income investments, including the Bank’s consolidated obligations, increased relative to other investments, and the Bank continued to meet its funding needs during this time. However, the spreads on the Bank’s consolidated obligations relative to U.S. Treasury securities widened and fixed income market conditions became more challenging, with market participants favoring shorter-term obligations. During March 2020, the Bank experienced increased demand for advances and maintained its liquidity investments in compliance with Finance Agency guidance. See “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for additional information on potential risks to the Bank, including from pandemics such as COVID-19. The following table presents a comparison of selected market interest rates as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018. The Federal Reserve target rate for overnight Federal funds has not changed since the prior yearend. As of March 31, 2019, rates on the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, 3-month LIBOR, 2-year U.S. Treasury notes, and 5-year U.S. Treasury notes declined, while the rate on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills increased compared with the prior yearend.
2019.
Selected Market Interest RatesSelected Market Interest RatesSelected Market Interest Rates 
  
Market InstrumentMarch 31, 2019 December 31, 2018 March 31, 2018 December 31, 2017March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019 March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018 
Federal Reserve target range for overnight Federal funds2.25-2.50% 2.25-2.50% 1.50-1.75% 1.25-1.50%0.00-0.25% 1.50-1.75% 2.25-2.50% 2.25-2.50% 
Secured Overnight Financing Rate2.65 3.00 N/A N/A 0.01 1.55 2.65 3.00 
3-month Treasury bill2.39 2.36 1.71 1.36 0.09 1.55 2.39 2.36 
3-month LIBOR2.60 2.81 2.31 1.69 1.45 1.91 2.60 2.81 
2-year Treasury note2.26 2.49 2.27 1.89 0.25 1.57 2.26 2.49 
5-year Treasury note2.23 2.51 2.56 2.21 0.38 1.69 2.23 2.51 
Mortgage-Related Business. The mortgage-related business consists of MBS investments, mortgage loans acquired through the Mortgage Partnership Finance® (MPF®) Program, and the related financing and hedging instruments. (“Mortgage Partnership Finance,” “MPF,” and “MPF Xtra” are registered trademarks of the FHLBank of Chicago.) Adjusted net interest income for this segment is derived primarily from the difference, or spread, between the yield on the MBS investments and mortgage loans and the cost of the consolidated obligations funding those assets, including the net settlements from associated interest rate exchange agreements.
At March 31, 2019, assetsAssets associated with this segment were $22.0$21.0 billion (20%(17% of total assets), an increase of $0.9 billion from at March 31, 2020, and $21.1 billion at December 31, 2018 (19%2019 (20% of total assets).
Adjusted net interest income for this segment was $12 million in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of $56 million, or 82%, from $68 million in the first quarter of 2019, a decrease of $7 million, or 9%, from $75 million in the first quarter of 2018.2019. The decrease in adjusted net interest income was due to lower

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spreads on mortgage-related assets, primarily caused by lower spreads on new MBS investments, higher premium amortization expense, and lower accretion-related income,balances of MBS investments, which more than offset the impact of higher average balances of MBS investments and mortgage loans.accretion-related income. Additionally, the Bank recorded a $39 million provision for credit losses on the Bank’s PLRMBS investments.
Adjusted net interest income for this segment represented 44%16% and 49%44% of total adjusted net interest income for the first quarter of 20192020 and 2018,2019, respectively.
MBS Investments – The Bank’s MBS portfolio was $18.8$17.7 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, compared with $17.9$17.8 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. During the first quarter of 2019,2020, the Bank’s MBS portfolio increased primarily becausedecreased slightly with $0.8 billion in principal repayments and $0.5 billion of $1.1fair value losses, offset by a $0.8 billion increase in basis adjustments and $0.4 billion in new agency MBS investment purchases and an increase in forward settling MBS of $0.3 billion, partially offset by $0.8 billion in principal repayments.purchases. Average MBS investments were $17.5$17.3 billion infor the first quarter of 2019, an increase of $0.42020, a 1% decrease from $17.5 billion from $17.1 billion infor the first quarter of 2018.2019. For a discussion of the composition of the Bank’s MBS portfolio, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Investments.”
Interest rate payment terms for MBS investments classified as trading, AFS, and HTM at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, are shown in the following table:

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MBS Investments: Interest Rate Payment Terms
      
(In millions)March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Fair value of trading securities:      
Adjustable rate$5
 $5
$4
 $4
Total trading securities$5
 $5
$4
 $4
Amortized cost of AFS securities:      
Fixed rate$6,054
 $4,506
$9,387
 $8,156
Adjustable rate2,075
 2,170
1,693
 1,769
Total AFS securities$8,129
 $6,676
$11,080
 $9,925
Amortized cost of HTM securities:      
Fixed rate$2,776
 $2,950
$1,869
 $2,082
Adjustable rate7,547
 8,042
4,996
 5,464
Total HTM securities$10,323
 $10,992
$6,865
 $7,546
MPF Program – Under the MPF Program, the Bank may purchase from members, for its own portfolio, conventional conforming fixed rate mortgage loans under the MPF Original product and mortgage loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) or guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) under the MPF Government product. In addition, the Bank may facilitate the purchase of conforming fixed rate mortgage loans from members for concurrent sale to Fannie Mae under the MPF Xtra product; of jumbo fixed rate mortgage loans for concurrent sale to Redwood Residential Acquisition Corporation, a subsidiary of Redwood Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust, under the MPF Direct product; and of government-insured or government-guaranteed mortgage loans that will be packaged into securities backed by the mortgage loans and guaranteed by Ginnie Mae under the MPF Government MBS product. When members sell mortgage loans under the MPF Xtra, MPF Direct, and MPF Government MBS products, the loans are sold to a third-party investor and are not recorded on the Bank’s Statements of Condition.
As of March 31, 2019,2020, all mortgage loans purchased by the Bank under the MPF Program were qualifying conventional conforming fixed rate, first lien mortgage loans with fully amortizing loan terms of up to 30 years. A conventional loan is one that is not insured by the federal government or any of its agencies. Conforming loan size, which is established annually as required by Finance Agency regulations, may not exceed the loan limits set by the Finance Agency each year. All MPF loans are secured by owner-occupied, one- to four-unit residential properties or single-unit second homes. The Bank purchased $174$278 million in eligible loans under the MPF Original product during 2019.

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2020.
Mortgage loan balances increaseddecreased to $3.2 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $3.1$3.3 billion at December 31, 2018, an increase2019, a decrease of $0.1 billion. Average mortgage loans were $3.3 billion in the first quarter of 2020, an increase of $0.2 billion from $3.1 billion in the first quarter of 2019, an increase of $0.9 billion from $2.2 billion in the first quarter of 2018.2019.
At March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, the Bank held conventional conforming fixed rate mortgage loans purchased under one of two MPF products, MPF Plus or MPF Original, which are described in greater detail in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Credit Risk – MPF Program” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K. Mortgage loan balances at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, were as follows:

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Mortgage Loan Balances by MPF Product Type
      
(In millions)March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
MPF Plus$205
 $213
$168
 $177
MPF Original2,856
 2,754
3,011
 3,049
Subtotal3,061
 2,967
3,179
 3,226
Unamortized premiums103
 104
66
 91
Unamortized discounts(4) (5)(3) (3)
Mortgage loans held for portfolio3,160
 3,066
3,242
 3,314
Less: Allowance for credit losses
 
(3) 
Mortgage loans held for portfolio, net$3,160
 $3,066
$3,239
 $3,314
The Bank performs periodic reviews of its mortgage loan portfolio to identify probable credit losses in the portfolio and to determine the likelihood of collection on the loans in the portfolio. For more information on the Bank’s mortgage loan portfolio, see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Credit Risk – MPF Program” and “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates – Allowance for Credit Losses – Mortgage Loans Acquired Under the MPF Program” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10‑K.10-K.
Borrowings – Total consolidated obligations funding the mortgage-related business increased $0.9decreased $0.1 billion to $22.0$21.0 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, from $21.1 billion at December 31, 2018,2019, paralleling the increasedecrease in MBS investments. For further information and discussion of the Bank’s joint and several liability for FHLBank consolidated obligations, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition” and “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1713 – Commitments and Contingencies.”
The notional amount of interest rate exchange agreementsderivative instruments associated with the mortgage-related business totaled $13.2$14.8 billion at March 31, 2020, of which $8.5 billion were associated with MBS, $5.8 billion were hedging or were associated with consolidated obligations funding the mortgage portfolio, $0.4 billion were offsetting derivatives, and $0.1 billion were associated with mortgage delivery commitments. The notional amount of derivative instruments associated with the mortgage-related business totaled $16.6 billion at December 31, 2019, of which $7.0$8.5 billion were hedging or were associated with consolidated obligations funding the mortgage portfolio and $6.2 billion were associated with MBS. The notional amount of interest rate exchange agreements associated with the mortgage-related business totaled $12.1 billion at December 31, 2018, of which $6.9 billion were hedging or were associated with consolidated obligations funding the mortgage portfolio and $5.2$8.1 billion were associated with MBS.
For information on the Bank’s management of interest rate risk and market risk related to the mortgage-related business segment, see “Item 3. Quantitative“Management’s Discussion and Qualitative Disclosures AboutAnalysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations –Risk Management – Market Risk.”

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Interest Rate Exchange Agreements
A derivative transaction or interest rate exchange agreement is a financial contract whose fair value is generally derived from changes in the value of an underlying asset or liability. The Bank uses interest rate swaps; interest rate cap and floor agreements; and callable and putable interest rate swaps (collectively, interest rate exchange agreements) to manage its exposure to market risks inherent in its ordinary course of business, including its lending, investment, and funding activities. For more information on the Bank’s interest rate exchange agreements by type of hedged item, hedging instrument, associated hedging strategy, accounting designation as specified under the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities, and notional amount, and the primary strategies that the Bank employs for using interest rate exchange agreements and the associated market risks, see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Market Risk – Interest Rate Exchange Agreements” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
The following table summarizes the Bank’s interest rate exchange agreements by type of hedged item, hedging instrument, associated hedging strategy, accounting designation as specified under the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities, and notional amount as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.
Interest Rate Exchange Agreements
         
(In millions)     Notional Amount
Hedging Instrument Hedging Strategy Accounting Designation March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Hedged Item: Advances        
Pay fixed, receive adjustable interest rate swap Fixed rate advance converted to an adjustable rate Fair Value Hedge $27,233
 $30,045
Received fixed, pay adjustable interest rate swap Adjustable rate advance converted to a fixed rate 
Economic Hedge(1)
 2,255
 2,237
Pay fixed, receive adjustable interest rate swap Fixed rate advance converted to an adjustable rate 
Economic Hedge(1)
 1,068
 1,815
Pay fixed, receive adjustable interest rate swap; swap may be callable at the Bank’s option or putable at the counterparty’s option Fixed rate advance (with or without an embedded cap) converted to an adjustable rate; advance and swap may be callable or putable; matched to advance accounted for under the fair value option 
Economic Hedge(1)
 4,954
 5,079
Interest rate cap or floor Interest rate cap or floor embedded in an adjustable rate advance; matched to advance accounted for under the fair value option 
Economic Hedge(1)
 83
 83
Subtotal Economic Hedges(1)
     8,360
 9,214
Total     35,593
 39,259
Hedged Item: Non-Callable Bonds        
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap Fixed rate or structured rate non-callable bond converted to an adjustable rate Fair Value Hedge 3,924
 4,496
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap Fixed rate or structured rate non-callable bond converted to an adjustable rate 
Economic Hedge(1)
 2,206
 1,596
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap Fixed rate or structured rate non-callable bond converted to an adjustable rate; matched to non-callable bond accounted for under the fair value option 
Economic Hedge(1)
 185
 235
Basis swap Fixed rate or adjustable rate non-callable bond previously converted to an adjustable rate index, converted to another adjustable rate index to reduce interest rate sensitivity and repricing gaps 
Economic Hedge(1)
 15,560
 19,710
Subtotal Economic Hedges(1)
     17,951
 21,541
Total     21,875
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Interest Rate Exchange Agreements (continued)
         
(In millions)     Notional Amount
Hedging Instrument Hedging Strategy Accounting Designation March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
Hedged Item: Callable Bonds        
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap with an option to call at the counterparty’s option Fixed or structured rate callable bond converted to an adjustable rate; swap is callable Fair Value Hedge 2,212
 2,214
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap with an option to call at the counterparty’s option Fixed or structured rate callable bond converted to an adjustable rate; swap is callable 
Economic Hedge(1)
 4,867
 3,657
Receive fixed or structured, pay adjustable interest rate swap with an option to call at the counterparty’s option Fixed or structured rate callable bond converted to an adjustable rate; swap is callable; matched to callable bond accounted for under the fair value option 
Economic Hedge(1)
 1,008
 1,789
Subtotal Economic Hedges(1)
     5,875
 5,446
Total     8,087
 7,660
Hedged Item: Discount Notes        
Pay fixed, receive adjustable callable interest rate swap Discount note, which may have been previously converted to an adjustable rate, converted to fixed rate callable debt that offsets the prepayment risk of mortgage assets 
Economic Hedge(1)
 1,725
 1,725
Basis swap or receive fixed, pay adjustable interest rate swap Discount note converted to short-term adjustable rate to hedge repricing gaps 
Economic Hedge(1)
 21,063
 20,095
Pay fixed, receive adjustable non-callable interest rate swap Discount note, which may have been previously converted to an adjustable rate, converted to fixed rate non-callable debt that offsets the interest rate risk of mortgage assets 
Economic Hedge(1)
 1,060
 960
Total     23,848
 22,780
Hedged Item: Investment Securities      
Pay fixed, receive adjustable interest rate swap

 Fixed rate investment securities converted to an adjustable rate Fair Value Hedge 5,173
 3,749
Basis swap Basis swap hedging adjustable rate Federal Farm Credit Bank (FFCB) bonds 
Economic Hedge(1)
 500
 500
Interest rate cap Interest rate cap used to offset cap risk embedded in floating rate investment securities 
Economic Hedge(1)
 980
 1,480
Subtotal Economic Hedges(1)
     1,480
 1,980
Total     6,653
 5,729
Stand-Alone Derivatives        
Mortgage delivery commitments N/A N/A 33
 12
Total     33
 12
Total Notional Amount     $96,089
 $101,477

(1)Economic hedges are derivatives that are matched to balance sheet instruments or other derivatives that do not meet the requirements for hedge accounting under the accounting for derivative instruments and hedging activities.
The following tables categorize the notional amounts and estimated fair values of the Bank’s interest rate exchange agreements, unrealized gains and losses from the related hedged items, and estimated fair value gains and losses from financial instruments carried at fair value by type of accounting treatment and product as of March 31, 2019, and December 31, 2018.

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Interest Rate Exchange Agreements
Notional Amounts and Estimated Fair Values

         
March 31, 2019         
(In millions)
Notional
Amount

 
Fair Value of
Derivatives

 
Unrealized
Gain/(Loss)
on Hedged
Items

 
Financial
Instruments
Carried at
Fair Value

 Difference
Fair value hedges:         
Advances$27,233
 $12
 $71
 $
 $83
Non-callable bonds3,924
 (10) 5
 
 (5)
Callable bonds2,212
 (15) 15
 
 
MBS5,173
 (140) 208
 
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Subtotal38,542
 (153) 299
 
 146
Not qualifying for hedge accounting:        
Advances8,360
 8
 
 3
 11
Non-callable bonds17,951
 1
 
 (1) 
Callable bonds5,875
 (23) 
 8
 (15)
Discount notes23,848
 8
 
 
 8
FFCB bonds500
 (1) 
 
 (1)
MBS980
 
 
 
 
Mortgage delivery commitments33
 
 
 
 
Subtotal57,547
 (7) 
 10
 3
Total excluding accrued interest96,089
 (160) 299
 10
 149
Accrued interest
 24
 (6) 9
 27
Total$96,089
 $(136) $293
 $19
 $176
December 31, 2018         
(In millions)
Notional
Amount

 
Fair Value of
Derivatives

 
Unrealized
Gain/(Loss)
on Hedged
Items

 
Financial
Instruments
Carried at
Fair Value

 Difference
Fair value hedges:         
Advances$30,045
 $(14) $(32) $
 $(46)
Non-callable bonds4,496
 (9) 17
 
 8
Callable bonds2,214
 (30) 31
 
 1
MBS3,749
 (42) 91
 
 49
Subtotal40,504
 (95) 107
 
 12
Not qualifying for hedge accounting:        
Advances9,214
 11
 
 (43) (32)
Non-callable bonds21,541
 5
 
 
 5
Callable bonds5,446
 (46) 
 14
 (32)
Discount notes22,780
 24
 
 
 24
FFCB bonds500
 (1) 
 
 (1)
MBS1,480
 1
 
 
 1
Mortgage delivery commitments12
 
 
 
 
Subtotal60,973
 (6) 
 (29) (35)
Total excluding accrued interest101,477
 (101) 107
 (29) (23)
Accrued interest
 40
 (63) 4
 (19)
Total$101,477
 $(61) $44
 $(25) $(42)
Credit Risk. For a discussion of derivatives credit exposure, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Derivative Counterparties.”

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Concentration Risk.Derivative Counterparties. The following table presents the concentration in derivatives with derivative counterparties whose outstanding notional balances represented 10% or more of the Bank’s total notional amount of derivatives outstanding as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Concentration of Derivative Counterparties
                
(Dollars in millions)March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Derivative Counterparty
Credit  
Rating(1)  
 
Notional
Amount

 
Percentage of
Total
Notional Amount

 
Credit  
Rating(1)  
 
Notional
Amount

 
Percentage of
Total
Notional Amount

Credit  
Rating(1)  
 
Notional
Amount

 
Percentage of
Total
Notional Amount

 
Credit  
Rating(1)  
 
Notional
Amount

 
Percentage of
Total
Notional Amount

Uncleared                
OthersAt least BBB $25,114
 26% At least BBB $24,282
 24%At least BBB $9,049
 8% At least BBB $11,476
 11%
Subtotal uncleared 25,114
 26
 24,282
 24
 9,049
 8
 11,476
 11
Cleared                
LCH Ltd(2)
                
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLCA 38,394
 40
 A 46,425
 46
A 50,370
 42
 A 61,067
 61
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLCA 32,548
 34
 A 30,758
 30
A 59,361
 50
 A 28,483
 28
Subtotal cleared 70,942
 74
 77,183
 76
 109,731
 92
 89,550
 89
Total(3)
 $96,056
 100% $101,465
 100% $118,780
 100% $101,026
 100%

(1)The credit ratings used by the Bank are based on the lower of Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) or S&P Global Ratings (S&P) ratings. 
(2)London Clearing House (LCH) Ltd is the Bank’s counterparty for all of its cleared swaps and iswas rated A+AA- with a Negative CreditWatch by S&P.&P at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019. For purposes of clearing swaps with LCH Ltd, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are the Bank’s clearing agents.
(3)Total notional amount at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, does not include $33$87 million and $12$46 million of mortgage delivery commitments with members, respectively.

Liquidity and Capital Resources
The Bank’s financial strategies are designed to enable the Bank to safely expand and contract its assets, liabilities, and capital as membership composition and member credit needs change. The Bank’s liquidity and capital resources are designed to support its financial strategies. The Bank’s primary source of liquidity is its access to the debt capital markets through consolidated obligation issuance. The maintenance of the Bank’s capital resources is governed by its capital plan.
Liquidity
The Bank strives to maintain the liquidity necessary to repay maturing consolidated obligations for which it is the primary obligor, meet other obligations and commitments, and meet expected and unexpected member credit demands. The Bank monitors its financial position in order to maintain ready access to available funds to meet normal transaction requirements, take advantage of appropriate investment opportunities, and manage unforeseen liquidity demands.
The Bank generally manages operational, contingent, and refinancing risks using a portfolio of cash and short-term investments and access to the debt capital markets. In addition, the Bank maintains alternate sources of funds, detailed in its contingent fundingliquidity plan, which also includes an explanation of how sources of funds may be allocated under stressed market conditions, such as short-term operational disruptions at the Bank or the Office of Finance or short-term disruptions in the debt capital markets. The Bank maintains cash deposits, short-term and high-quality money market investments, and government and agency securities in amounts that may average up to three times the Bank’s capital as a primary source of funds to satisfy these requirements and objectives.
The Bank has a regulatory contingent liquidity requirement to maintain at least 5 business days of liquidity to enable it to meet its obligations without issuance of new consolidated obligations. In addition, the Finance Agency has established base case liquidity guidelines that each FHLBank maintain sufficient on-balance sheet liquidity at

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least equal to its anticipated cash outflows, assuming no new consolidated obligation issuance, renewal of all maturing advances, a specified percentage ofdrawdown on letters of credit as a use of funds,balances, and certain Treasury investments as a source of funds. The Finance Agency’s guidance provides that base case liquidity should generally be maintained for 10 to 30 days. In addition,The Bank actively monitors and manages refinancing risk. Finance Agency guidance

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specifies tolerance levels related to the size of each FHLBank’s funding gaps to measure refinancing risk as the difference between assets and liabilities that are scheduled to mature during a specified period, expressed as a percentage of total assets. The guidance limits three-month and one-year funding gaps generally between the range of –10% to –20% and –25% to –35%, respectively. Funding gaps are measured at monthend, using the average ratio for the three most recent monthends.
In addition to the regulatory contingent liquidity requirement and the Finance Agency’s guidelines on contingent liquidity, the Bank models its cash commitments and expected cash flows on a daily basis to determine its projected liquidity position. If a market or operational disruption occurred that prevented the issuance of new consolidated obligations, the Bank could meet its obligations by: (i) allowing short-term liquid investments to mature, (ii) using eligible securities as collateral for repurchase agreement borrowings, and (iii) if necessary, allowing advances to mature without renewal. In addition, the Bank may be able to borrow on a short-term unsecured basis from other financial institutions (Federal funds purchased) or other FHLBanks (inter-FHLBank borrowings).
As of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, the Bank held total sources of funds in an amount that would have allowed the Bank to meet its liquidity needs for more than five consecutive business days without issuing new consolidated obligations subject to certain conditions. The following table showsfor over ten days, in accordance with the Finance Agency guidance. In addition, the Bank’s principal financial obligations due, estimated sourcesfunding gap positions as of funds available to meet those obligations, and the net difference between funds available and funds needed for the 5-business day period following March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.
Principal Financial Obligations Due and Funds Available for Selected Period
    
 As of March 31, 2019 As of December 31, 2018
(In millions)5 Business Days 5 Business Days
Obligations due:   
Demand deposits$311
 $283
Loans from other FHLBanks
 250
Discount note and bond maturities and expected exercises of bond call options4,643
 4,485
Subtotal obligations due4,954
 5,018
Sources of available funds:   
Maturing investments15,245
 11,312
Available cash16
 11
Proceeds from scheduled settlements of discount notes and bonds25
 350
Maturing advances and scheduled prepayments6,445
 6,946
Subtotal sources of available funds21,731
 18,619
Net funds available$16,777
 $13,601
2019, were within the tolerance levels provided by the Finance Agency guidance.
For more information, see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Liquidity and Capital Resources – Liquidity” and “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Liquidity Risk” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10‑K.

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Regulatory Capital Requirements
The FHLBank Act and Finance Agency regulations specify that each FHLBank must meet certain minimum regulatory capital standards. The Bank must maintain: (i) total regulatory capital in an amount equal to at least 4% of its total assets, (ii) leverage capital in an amount equal to at least 5% of its total assets, and (iii) permanent capital in an amount that is greater than or equal to its risk-based capital requirement. Because the Bank issues only Class B stock, regulatory capital and permanent capital for the Bank are both composed of retained earnings and Class B stock, including mandatorily redeemable capital stock (which is classified as a liability for financial reporting purposes). Regulatory capital and permanent capital do not include AOCI. Leverage capital is defined as the sum of permanent capital weighted by a 1.5 multiplier plus non-permanent capital. The risk-based capital requirement is equal to the sum of the Bank’s credit risk, market risk, and operations risk capital requirements, all of which are calculated in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Finance Agency.
The following table shows the Bank’s compliance with the Finance Agency’s capital requirements at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. The Bank’s risk-based capital requirement decreased to $1.4 billion at March 31, 2020, from $1.5 billion at December 31, 2019.
Regulatory Capital Requirements
        
 March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018
(Dollars in millions)Required
 Actual
 Required
 Actual
Risk-based capital$1,919
 $6,586
 $1,899
 $6,522
Total regulatory capital$4,423
 $6,586
 $4,373
 $6,522
Total regulatory capital ratio4.00% 5.96% 4.00% 5.97%
Leverage capital$5,529
 $9,879
 $5,466
 $9,783
Leverage ratio5.00% 8.93% 5.00% 8.95%
The Bank repurchased $344 million in excess capital stock during the first three months of 2019. As a result of changes in the Bank’s capital plan, both capital stock and retained earnings are required to support regulatory capital compliance.
On April 9, 2018, the Bank’s Board of Directors revised the Framework to change the Bank’s practice of repurchasing the surplus capital stock of all members and the excess capital stock of all former members from a quarterly schedule to a daily schedule. Surplus capital stock is defined as any stock holdings in excess of 115% of a member’s minimum stock requirement. Effective April 24, 2018, the Bank began calculating the amount of stock to be repurchased each business day based on the shareholder’s capital stock outstanding after all stock transactions are completed for the day, ensuring that each member and former member would continue to meet its minimum capital stock requirement after the repurchase. The Bank may change this practice at any time. All repurchases of capital stock are at the Bank’s discretion, subject to certain statutory and regulatory requirements and to the Bank’s Risk Management Policy, Capital Plan, and the Framework.
Regulatory Capital Requirements
        
 March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
(Dollars in millions)Required
 Actual
 Required
 Actual
Risk-based capital$1,411
 $6,718
 $1,519
 $6,605
Total regulatory capital$4,995
 $6,718
 $4,274
 $6,605
Total regulatory capital ratio4.00% 5.38% 4.00% 6.18%
Leverage capital$6,244
 $10,078
 $5,342
 $9,908
Leverage ratio5.00% 8.07% 5.00% 9.27%
The Bank’s capital requirements are more fully discussed in “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 15 – Capital” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.

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Risk Management
The Bank has an integrated corporate governance and internal control framework designed to support effective management of the Bank’s business activities and the risks inherent in these activities. As part of this framework, the Bank’sBank��s Board of Directors has adopted a Risk Governance Policy that outlines the key roles and responsibilities of the Board of Directors and management and sets forth how the Bank is organized to achieve its risk management objectives, including the implementation of the Bank’s strategic objectives, risk management strategies, corporate governance, and standards of conduct. The policy also establishes the Bank’s risk governance organizational structure and identifies the general roles and responsibilities of the Board of Directors and management in establishing risk management policies, procedures, and guidelines; in overseeing the enterprise risk profile; and in implementing enterprise risk management processes and business strategies. The policy establishes an independent risk oversight function to identify, assess, measure, monitor, and report on the enterprise risk profile and risk management capabilities of the Bank. For more information, see “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
Advances. The Bank manages the credit risk of advances and other credit products by setting the credit and collateral terms available to individual members and housing associates based on their creditworthiness and on the quality and value of the assets they pledge as collateral. The Bank also has procedures to assess the mortgage loan quality and documentation standards of institutions that pledge mortgage loan collateral. In addition, the Bank has collateral policies and restricted lending procedures in place to help manage its exposure to institutions that experience difficulty in meeting their capital requirements or other standards of creditworthiness. These credit and collateral policies balance the Bank’s dual goals of meeting the needs of members and housing associates as a reliable source of liquidity and mitigating credit risk by adjusting credit and collateral terms in view of deterioration in creditworthiness. The Bank has never experienced a credit loss on an advance.
Pursuant to the Bank’s lending agreements with its borrowers, the Bank limits extensions of credit to individual borrowers to a percentage of the market value or unpaid principal balance of the borrower’s pledged collateral, known as the borrowing capacity, which the Bank can change from time to time. The borrowing capacity percentage varies according to several factors, including the charter type of the institution, the collateral type, the value assigned to the collateral, the results of the Bank’s collateral field review of the borrower’s collateral, the pledging method used for loan collateral (specific identification or blanket lien), the amount of loan data provided (detailed or summary reporting), the data reporting frequency (monthly or quarterly), the borrower’s financial strength and condition, and any institution-specific collateral risks. Under the terms of the Bank’s lending agreements, the aggregate borrowing capacity of a borrower’s pledged eligible collateral must meet or exceed the total amount of the borrower’s outstanding advances, other extensions of credit, and certain other borrower obligations and liabilities. The Bank monitors each borrower’s aggregate borrowing capacity and collateral requirements on a daily basis by comparing the institution’s borrowing capacity to its obligations to the Bank.
In addition, the total amount of advances made available to each member or housing associate may be limited by the financing availability assigned by the Bank, which is generally expressed as a percentage of the member’s or housing associate’s assets, which the Bank can change from time to time. The amount of financing availability is generally determined by the creditworthiness of the member or housing associate.
When a nonmember financial institution acquires some or all of the assets and liabilities of a member, including outstanding advances and Bank capital stock, the Bank may allow the advances to remain outstanding, at its discretion. The nonmember borrower is required to meet the Bank’s applicable credit, collateral, and capital stock requirements, including requirements regarding creditworthiness and collateral borrowing capacity.

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The following tables present a summary of the status of the credit outstanding and overall collateral borrowing capacity of the Bank’s member and nonmember borrowers as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019. During the three months ended March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank’s internal credit ratings stayed the same or improved for the

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majority of members and nonmember borrowers.
Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Credit Quality Rating
Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Credit Quality Rating
Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Credit Quality Rating
                  
(Dollars in millions)                  
March 31, 2019         
March 31, 2020         
All Members and
Nonmembers
 Members and Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
All Members and
Nonmembers
 Members and Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
      
Collateral Borrowing Capacity(2)
      
Collateral Borrowing Capacity(2)
Member or Nonmember
Credit Quality Rating
Number
 Number
 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 Total
 Used
Number
 Number
 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 Total
 Used
1-3267
 148
 $87,287
 $242,359
 36%268
 159
 $76,482
 $203,853
 38%
4-655
 34
 1,633
 7,684
 21
58
 36
 20,549
 57,356
 36
7-105
 4
 37
 140
 26
5
 4
 53
 62
 85
Subtotal327
 186
 88,957
 250,183
 36
331
 199
 97,084
 261,271
 37
CDFIs9
 6
 139
 159
 87
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs)7
 6
 104
 111
 94
Housing associates2
 1
 40
 121
 33
2
 
 
 
 
Total338
 193
 $89,136
 $250,463
 36%340
 205
 $97,188
 $261,382
 37%
December 31, 2018         
December 31, 2019         
All Members and
Nonmembers
 Members and Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
All Members and
Nonmembers
 Members and Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
      
Collateral Borrowing Capacity(2)
      
Collateral Borrowing Capacity(2)
Member or Nonmember
Credit Quality Rating
Number
 Number
 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 Total
 Used
Number
 Number
 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 Total
 Used
1-3267
 161
 $90,322
 $242,351
 37%271
 151
 $67,982
 $204,970
 33%
4-656
 35
 1,183
 5,576
 21
54
 33
 18,654
 50,732
 37
7-103
 2
 7
 34
 21
5
 4
 41
 65
 63
Subtotal326
 198
 91,512
 247,961
 37
330
 188
 86,677
 255,767
 34
CDFIs9
 5
 123
 133
 92
7
 5
 102
 112
 91
Housing associates2
 1
 41
 118
 35
2
 
 
 
 
Total337
 204
 $91,676
 $248,212
 37%339
 193
 $86,779
 $255,879
 34%
(1)Includes advances, letters of credit, the market value of swaps, estimated prepayment fees for certain borrowers, and the credit enhancement obligation on MPF loans.
(2)Collateral borrowing capacity does not represent any commitment to lend on the part of the Bank.

Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Unused Borrowing Capacity
Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Unused Borrowing Capacity
Member and Nonmember Credit Outstanding and Collateral Borrowing Capacity
by Unused Borrowing Capacity
          
(Dollars in millions)          
March 31, 2019     
March 31, 2020     
Unused Borrowing Capacity
Number of Members and Nonmembers with
Credit Outstanding

 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 
Collateral
Borrowing
Capacity(2)

Number of Members and Nonmembers with
Credit Outstanding

 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 
Collateral
Borrowing
Capacity(2)

0% – 10%6
 $293
 $322
11
 $1,436
 $1,503
11% – 25%10
 1,043
 1,353
12
 13,262
 16,502
26% – 50%22
 30,657
 49,843
31
 18,771
 28,002
More than 50%155
 57,143
 198,945
151
 63,719
 215,375
Total193
 $89,136
 $250,463
205
 $97,188
 $261,382

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December 31, 2019     
Unused Borrowing Capacity
Number of Members and Nonmembers with
Credit Outstanding

 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 
Collateral
Borrowing
Capacity(2)

Number of Members and Nonmembers with
Credit Outstanding

 
Credit
Outstanding(1)

 
Collateral
Borrowing
Capacity(2)

0% – 10%5
 $128
 $134
7
 $1,352
 $1,419
11% – 25%6
 554
 690
9
 754
 903
26% – 50%33
 54,697
 93,168
24
 21,955
 34,221
More than 50%160
 36,297
 154,220
153
 62,718
 219,336
Total204
 $91,676
 $248,212
193
 $86,779
 $255,879
 
(1)Includes advances, letters of credit, the market value of swaps, estimated prepayment fees for certain borrowers, and the credit enhancement obligation on MPF loans.
(2)Collateral borrowing capacity does not represent any commitment to lend on the part of the Bank.
Based on the collateral pledged as security for advances, the Bank’s credit analyses of borrowers’ financial condition, and the Bank’s credit extension and collateral policies, the Bank expects to collect all amounts due according to the contractual terms of the advances. Therefore, no allowance for credit losses on advances is deemed necessary by the Bank. The Bank has never experienced any credit losses on advances.
Securities pledged as collateral are assigned borrowing capacities that reflect the securities’ pricing volatilitymarket valuations and market liquidityliquidation risks. Securities are delivered to the Bank’s custodian when they are pledged. The Bank prices securities collateral on a daily basis or twice a month, depending on the availability and reliability of external pricing sources. Securities that are normally priced twice a month may be priced more frequently in volatile market conditions. The Bank benchmarks the borrowing capacities for securities collateral to the market on a periodic basis and may review and change the borrowing capacity for any security type at any time. As of March 31, 2019, the borrowing capacities assigned to U.S. Treasury and agency securities ranged from 80% to 99% of their market value. The borrowing capacities assigned to private-label MBS, which must be rated AAA or AA when initially pledged, generally ranged from 65% to 90% of their market value, depending on the underlying collateral (residential mortgage loans, home equity loans, or commercial real estate loans), the rating, and the subordination structure of the respective securities.
The following table presents the securities collateral pledged by all members and by nonmembers with credit outstanding at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Composition of Securities Collateral Pledged
by Members and by Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
              
(In millions)March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Securities Type with Current Credit RatingsCurrent Par
 
Borrowing
Capacity

 Current Par
 
Borrowing
Capacity

Current Par
 
Borrowing
Capacity

 Current Par
 
Borrowing
Capacity

U.S. Treasury (bills, notes, bonds)$219
 $214
 $1,966
 $1,899
$857
 $909
 $183
 $176
Agency (notes, subordinated debt, structured notes, indexed amortization notes, and Small Business Administration pools)3,218
 3,138
 3,276
 3,168
3,111
 3,092
 2,897
 2,846
Agency pools and collateralized mortgage obligations9,242
 8,777
 9,245
 8,643
17,410
 17,119
 8,576
 8,287
Private-label commercial MBS – publicly registered investment-grade-rated senior tranches5
 5
 3
 3
6
 6
 5
 5
PLRMBS – private placement investment-grade-rated senior tranches57
 42
 58
 43
PLRMBS – private label investment-grade-rated senior tranches40
 29
 45
 34
Term deposits with the Bank2
 2
 
 
Total$12,741
 $12,176
 $14,548
 $13,756
$21,426
 $21,157
 $11,706
 $11,348
With respect to loan collateral, most borrowers may choose to pledge loan collateral by specific identification or under a blanket lien. Insurance companies, CDFIs, and housing associates are required to pledge loan collateral by specific identification with monthly reporting. All other borrowers pledging by specific identification must provide a detailed listing of all the loans pledged to the Bank on a monthly basis. With a blanket lien, a borrower generally pledges the following loan types, whether or not the individual loans are eligible to receive borrowing capacity: all

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loans secured by real estate; all loans made for commercial, corporate, or business purposes; and all participations in these loans. Borrowers pledging under a blanket lien may provide a detailed listing of loans or may use a summary reporting method.
The Bank may require certain borrowers to deliver pledged loan collateral to the Bank for one or more reasons, including the following: the borrower is a de novo institution (chartered within the last three years), an insurance company, a CDFI, or a housing associate; the Bank is concerned about the borrower’s creditworthiness; or the Bank is concerned about the maintenance of its collateral or the priority of its security interest. With the exception of insurance companies, CDFIs, and housing associates, borrowers required to deliver loan collateral must pledge those loans under a blanket lien with detailed reporting.
As of March 31, 2019,2020, of the loan collateral pledged to the Bank, 22%23% was pledged by 2827 institutions by specific identification, 53%50% was pledged by 116115 institutions under a blanket lien with detailed reporting, and 25%27% was pledged by 128130 institutions under a blanket lien with summary reporting. For each borrower that pledges loan collateral, the Bank conducts loan collateral field reviews once every six months or every one, two, or three years, depending on the risk profile of the borrower and the types of collateral pledged by the borrower.

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As of March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank’s maximum borrowing capacities as a percentage of the assigned market value of mortgage loan collateral pledged under a blanket lien with detailed reporting were as follows: 90%85% for first lien residential mortgage loans, 88%83% for multifamily mortgage loans, 88%83% for commercial mortgage loans, and 77%67% for second lien residential mortgage loans. The maximum borrowing capacity for small business, small agribusiness, and small farm loans was 50%25% of the unpaid principal balance, although most of these loans are pledged under blanket lien with summary reporting, with a maximum borrowing capacity of 25%. The highest borrowing capacities are available to borrowers that pledge under a blanket lien with detailed reporting because the detailed loan information allows the Bank to assess the value of the collateral more precisely and because additional collateral is pledged under the blanket lien that may not receive borrowing capacity but may be liquidated to repay advances in the event of default. The Bank may review and change the maximum borrowing capacity for any type of loan collateral at any time.
The table below presents the mortgage loan collateral pledged by all members and by nonmembers with credit outstanding at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Composition of Loan Collateral Pledged
by Members and by Nonmembers with Credit Outstanding
              
(In millions)March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Loan Type
Unpaid Principal
Balance

 
Borrowing
Capacity

 
Unpaid Principal
Balance

 
Borrowing
Capacity

Unpaid Principal
Balance

 
Borrowing
Capacity

 
Unpaid Principal
Balance

 
Borrowing
Capacity

First lien residential mortgage loans$174,300
 $147,938
 $171,487
 $144,748
$188,087
 $150,952
 $174,580
 $152,960
Second lien residential mortgage loans and home equity lines of credit18,942
 10,148
 19,149
 10,539
17,452
 7,779
 17,469
 9,437
Multifamily mortgage loans30,341
 22,879
 29,200
 22,054
35,502
 24,823
 32,652
 25,321
Commercial mortgage loans74,369
 52,559
 74,039
 52,365
77,346
 52,262
 72,118
 52,329
Loan participations(1)
5,024
 3,678
 5,207
 3,818
4,778
 3,316
 4,610
 3,496
Small business, small farm, and small agribusiness loans4,380
 1,085
 3,774
 932
4,391
 1,093
 4,010
 988
Other4
 
 2
 
Total$307,356
 $238,287
 $302,856
 $234,456
$327,560
 $240,225
 $305,441
 $244,531
(1)The unpaid principal balance for loan participations is 100% of the outstanding loan amount. The borrowing capacity for loan participations is based on the participated amount pledged to the Bank.
The Bank holds a security interest in subprime residential mortgage loans pledged as collateral. Subprime loans are defined as loans with a borrower FICO score of 660 or less at origination, or if the original FICO score is not available, as loans with a current borrower FICO score of 660 or less. At March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, the unpaid principal balance of these loans totaled $7$6 billion and $8$6 billion, respectively. The Bank reviews and assigns borrowing capacities to subprime mortgage loans as it does for all other types of loan collateral, taking into account the known credit attributes in the pricing of the loans. All advances, including those made to borrowers

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pledging subprime mortgage loans, are required to be fully collateralized. The Bank limits the amount of borrowing capacity that may be supported by subprime collateral.
Investments. The Bank has adopted credit policies and exposure limits for investments that promote risk limitation, diversification, and liquidity. These policies determine eligible counterparties and restrict the amounts and terms of the Bank’s investments with any given counterparty according to the Bank’s own capital position as well as the capital and creditworthiness of the counterparty.
The Bank monitors its investments for substantive changes in relevant market conditions and any declines in fair value. For securities in an unrealized loss position because of factors other than movements in interest rates, such as widening of mortgage asset spreads, the Bank considers whether it expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of the security by comparing the best estimateexpectations of the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected from the security with the amortized cost basis of the security. If the Bank’s best estimateexpectations of the present value of the cash flows expected to be collected is less than the amortized cost basis, the difference is considered the credit loss.

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When the fair value of an individual investment security falls below its amortized cost, the Bank evaluates whether an allowance for credit losses is necessary on the decline is other than temporary.security. The Bank recognizes an OTTIallowance for credit losses when it determines that it will be unable to recover the entire amortized cost basis of the security and the fair value of the investment security is less than its amortized cost. The Bank considers its intent to hold the security and whether it is more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell the security before its anticipated recovery of the remaining cost basis, and other factors. The Bank generally views changes in the fair value of the securities caused by movements in interest rates to be temporary.
The following tables present the Bank’s investment credit exposure at the dates indicated, based on the lowest of the long-term credit ratings provided by Moody’s, S&P, or comparable Fitch Ratings (Fitch) ratings.
Investment Credit Exposure
            
(In millions)           
March 31, 2020           
  Carrying Value
 
Credit Rating(1)
    
Investment TypeAA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
Non-MBS           
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$9,668
 $
 $
 $
 $
 $9,668
Total non-MBS9,668
 
 
 
 
 9,668
MBS:           
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:           
Ginnie Mae445
 
 
 
 
 445
GSEs – single-family:           
Freddie Mac952
 
 
 
 
 952
Fannie Mae(2)
1,678
 5
 
 3
 
 1,686
Subtotal2,630
 5
 
 3
 
 2,638
GSEs – multifamily:           
Freddie Mac3,221
 
 
 
 
 3,221
Fannie Mae8,802
 
 
 
 
 8,802
Subtotal12,023









12,023
Total GSEs14,653
 5
 
 3
 
 14,661
PLRMBS:           
Prime34
 32
 71
 179
 111
 427
Alt-A53
 55
 42
 1,438
 569
 2,157
Total PLRMBS87
 87
 113
 1,617
 680
 2,584
Total MBS15,185
 92
 113
 1,620
 680
 17,690
Total securities24,853
 92
 113
 1,620
 680
 27,358
Interest-bearing deposits832
 2,745
 
 
 
 3,577
Securities purchased under agreements to resell2,000
 
 
 
 
 2,000
Federal funds sold(3)
2,041
 8,040
 
 
 
 10,081
Total investments$29,726
 $10,877
 $113
 $1,620
 $680
 $43,016

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Investment Credit Exposure
              
(In millions)             
March 31, 2019             
  Carrying Value
 
Credit Rating(1)
    
Investment TypeAAA
 AA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
Non-MBS             
Housing finance agency bonds:             
CalHFA bonds$
 $
 $63
 $
 $
 $
 $63
GSEs:             
FFCB bonds
 605
 
 
 
 
 605
Total non-MBS
 605
 63
 
 
 
 668
MBS:             
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:             
Ginnie Mae
 588
 
 
 
 
 588
GSEs – single-family:             
Freddie Mac
 1,413
 
 
 
 
 1,413
Fannie Mae(2)

 2,410
 6
 
 4
 
 2,420
Subtotal
 3,823
 6
 
 4
 
 3,833
GSEs – multifamily:             
Freddie Mac
 4,327
 
 
 
 
 4,327
Fannie Mae
 6,405
 
 
 
 
 6,405
Subtotal

10,732









10,732
Total GSEs
 14,555
 6
 
 4
 
 14,565
PLRMBS:             
Prime
 54
 29
 128
 282
 143
 636
Alt-A, option ARM
 
 
 6
 674
 16
 696
Alt-A, other1
 89
 44
 77
 1,346
 719
 2,276
Total PLRMBS1
 143
 73
 211
 2,302
 878
 3,608
Total MBS1
 15,286
 79
 211
 2,306
 878
 18,761
Total securities1
 15,891
 142
 211
 2,306
 878
 19,429
Interest-bearing deposits
 10
 1,570
 
 
 
 1,580
Securities purchased under agreements to resell
 8,250
 
 
 
 
 8,250
Federal funds sold(3)

 3,765
 3,470
 
 
 
 7,235
Total investments$1
 $27,916
 $5,182
 $211
 $2,306
 $878
 $36,494

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(In millions)                      
December 31, 2018           
December 31, 2019           
Carrying ValueCarrying Value
Credit Rating(1)
   
Credit Rating(1)
   
Investment TypeAA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
AA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
Non-MBS                      
Housing finance agency bonds:          
CalHFA bonds$
 $100
 $
 $
 $
 $100
GSEs:           
FFCB bonds656
 
 
 
 
 656
U.S. obligations – Treasury securities$7,050
 $
 $
 $
 $
 $7,050
Total non-MBS656
 100
 
 
 
 756
7,050
 
 
 
 
 7,050
MBS:                      
Other U.S. obligations – single-family:                     
Ginnie Mae614
 
 
 
 
 614
474
 
 
 
 
 474
GSEs – single-family:                     
Freddie Mac1,506
 
 
 
 
 1,506
1,063
 
 
 
 
 1,063
Fannie Mae(2)
2,588
 6
 
 4
 
 2,598
1,836
 5
 
 3
 
 1,844
Subtotal4,094
 6
 
 4
 
 4,104
2,899
 5
 
 3
 
 2,907
GSEs – multifamily:                     

Freddie Mac4,351
 
 
 
 
 4,351
3,402
 
 
 
 
 3,402
Fannie Mae5,110
 
 
 
 
 5,110
7,992
 
 
 
 
 7,992
Subtotal9,461
 
 
 
 
 9,461
11,394
 
 
 
 
 11,394
Total GSEs13,555
 6
 
 4
 
 13,565
14,293
 5
 
 3
 
 14,301
PLRMBS:                     
Prime57
 31
 127
 309
 147
 671
35
 39
 71
 201
 127
 473
Alt-A, option ARM
 
 6
 682
 11
 699
Alt-A, other101
 36
 89
 1,407
 743
 2,376
Alt-A58
 53
 60
 1,667
 670
 2,508
Total PLRMBS158
 67
 222
 2,398
 901
 3,746
93
 92
 131
 1,868
 797
 2,981
Total MBS14,327
 73
 222
 2,402
 901
 17,925
14,860
 97
 131
 1,871
 797
 17,756
Total securities14,983
 173
 222
 2,402
 901
 18,681
21,910
 97
 131
 1,871
 797
 24,806
Interest-bearing deposits15
 2,540
 
 
 
 2,555

 2,269
 
 
 
 2,269
Securities purchased under agreements to resell7,300
 
 
 
 
 7,300
7,000
 
 
 
 
 7,000
Federal funds sold(3)
1,421
 2,298
 126
 
 
 3,845
441
 3,121
 
 
 
 3,562
Total investments$23,719
 $5,011
 $348
 $2,402
 $901
 $32,381
$29,351
 $5,487
 $131
 $1,871
 $797
 $37,637

(1)Credit ratings of BB and lower are below investment grade.
(2)The Bank has one security guaranteed by Fannie Mae but rated DBB at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019, by S&P because of extraordinary expenses incurred during bankruptcy of the security's sponsor.
(3)Includes $141 million and $141 million at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018, respectively,2019, in Federal funds sold to a member counterparty determined by the Bank to have an internal credit rating equivalent to an AA rating.
For all securities in its AFS and HTM portfolios, for Federal funds sold, and for securities purchased under agreements to resell, the Bank does not intend to sell any security and it is not more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell any security before its anticipated recovery of the remaining amortized cost basis.
The Bank invests in short-term unsecured interest-bearing deposits, short-term unsecured Federal funds sold, securities purchased under agreements to resell, and negotiable certificates of deposit with member and nonmember counterparties, all of which are highly rated.
The Bank actively monitors its credit exposures and the credit quality of its counterparties, including an assessment of each counterparty’s financial performance, capital adequacy, likelihood of parental or sovereign support, and the current market perceptions of the counterparties. The Bank may also consider general macroeconomic and market conditions and political stability when establishing limits on unsecured investments with U.S. branches and agency

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offices of foreign commercial banks. As a result of deteriorating financial condition or concerns about adverse economic or market developments, the Bank may reduce limits or terms on unsecured investments or suspend a counterparty.

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Finance Agency regulations limit the amount of unsecured credit that an individual FHLBank may extend to a single counterparty. This limit is calculated with reference to a percentage of either the FHLBank’s or the counterparty’s capital and to the counterparty’s overall credit rating. Under these regulations, the lesser of the FHLBank’s total regulatory capital or the counterparty’s Tier 1 capital is multiplied by a percentage specified in the regulation. The percentages used to determine the maximum amount of term extensions of unsecured credit range from 1% to 15%, depending on the counterparty’s overall credit rating. Term extensions of unsecured credit include on-balance sheet transactions, off-balance sheet commitments, and derivative transactions, but exclude overnight Federal funds sales, even if subject to a continuing contract. (See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Risk Management – Derivative Counterparties” for additional information related to derivatives exposure.)
Finance Agency regulations also permit the FHLBanks to extend additional unsecured credit to the same single counterparty for overnight sales of Federal funds, even if subject to a continuing contract. However, an FHLBank’s total unsecured credit to a single counterparty (total term plus additional overnight Federal funds unsecured credit) may not exceed twice the regulatory limit for term exposures (2% to 30% of the lesser of the FHLBank’s total regulatory capital or the counterparty’s Tier 1 capital, based on the counterparty’s overall credit rating). In addition, the FHLBanks are prohibited by Finance Agency regulation from investing in financial instruments issued by non-U.S. entities other than those issued by U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks.
Under Finance Agency regulations, the total amount of unsecured credit that an FHLBank may extend to a group of affiliated counterparties for term extensions of unsecured credit and overnight Federal funds sales, combined, may not exceed 30% of the FHLBank’s total capital. These limits on affiliated counterparty groups are in addition to the limits on extensions of unsecured credit applicable to any single counterparty within the affiliated group.
The following table presents the unsecured credit exposure with counterparties by investment type at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Unsecured Investment Credit Exposure by Investment Type
      
Carrying Value(1)

Carrying Value(1)

(In millions)March 31, 2019
 December 31, 2018
March 31, 2020
 December 31, 2019
Interest-bearing deposits$1,580
 $2,555
$3,575
 $2,269
Federal funds sold7,235
 3,845
10,081
 3,562
Total$8,815
 $6,400
$13,656
 $5,831

(1)Excludes unsecured investment credit exposure to U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities, government-sponsored enterprises, and supranational entities and does not include related accrued interest as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
The following table presents the credit ratings of the unsecured investment credit exposures presented by the domicile of the counterparty or the domicile of the counterparty’s parent for U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks, based on the lowest of the credit ratings provided by Moody’s, S&P, or comparable Fitch ratings. This table does not reflect the foreign sovereign government’s credit rating. At March 31, 2019, 43%2020, 21% of the carrying value of unsecured investments held by the Bank were rated AA, and 71%54% of the Bank’s total unsecured investments were to U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks. At March 31, 2020, all of the unsecured investments held by the Bank had overnight maturities.

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Ratings of Unsecured Investment Credit Exposure by Domicile of Counterparty
          
(In millions)          
March 31, 2019     
March 31, 2020     
Carrying Value(1)
Carrying Value(1)
Credit Rating(2)
 
Credit Rating(2)
 
Domicile of CounterpartyAA
 A
 Total
AA
 A
 Total
Domestic(3)
$151
 $2,370
 $2,521
$971
 $3,555
 $4,526
U.S. subsidiaries of foreign commercial banks
 1,790
 1,790
Total domestic and U.S. subsidiaries of foreign commercial banks971
 5,345
 6,316
U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks:          
Australia1,630
 
 1,630
1,400
 
 1,400
Austria
 250
 250

 300
 300
Canada750
 1,485
 2,235
500
 1,400
 1,900
Finland444
 
 444
France
 200
 200
Japan
 500
 500
Netherlands
 200
 200

 1,400
 1,400
Singapore800
 
 800
Switzerland
 535
 535

 920
 920
United Kingdom
 920
 920
Total U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks3,624
 2,670
 6,294
1,900
 5,440
 7,340
Total unsecured credit exposure$3,775
 $5,040
 $8,815
$2,871
 $10,785
 $13,656

(1)
Excludes unsecured investment credit exposure to U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities, government-sponsored enterprises, and supranational entities and does not include related accrued interest as of March 31, 20192020.
(2)
Does not reflect changes in ratings, outlook, or watch status occurring after March 31, 20192020. These ratings represent the lowest rating available for each unsecured investment owned by the Bank, based on the ratings provided by Fitch, Moody’s, S&P, or comparable Fitch ratings.S&P. The Bank’s internal rating may differ from this rating.
(3)Includes $141 million at March 31, 2019,2020, in Federal funds sold to a member counterparty determined by the Bank to have an internal credit rating equivalent to an AA rating.
The following table presents the contractual maturity of the Bank’s unsecured investment credit exposure by the domicile of the counterparty or the domicile of the counterparty’s parent for U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks. At March 31, 2019, 66% of the carrying value of unsecured investments held by the Bank had overnight maturities.

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Contractual Maturity of Unsecured Investment Credit Exposure by Domicile of Counterparty
        
(In millions)       
March 31, 2019       
  
Carrying Value(1)
Domicile of CounterpartyOvernight
 Due 2 Days Through 30 Days
 Due 31 Days Through 90 Days
 Total
Domestic$2,521
 $
 $
 $2,521
U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks:       
Australia800
 530
 300
 1,630
Austria250
 
 
 250
Canada1,400
 585
 250
 2,235
Finland444
 
 
 444
France200
 
 
 200
Netherlands200
 
 
 200
Singapore
 
 800
 800
Switzerland
 
 535
 535
Total U.S. branches and agency offices of foreign commercial banks3,294
 1,115
 1,885
 6,294
Total unsecured credit exposure$5,815
 $1,115
 $1,885
 $8,815

(1)Excludes unsecured investment credit exposure to U.S. government agencies and instrumentalities, government-sponsored enterprises, and supranational entities and does not include related accrued interest as of March 31, 2019.
The Bank’s investments may also include housing finance agency bonds issued by housing finance agencies located in Arizona, California, and Nevada, the three states that make up the Bank’s district. These bonds are federally taxable mortgage revenue bonds, collateralized by pools of first lien residential mortgage loans and credit-enhanced by bond insurance. The bonds held by the Bank are issued by the California Housing Finance Agency (CalHFA) and insured by either National Public Financial Guarantee (formerly MBIA Insurance Corporation), or Assured Guaranty Municipal Corporation (formerly Financial Security Assurance Incorporated). At March 31, 2019, all of the bonds were rated at least A by Moody’s or S&P.
For the Bank’s investments in housing finance agency bonds, which were issued by CalHFA, the gross unrealized losses were mainly due to an illiquid market, credit concerns regarding the underlying mortgage collateral, and credit concerns regarding the monoline insurance providers, causing these investments to be valued at a discount to their acquisition cost. The Bank independently modeled cash flows for the underlying collateral, using assumptions for default rates and loss severity that a market participant would deem reasonable, and concluded that the available credit support within the CalHFA structure more than offset the projected underlying collateral losses. The Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, all of the gross unrealized losses on the CalHFA bonds are temporary because the underlying collateral and credit enhancements were sufficient to protect the Bank from losses. As a result, the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities. If conditions in the housing and mortgage markets and general business and economic conditions deteriorate, the fair value of the CalHFA bonds may decline further and the Bank may experience OTTI in future periods.
The Bank’s MBS investments include PLRMBS, all of which were AAA-rated at the time of purchase, and agency residential MBS, which are backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or Ginnie Mae. Some of the PLRMBS were issued by and/or purchased from members, former members, or their affiliates. The Bank has investment credit limits and terms for these investments that do not differ for members and nonmembers. Regulatory policy limits total MBS investments to three times the Bank’s regulatory capital at the time of purchase. At March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank’s MBS portfolio was 280%267% of Bank regulatory capital (as determined in accordance with regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks). The Bank has not purchased any PLRMBS since the first quarter of 2008.

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The Bank executes all MBS investments without preference to the status of the counterparty or the issuer of the investment as a nonmember, member, or affiliate of a member. When the Bank executes non-MBS investments with members, the Bank may give consideration to their secured credit availability and the Bank’s advances price levels.
At March 31, 2019,2020, PLRMBS representing 15%12% of the amortized cost of the Bank’s MBS portfolio were labeled Alt-A by the issuer. These PLRMBS are generally collateralized by mortgage loans that are considered less risky than subprime loans but more risky than prime loans. These loans are generally made to borrowers with credit scores that are high enough to qualify for a prime mortgage loan, but the loans may not meet standard underwriting guidelines for documentation requirements, property type, or loan-to-value ratios.
As of March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank’s investment in MBS had gross unrealized losses totaling $72$380 million, $26$98 million of which were related to PLRMBS. These gross unrealized losses were primarily due to illiquidity in the MBS market and market expectations of the credit performance of loan collateral underlying these securities, which caused these assets to be valued at discounts to their amortized cost.
For its agency MBS, the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities because the Bank determined that the strength of the issuers’ guarantees through direct obligations or support from the U.S.

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government is sufficient to protect the Bank from losses. As a result, the Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019,2020, all of the gross unrealized losses on its agency MBS are temporary.
To assess whether it expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of its PLRMBS, the Bank performed a cash flow analysis for all of its PLRMBS as of March 31, 2019, using two third-party models. The FHLBanks’ OTTI Committee developed a short-term housing price forecast with projected changes ranging from a decrease of 6.0% to an increase of 14.0% over the 12-month period beginning January 1, 2019. For the vast majority of markets, the projected short-term housing price changes range from an increase of 2.0% to an increase of 6.0%. Thereafter, a unique path is projected for each geographic area based on an internally developed framework derived from historical data.
The projected cash flows are based on a number of assumptions and expectations, and the results of these models can vary significantly with changes in assumptions and expectations. The scenario of cash flows determined reflects a best-estimate scenario and includes a base case housing price forecast that reflects the expectations for near- and long-term housing price behavior.
In addition to evaluating its PLRMBS under a base case (or best estimate) scenario, the Bank performed a cash flow analysis for each of these securities under a more adverse housing price scenario. This more adverse scenario was primarily based on a short-term housing price forecast that was five percentage points below the base case forecast, followed by a recovery path with annual rates of housing price growth that were 33.0% lower than the base case.
The following table shows the base case scenario and what the credit-related OTTI loss would have been under the more adverse housing price scenario at March 31, 2019:
OTTI Analysis Under Base Case and Adverse Case Scenarios
            
 Housing Price Scenario
 Base Case Adverse Case
(Dollars in millions)
Number of
Securities

 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Credit-
Related
OTTI(1)

 
Number of
Securities

 
Unpaid
Principal
Balance

 
Credit-
Related
OTTI(1)

Other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS backed by loans classified at origination as:           
Alt-A, other8
 $200
 $(1) 11
 $278
 $(2)
Total8
 $200
 $(1) 11
 $278
 $(2)

(1)Amounts are for the three months ended March 31, 2019.

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For more information on the Bank’s OTTI analysis and reviews, see “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 6 – Other-Than-Temporary Impairment Analysis.”
The following table presents the ratings of the Bank’s PLRMBS as of March 31, 2019, by collateral type at origination and by year of securitization.
Unpaid Principal Balance of PLRMBS by Year of Securitization and Credit Rating
              
(In millions)             
March 31, 2019             
 Unpaid Principal Balance
 
Credit Rating(1) 
   
Collateral Type at Origination and Year of SecuritizationAAA
 AA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
Prime             
2008$
 $
 $
 $
 $79
 $
 $79
2007
 
 
 
 55
 164
 219
2006
 
 
 10
 8
 
 18
2005
 
 
 22
 11
 
 33
2004 and earlier
 54
 29
 95
 138
 2
 318
Total Prime
 54
 29
 127
 291
 166
 667
Alt-A, option ARM             
2007
 
 
 
 544
 
 544
2006
 
 
 
 110
 
 110
2005
 
 
 6
 74
 23
 103
Total Alt-A, option ARM
 
 
 6
 728
 23
 757
Alt-A, other             
2008
 
 
 
 56
 
 56
2007
 
 
 
 450
 307
 757
2006
 
 
 
 160
 159
 319
2005
 
 
 49
 745
 355
 1,149
2004 and earlier1
 89
 43
 30
 86
 7
 256
Total Alt-A, other1
 89
 43
 79
 1,497
 828
 2,537
Total par value$1
 $143
 $72
 $212
 $2,516
 $1,017
 $3,961

(1)The credit ratings used by the Bank are based on the lowest of Moody’s, S&P, or comparable Fitch ratings. Credit ratings of BB and lower are below investment grade.
The following table presents the ratings of the Bank’s other-than-temporarily impaired PLRMBS at March 31, 2019, by collateral type at origination and by year of securitization.

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Unpaid Principal Balance of Other-Than-Temporarily Impaired PLRMBS
by Year of Securitization and Credit Rating
            
(In millions)           
March 31, 2019           
 Unpaid Principal Balance
 
Credit Rating(1)
    
Collateral Type at Origination and Year of SecuritizationAA
 A
 BBB
 Below Investment Grade
 Unrated
 Total
Prime           
2008$
 $
 $
 $74
 $
 $74
2007
 
 
 30
 165
 195
2006
 
 
 8
 
 8
2005
 
 
 11
 
 11
2004 and earlier2
 
 
 18
 
 20
Total Prime2
 
 
 141
 165
 308
Alt-A, option ARM           
2007
 
 
 544
 
 544
2006
 
 
 110
 
 110
2005
 
 6
 74
 23
 103
Total Alt-A, option ARM
 
 6
 728
 23
 757
Alt-A, other           
2008
 
 
 56
 
 56
2007
 
 
 450
 307
 757
2006
 
 
 160
 159
 319
2005
 
 49
 745
 354
 1,148
2004 and earlier17
 14
 27
 44
 4
 106
Total Alt-A, other17
 14
 76
 1,455
 824
 2,386
Total par value$19
 $14
 $82
 $2,324
 $1,012
 $3,451

(1)The credit ratings used by the Bank are based on the lowest of Moody’s, S&P, or comparable Fitch ratings. Credit ratings of BB and lower are below investment grade.
For the Bank’s PLRMBS, the following table shows the amortized cost, estimated fair value, credit- and non-credit-related OTTI, performance of the underlying collateral based on the classification at the time of origination, and credit enhancement statistics by type of collateral and year of securitization. Credit enhancement is defined as the percentage of subordinated tranches and over-collateralization, if any, in a security structure that will absorb losses before the Bank will experience a loss on the security, expressed as a percentage of the underlying collateral balance. The credit enhancement figures include the additional credit enhancement required by the Bank (above the amounts required for an AAA rating by the credit rating agencies) for selected securities starting in late 2004, and for all securities starting in late 2005. The calculated weighted averages represent the dollar-weighted averages of all the PLRMBS in each category shown. The classification (prime or Alt-A) is based on the model used to run the estimated cash flows for the security, which may not necessarily be the same as the classification at the time of origination.

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PLRMBS Credit Characteristics
                  
(Dollars in millions)                 
March 31, 2019               
             
Underlying Collateral Performance and
Credit Enhancement Statistics
Collateral Type at Origination and Year of Securitization
Amortized
Cost

 
Gross
Unrealized
Losses(2)

 
Estimated
Fair
Value

 
Total
OTTI(1)

 
Non-
Credit-
Related
OTTI(1)

 
Credit-
Related
OTTI(1)

 
Weighted
Average
60+ Days
Collateral
Delinquency
Rate

 
Original
Weighted
Average
Credit
Support

 
Current
Weighted
Average
Credit
Support

Prime                 
2008$66
 $
 $75
 $
 $
 $
 18.52% 30.00% 8.75%
2007185
 (1) 192
 
 
 
 13.18
 23.24
 2.32
200616
 
 18
 
 
 
 12.25
 12.61
 3.94
200531
 
 32
 
 
 
 8.63
 12.07
 16.80
2004 and earlier316
 (3) 317
 
 
 
 6.61
 4.55
 14.98
Total Prime614
 (4) 634
 
 
 
 10.43
 14.29
 9.86
Alt-A, option ARM                 
2007447
 
 521
 
 
 
 14.33
 44.27
 11.49
200685
 
 100
 
 
 
 13.56
 44.96
 3.28
200535
 
 75
 
 
 
 13.07
 22.76
 4.97
Total Alt-A, option ARM567
 
 696
 
 
 
 14.05
 41.44
 9.41
Alt-A, other                 
200853
 
 54
 
 
 
 7.42
 31.80
 20.87
2007634
 (9) 674
 (1) 
 (1) 15.69
 26.91
 6.36
2006233
 
 279
 
 
 
 16.27
 18.37
 0.32
2005957
 (9) 1,019
 
 
 
 9.82
 14.37
 3.55
2004 and earlier252
 (4) 254
 
 
 
 9.01
 8.24
 19.64
Total Alt-A, other2,129
 (22) 2,280
 (1) 
 (1) 12.25
 18.38
 5.99
Total$3,310
 $(26) $3,610
 $(1) $
 $(1) 12.28% 22.10% 7.30%

(1)Amounts are for the year ended March 31, 2019.
(2)Represents total gross unrealized losses, including non-credit-related other-than-temporary impairment recognized in AOCI. The unpaid principal balance of Prime, Alt-A, option ARM, and Alt-A, other in a gross unrealized loss position was $247 million, $15 million, and $591 million, respectively, at March 31, 2019, and the amortized cost of Prime, Alt-A, option ARM, and Alt-A, other in a gross unrealized loss position was $247 million, $15 million, and $549 million, respectively, at March 31, 2019.
The following table presents a summary of the significant inputs used to determine potential OTTI credit losses in the Bank’s PLRMBS portfolio at March 31, 2019.

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Significant Inputs to OTTI Credit Analysis for All PLRMBS
        
March 31, 2019       
 Significant Inputs Current
 Prepayment Rates Default Rates Loss Severities Credit Enhancement
Year of SecuritizationWeighted Average % Weighted Average % Weighted Average % Weighted Average %
Prime       
200815.9 12.4 36.3 13.8
200713.8 4.6 20.2 8.9
200613.5 5.1 21.8 6.7
200520.5 1.5 19.4 13.5
2004 and earlier20.7 4.4 21.0 14.0
Total Prime18.7 6.7 25.3 13.4
Alt-A, option ARM       
20079.4 28.6 40.1 11.6
20068.6 30.9 39.8 3.4
20059.6 22.0 37.5 5.0
Total Alt-A, option ARM9.3 28.0 39.7 9.5
Alt-A, other       
200712.8 19.8 37.2 3.4
200611.6 21.4 38.9 5.0
200514.8 16.2 33.9 3.8
2004 and earlier18.9 9.8 30.5 20.1
Total Alt-A, other14.1 17.5 35.4 5.7
Total13.7 18.2 35.0 7.3

Credit enhancement is defined as the subordinated tranches and over-collateralization, if any, in a security structure that will generally absorb losses before the Bank will experience a loss on the security, expressed as a percentage of the underlying collateral balance. The calculated averages represent the dollar-weighted averages of all the PLRMBS investments in each category shown. The classification (prime or Alt-A) is based on the model used to run the estimated cash flows for the security, which may not necessarily be the same as the classification at the time of origination.
The following table presents the fair value of the Bank’s PLRMBS as a percentage of the unpaid principal balance by collateral type at origination and year of securitization.

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Fair Value of PLRMBS as a Percentage of Unpaid Principal Balance by Year of Securitization
          
Collateral Type at Origination and Year of SecuritizationMarch 31,
2019

 December 31,
2018

 September 30,
2018

 June 30,
2018

 March 31,
2018

Prime         
200895.18% 95.05% 96.77% 96.51% 96.04%
200787.27
 86.65
 88.53
 87.96
 86.73
200691.78
 92.05
 93.65
 93.78
 93.40
200598.88
 98.58
 100.33
 99.97
 100.36
2004 and earlier99.71
 99.46
 100.94
 100.65
 100.78
Weighted average of all Prime94.82
 94.54
 96.25
 95.97
 95.69
Alt-A, option ARM         
200795.69
 92.29
 93.72
 92.23
 91.46
200691.53
 91.66
 93.67
 92.89
 92.83
200573.03
 71.25
 73.46
 72.71
 70.79
Weighted average of all Alt-A, option ARM92.00
 89.28
 90.90
 89.54
 88.76
Alt-A, other         
200897.61
 96.82
 97.94
 97.49
 97.03
200789.09
 88.53
 88.38
 88.62
 89.69
200687.38
 87.00
 88.78
 88.99
 88.55
200588.67
 88.61
 90.79
 90.77
 90.83
2004 and earlier99.29
 98.93
 100.67
 100.31
 100.60
Weighted average of all Alt-A, other89.90
 89.64
 91.05
 91.12
 91.46
Weighted average of all PLRMBS91.13% 90.41% 91.92% 91.67% 91.71%
The Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, the gross unrealized losses on the PLRMBS that have not had an OTTI loss are primarily due to illiquidity in the PLRMBS market and market expectations of the credit performance of loan collateral underlying these securities, which caused these assets to be valued at discounts to their amortized cost. The Bank does not intend to sell these securities, it is not more likely than not that the Bank will be required to sell these securities before its anticipated recovery of the remaining amortized cost basis, and the Bank expects to recover the entire amortized cost basis of these securities. As a result, the Bank determined that, as of March 31, 2019, all of the gross unrealized losses on these securities are temporary. The Bank will continue to monitor and analyze the performance of these securities to assess the likelihood of the recovery of the entire amortized cost basis of these securities as of each balance sheet date.
If conditions in the housing and mortgage markets and general business and economic conditions deteriorate, the fair value of MBS may decline further, and the Bank may experience OTTI ofcredit losses on additional PLRMBS in future periods, as well as further impairment of PLRMBS that were identified as other-than-temporarily impaired as of March 31, 2019.prior to January 1, 2020. Additional future credit-related OTTIcredit losses could adversely affect the Bank’s earnings and retained earnings and its ability to pay dividends and repurchase capital stock. The Bank cannot predict whether it will be required to record additional credit-related OTTIan allowance for credit losses on its PLRMBS in the future.
The Bank has exposure to investment securities with interest rates indexed to LIBOR. The table below presents the unpaid principal balance of adjustable rate investment securities by interest rate index at March 31, 2020. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition” for more information on the LIBOR transition and on SOFR as an alternative market benchmark.
Adjustable Rate Investment Securities by Interest Rate Index
  
(In millions) 
March 31, 2020 
Interest Rate IndexMBS
LIBOR(1)
$6,970
Other125
Total adjustable rate investment securities(2)
$7,095
(1)Certain MBS with multiple indices where LIBOR is the majority index are included in this amount. A de minimis amount of LIBOR-indexed MBS are due in 2020 and 2021. LIBOR-indexed MBS of $7.0 billion are due in 2022 and thereafter.
(2)For more information on the Bank’s Transition Plan, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition.”
Derivative Counterparties. The Bank has also adopted credit policies and exposure limits for uncleared derivatives credit exposure. Over-the-counter derivatives may be either entered into directly with a counterparty (uncleared derivatives) or executed either with an executing dealer or on a swap execution facility and then cleared through a futures commission merchant (clearing agent) with a derivatives clearing organization (cleared derivatives).
Uncleared Derivatives. The Bank selects only highly rated derivative dealers and major banks (derivative dealer counterparties) that meet the Bank’s eligibility criteria to act as counterparties for its uncleared derivative activities. In addition, for all uncleared derivative transactions, the Bank has entered into master netting agreements and bilateral credit support agreements with all active derivative dealer counterparties that provide for delivery of

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collateral at specified levels to limit the Bank’s net unsecured credit exposure to these counterparties. Under these policies and agreements, the amount of unsecured credit exposure to an individual derivative dealer counterparty is set at zero (subject to a minimum transfer amount).
The Bank is subject to the risk of potential nonperformance by the counterparties to derivative agreements. A counterparty generally must deliver collateral to the Bank if the total market value of the Bank’s exposure to that counterparty rises above a specific trigger point. Currently, all of the Bank’s active uncleared derivative counterparties have a zero threshold. As a result of these risk mitigation initiatives, the Bank does not anticipate any credit losses on its uncleared derivative transactions with counterparties as of March 31, 2019.2020.
Cleared Derivatives. The Bank is subject to nonperformance by the derivatives clearing organizations (clearinghouses) and clearing agents. The requirement that the Bank post initial and variation margin through a clearing agent, to the clearinghouse, exposes the Bank to institutional credit risk in the event that the clearing agent or the clearinghouse fails to meet its obligations. The use of cleared derivatives, however, mitigates the Bank’s overall credit risk exposure because a central counterparty is substituted for individual counterparties. Variation

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margin and initial margin are posted for changes in the value and risk profile of cleared derivatives. The Bank does not anticipate any credit losses on its cleared derivatives as of March 31, 2019.2020.
The following table presents the Bank’s credit exposure to its derivative dealer counterparties at the dates indicated.
Credit Exposure to Derivative Dealer Counterparties
        
(In millions)       
March 31, 2019       
Counterparty Credit Rating(1)
Notional Amount
 Net Fair Value of Derivatives Before Collateral
 
Cash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Net Credit
Exposure to Counterparties

Asset positions with credit exposure:       
Uncleared derivatives       
A$352
 $1
 $(1) $
BBB3,226
 
 
 
Cleared derivatives(2)
70,942
 25
 207
 232
Liability positions with credit exposure:       
Uncleared derivatives       
AA3,713
 (18) 20
 2
A13,919
 (129) 140
 11
BBB1,264
 (13) 14
 1
Total derivative positions with credit exposure to nonmember counterparties93,416
 (134) 380
 246
Member institutions(3)
33
 
 
 
Total93,449
 $(134) $380
 $246
Derivative positions without credit exposure2,640
      
Total notional$96,089
      

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Credit Exposure to Derivative Dealer Counterparties
          
(In millions)         
March 31, 2020         
Counterparty Credit Rating(1)
Notional Amount
 Net Fair Value of Derivatives Before Collateral
 
Cash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Noncash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Net Credit
Exposure to Counterparties

Asset positions with credit exposure:         
Cleared derivatives(2)
$109,731
 $14
 $11
 $643
 $668
Liability positions with credit exposure:         
Uncleared derivatives         
AA121
 (13) 13
 
 
A7,201
 (899) 929
 
 30
BBB678
 (119) 123
 
 4
Total derivative positions with credit exposure to nonmember counterparties117,731
 (1,017) 1,076
 643
 702
Member institutions(3)
87
 3
 
 
 3
Total117,818
 $(1,014) $1,076
 $643
 $705
Derivative positions without credit exposure1,049
        
Total notional$118,867
        
December 31, 2018       
December 31, 2019         
Counterparty Credit Rating(1)
Notional Amount
 Net Fair Value of Derivatives Before Collateral
 
Cash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Net Credit
Exposure to Counterparties

Notional Amount
 Net Fair Value of Derivatives Before Collateral
 
Cash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Non-cash Collateral Pledged
to/ (from) Counterparty

 
Net Credit
Exposure to Counterparties

Asset positions with credit exposure:                
Uncleared derivatives       
AA$1,020
 $
 $
 $
A2,121
 17
 (16) 1
Liability positions with credit exposure:       
Uncleared derivatives                
A1,223
 (2) 2
 
$488
 $2
 $(2) $
 $
BBB1,915
 
 
 
493
 1
 (1) 
 
Cleared derivatives(2)
77,183
 (15) 199
 184
89,550
 8
 7
 381
 396
Liability positions with credit exposure:         
Uncleared derivatives         
AA1,263
 (46) 49
 
 3
A8,296
 (266) 279
 
 13
BBB713
 (41) 43
 
 2
Total derivative positions with credit exposure to nonmember counterparties83,462
 
 185
 185
100,803
 (342) 375
 381
 414
Member institutions(3)
12
 
 
 
46
 
 
 
 
Total83,474
 $
 $185
 $185
100,849
 $(342) $375
 $381
 $414
Derivative positions without credit exposure18,003
      223
        
Total notional$101,477
      $101,072
        
(1)
The credit ratings used by the Bank are based on the lower of Moody's or S&P ratings.
(2)Represents derivative transactions cleared with LCH Ltd, the Bank’s clearinghouse, which iswas rated A+AA- by S&P.&P with a Negative CreditWatch at March 31, 2020, and December 31, 2019.
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The increase or decrease in the credit exposure net of cash collateral, from one period to the next, may be affected by changes in several variables, such as the size and composition of the portfolio, market values of derivatives, and accrued interest.
Based on the master netting arrangements, its credit analyses, and the collateral requirements in place with each counterparty, the Bank does not expect to incur any credit losses on its derivative agreements.
The Bank primarily executes derivatives indexed to the Overnight Index Swap (OIS) rate and SOFR to manage interest rate risk and monitors marketwide efforts to address fallback language related to LIBOR-indexed derivative transactions.
The table below presents the notional amount of interest rate swaps by interest rate index broken out by the pay or receive leg at March 31, 2020.
LIBOR-Indexed Interest Rate Swaps by Termination Date by Interest Rate Index
    
(In millions)   
March 31, 2020   
Interest Rate IndexPay Leg Receive Leg
Fixed$57,946
 $27,682
LIBOR24,163
 22,441
SOFR14,881
 50,351
OIS20,810
 17,326
Total notional amount$117,800
 $117,800
The table below presents the notional amount of interest rate swaps with LIBOR exposure by termination date broken out by the pay or receive leg and further bifurcated by cleared and uncleared derivative transactions at March 31, 2020. Interest rate caps and floors indexed to LIBOR totaling $430 million terminate in 2021 and totaling $550 million terminate in 2022 and thereafter. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition” for more information on the LIBOR transition and on SOFR as an alternative market benchmark.
LIBOR-Indexed Interest Rate Swaps by Termination Date
        
(In millions)       
March 31, 2020       
 Pay Leg Receive Leg
Termination DateCleared Uncleared Cleared Uncleared
Terminates in 2020$17,438
 $420
 $12,163
 $224
Terminates in 20215,330
 352
 6,023
 317
Terminates in 2022 and thereafter(1)
423
 200
 2,776
 938
Total Notional Amount$23,191
 $972
 $20,962
 $1,479
(1)For more information on the Bank’s Transition Plan, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Financial Condition.”
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
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that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities, if applicable, and the reported amounts of income, expenses, gains, and losses during the reporting period. Changes in these judgments, estimates, and assumptions could potentially affect the Bank’s financial position and results of operations significantly. Although the Bank believes these judgments, estimates, and assumptions to be reasonably accurate, actual results may differ.
In the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K, the following accounting policies and estimates were identified as critical because they require the Bank to make subjective or complex judgments about matters that are inherently uncertain and because of the likelihood that materially different amounts would be reported under different conditions or using different assumptions. These policies and estimates are: estimating the allowance for credit losses on the advances and mortgage loan portfolios; accounting for derivatives; estimating fair values of investments classified as trading and AFS, derivatives and associated hedged items carried at fair value in accordance with the accounting for derivative instruments and associated hedging activities, and financial instruments carried at fair value under the fair value option; accounting for other-than-temporary impairment for investment securities; and estimating the prepayment speeds on MBS and mortgage loans for the accounting of amortization of premiums and accretion of discounts and credit losses previously recorded prior to the adoption of new accounting guidance related to the measurement of credit losses on MBS and mortgage loans.

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There have been no significant changes in the judgments and assumptions made during the first three months of 20192020 in applying the Bank’s critical accounting policies. These policies and the judgments, estimates, and assumptions are also described in “Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” and “Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data – Note 1 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies” in the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K and in “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1612 – Fair Value.”
Recently Issued Accounting Guidance and Interpretations
See “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 2 – Recently Issued and Adopted Accounting Guidance” for a discussion of recently issued accounting standards and interpretations.
Recent Developments
Final Rule on FHLBankAdvisory Bulletin (AB) 2019-03 Capital Requirements.Stock Management. On February 20,August 14, 2019, the Finance Agency issued a final rule, effective January 1,AB providing guidance that augments existing statutory and regulatory capital requirements to require each FHLBank to maintain a ratio of at least two percent of capital stock to total assets in order to help preserve the cooperative structure incentives that encourage members to remain fully engaged in the oversight of their investment in the FHLBank. Beginning in February 2020, that adopts, with amendments, the regulations of the Federal Housing Finance Board (Finance Board), predecessor to the Finance Agency pertainingwill consider the proportion of capital stock to theassets, measured on a daily average basis at monthend, when assessing each FHLBank’s capital requirements for the FHLBanks. The final rule carries over most of the prior Finance Board regulations without material change but substantively revises the credit risk component of the risk-based capital requirement, as well as the limitations on extensions of unsecured credit. The main revisions remove requirements that the Bank calculates credit risk capital charges and unsecured credit limits based on ratings issued by a nationally recognized statistical rating organization (NRSRO), and instead require that the Bank establishes and uses the Bank’s own internal rating methodology. The rule imposes a new credit risk capital charge for cleared derivatives. The final rule also revises the percentages used in the regulation’s tables to calculate credit risk capital charges for advances and for non-mortgage assets. The final rule also rescinds certain contingency liquidity requirements that were part of the Finance Board regulations, as these requirements are now addressed in an Advisory Bulletin on FHLBank Liquidity Guidance issued by the Finance Agency in 2018.management practices.
The Bank does not expect the rule willAB to have a material effectimpact on the Bank’s capital management practices, financial condition, or results of operations.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Final Rule on Reciprocal Deposits.Finance Agency Supervisory Letter. On February 4,September 27, 2019, the FDICFinance Agency issued a final rule, effective March 6, 2019, relatedSupervisory Letter to the treatmentFHLBanks that the Finance Agency stated is designed to ensure the FHLBanks will be able to identify and prudently manage the risks associated with the termination of reciprocal depositsLIBOR in a safe and sound manner. The Supervisory Letter provides among other things that, implements Section 202by March 31, 2020, the FHLBanks should limit and cease entering into new LIBOR-indexed financial assets, liabilities, and derivatives with maturities beyond December 31, 2021, for all product types except investments. With respect to investments, the FHLBanks must, by December 31, 2019, stop purchasing investments that reference LIBOR and mature after December 31, 2021. The Supervisory Letter also directs the FHLBanks to update their pledged collateral certification reporting requirements by March 31, 2020, in an effort to encourage members to distinguish LIBOR-indexed collateral maturing after December 31, 2021. The FHLBanks are expected to cease entering into LIBOR-indexed financial instruments maturing after December 31, 2021, by the deadlines specified in the Supervisory Letter, subject to limited exceptions granted by the Finance

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Agency under the Supervisor Letter for LIBOR-indexed products serving compelling mission, risk mitigating, and/or hedging purposes that do not currently have readily available alternatives.
As a result of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief,Supervisory Letter, the Bank’s Transition Plan was revised to limit new LIBOR transactions with maturities beyond the end of 2021 consistent with the limits set by the Supervisory Letter. On March 16, 2020, in light of market volatility, the Finance Agency extended the Bank’s ability to enter into LIBOR-indexed instruments that mature after December 31, 2021, from March 31, 2020, to June 30, 2020.
AB 2020-01 FHLBank Risk Management of AMA. On January 31, 2020, the Finance Agency released guidance on risk management of AMA. The guidance communicates the Finance Agency’s expectations with respect to an FHLBank’s funding of its members through the purchase of eligible mortgage loans and Consumer Protection Act.includes expectations that an FHLBank will have Board-established limits on AMA portfolios and management-established thresholds to serve as monitoring tools to manage AMA-related risk exposure. The final rule exempts,guidance provides that the board of an FHLBank should ensure that the bank serves as a liquidity source for certain insured depository institutions (depositories), certain reciprocal deposits – deposits acquiredmembers, and an FHLBank should ensure that its portfolio limits do not result in the FHLBank’s acquisition of mortgages from smaller members being “crowded out” by a depositorythe acquisition of mortgages from larger members. The AB contains the expectation that the board of an FHLBank should set limits on the size and growth of portfolios and on acquisitions from a networksingle participating financial institution. In addition, the guidance sets forth that the board of participating depositories that enables depositors to receive FDIC insurance coverage for the entire amountan FHLBank should consider concentration risk of their deposits – from being subject to FDIC restrictions on brokered deposits. Under the rule, well-capitalizedgeographic area, high-balance loans, and well-rated depositories are not required to treat reciprocal deposits as brokered deposits up to the lesser of 20% of their total liabilities or $5 billion. Reciprocal deposits held by depositories that are not well-capitalized and well-rated may also be excluded from brokered deposit treatment in certain circumstances.third-party loan originations.
The Bank continues to evaluate the potential impact of the final rule,this AB but currently doesdo not expect the rule will have a material effect on the Bank’sit to materially affect our financial condition or results of operations.
Finance Agency Final Rule on Stress Testing. On March 24, 2020, the Finance Agency issued a final rule, effective upon issuance, to amend its stress testing rule, consistent with section 401 of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act of 2018 (EGRRCPA). The final rule (i) raises the minimum threshold for entities regulated by the Finance Agency to conduct periodic stress tests from $10 billion to $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, (ii) removes the requirements for FHLBanks to conduct stress testing, and (iii) removes the adverse scenario from the list of required scenarios. FHLBanks are currently excluded from this regulation because no FHLBank has total consolidated assets over $250 billion, but the Finance Agency reserved its discretion to require an FHLBank with total consolidated assets below the $250 billion threshold to conduct stress testing. These amendments align the Finance Agency’s stress testing rule with rules adopted by other financial institution regulators that implement the Dodd-Frank Act stress testing requirements, as amended by EGRRCPA.
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. The CARES Act was passed by the Senate on March 25, 2020, and by the House on March 27, 2020, and the President signed it into law the same day. The $2.2 trillion package is the largest stimulus bill in U.S. history. The CARES Act is in addition to previous relief legislation passed by Congress in March 2020. The legislation provides the following:
Assistance to businesses, states, and municipalities.
Creates a loan program for small businesses, non-profits, and physician practices that can be forgiven through employee retention incentives.
Provides the Treasury Secretary authority to make loans or loan guarantees to states, municipalities, and eligible businesses and loosens some regulations imposed through the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).
Direct payments to some individual taxpayers and their children.
Expands eligibility for unemployment insurance and payment amounts.
Includes mortgage forbearance provisions and a foreclosure moratorium.

Additional phases of the CARES Act or other COVID-19 relief legislation may be enacted by Congress. The Bank is evaluating the potential impact of the CARES Act on its business, including its impact to the U.S. economy (which is unknown), the possible acceptance of Small Business Administration (SBA) loans as a new collateral source for the Bank’s advances, and impacts to mortgages held or serviced by the Bank’s members and that the Bank accepts as collateral.

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Additional COVID-19 Legislative and Regulatory Developments. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, governmental agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Association, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Finance Agency, and state governments and agencies, have taken actions to provide various forms of relief from and guidance regarding the financial, operational, credit, market, and other effects of the pandemic, some of which may have a direct or indirect impact on the Bank and its members. Many of these actions are temporary in nature. The Bank is monitoring these actions and guidance and evaluating their potential impact on the Bank.
Finance Agency Supervisory Letter – Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) Loans as Collateral for FHLBank Advances.On April 23, 2020, the Finance Agency issued a Supervisory Letter (PPP Supervisory Letter) permitting the FHLBanks to accept PPP loans as collateral for advances as agency securities, given the SBA’s 100% guarantee of the unpaid principal balance. On April 20, 2020, the SBA published its third interim final rule related to PPP loans, which explicitly waived certain regulatory requirements that must be satisfied before a member could however, enhance depositories’ liquidity by increasingpledge PPP loans to the attractivenessFHLBanks as collateral. The PPP Supervisory Letter establishes a series of deposits that exceed FDIC insuranceconditions under which the FHLBanks may accept PPP loans as collateral, which conditions focus on the financial condition of members, collateral discounts, and pledge dollar limits. This could

The Bank is evaluating the potential impact of the PPP Supervisory Letter, including the determination whether to accept PPP loans as collateral and the terms on which the Bank would accept such collateral, but does not expect the PPP Supervisory Letter to materially affect the demand for certain advance products.its financial condition or results of operations.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Aggregate Contractual Commitments
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements and Other Commitments
In accordance with regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks, each FHLBank, including the Bank, is jointly and severally liable for the FHLBank System’s consolidated obligations issued under Section 11(a) of the FHLBank Act, and in accordance with the FHLBank Act, each FHLBank, including the Bank, is jointly and severally liable for consolidated obligations issued under Section 11(c) of the FHLBank Act. The joint and several liability regulation authorizes the Finance Agency to require any FHLBank to repay all or a portion of the principal or interest on consolidated obligations for which another FHLBank is the primary obligor.

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The par value of the outstanding consolidated obligations of the FHLBanks was $1,010.9$1,174.7 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, and $1,031.6$1,025.9 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. The par value of the Bank’s participation in consolidated obligations was $102.5$117.1 billion at March 31, 2019,2020, and $101.6$98.8 billion at December 31, 2018.2019. The Bank had committed to the issuance of $25$1,410 million and $350$805 million in consolidated obligations at March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018,2019, respectively.
In addition, in the ordinary course of business, the Bank engages in financial transactions that, in accordance with U.S. GAAP, are not recorded on the Bank’s StatementStatements of Condition or may be recorded on the Bank’s StatementStatements of Condition in amounts that are different from the full contract or notional amount of the transactions. For example, the Bank routinely enters into commitments to extend advances and issues standby letters of credit. These commitments and standby letters of credit may represent future cash requirements of the Bank, although the standby letters of credit usually expire without being drawn upon. Standby letters of credit are subject to the same underwriting and collateral requirements as advances made by the Bank. At March 31, 2019,2020, the Bank had no$24 million in advance commitments and $18.9$20.2 billion in standby letters of credit outstanding. At December 31, 2018,2019, the Bank had no advance commitments and $18.1$21.6 billion in standby letters of credit outstanding.
For additional information, see “Item 1. Financial Statements – Note 1713 – Commitments and Contingencies.”

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ITEM 3.QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Market risk is defined as the risk to the Bank’s market value of capital and future earnings (excluding the impact of any cumulative net gains or losses on derivatives and associated hedged items and on financial instruments carried at fair value) as a result of movements in market interest rates, interest rate spreads, interest rate volatility, and other market factors (market rate factors). This profile reflects the Bank’s objective of maintaining a conservative asset-liability mix and its commitment to providing value to its members through products and dividends without subjecting their investments in Bank capital stock to significant market risk.
The Bank’s Risk Management Policy includes a market risk management objective aimed at maintaining a relatively low adverse exposure of the market value of capital and future earnings (excluding the impact of any cumulative net gains or losses on derivatives and associated hedged items and on financial instruments carried at fair value) to changes in market rate factors. See “Total Bank Market Risk” below.
Market risk identification and measurement are primarily accomplished through market value of capital sensitivity analyses and projected earnings and adjusted return on capital sensitivity analyses. The Risk Management Policy approved by the Bank’s Board of Directors establishes market risk policy limits and market risk measurement standards at the total Bank level as well as at the business segment level. Additional guidelines approved by the Bank’s Enterprise Risk Committee apply to the Bank’s two business segments, the advances-related business and the mortgage-related business. These guidelines provide limits that are monitored at the segment level and are consistent with the Bank’s policy limits. Market risk is managed for each business segment on a daily basis, as discussed below in “Segment Market Risk.” Compliance with Bank policies and guidelines is reviewed by the Bank’s Board of Directors on a regular basis, along with a corrective action plan if applicable.
Total Bank Market Risk
Market Value of Capital Sensitivity
The Bank uses market value of capital sensitivity (the interest rate sensitivity of the net fair value of all assets, liabilities, and interest rate exchange agreements) as an important measure of the Bank’s exposure to changes in interest rates.
The Bank’s market value of capital sensitivity policy limits the potential adverse impact of an instantaneous parallel shift of a plus or minus 100-basis-point change in interest rates from current rates (base case) to no worse than 4.0% of the estimated market value of capital. In addition, the policy limits the potential adverse impact of an instantaneous plus or minus 100-basis-point change in interest rates measured from interest rates that are 200 basis

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points above or below the base case to no worse than 6.0% of the estimated market value of capital. In the case where a market risk sensitivity compliance metric cannot be estimated with a parallel shift in interest rates because of prevailing low interest rates, the sensitivity metric is not reported. The Bank’s measured market value of capital sensitivity was within the policy limits as of March 31, 2019.2020.
To determine the Bank’s estimated risk sensitivities to interest rates for the market value of capital sensitivity, the Bank uses a third-party proprietary asset and liability system to calculate estimated market values under alternative interest rate scenarios. The system analyzes all of the Bank’s financial instruments, including derivatives, on a transaction-level basis using sophisticated valuation models with consistent and appropriate behavioral assumptions and current position data. The system also includes a third-party mortgage prepayment model.
At least annually, the Bank reexamines the major assumptions and methodologies used in the model, including interest rate curves, spreads for discounting, and mortgage prepayment assumptions. The Bank also compares the mortgage prepayment assumptions in the third-party model to other sources, including actual mortgage prepayment history.
The table below presents the sensitivity of the market value of capital (the market value of all of the Bank’s assets, liabilities, and associated interest rate exchange agreements, with mortgage assets valued using market spreads implied by current market prices) to changes in interest rates. The table presents the estimated percentage change in

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the Bank’s market value of capital that would be expected to result from changes in interest rates under different interest rate scenarios, using market spread assumptions.
Market Value of Capital Sensitivity
Estimated Percentage Change in Market Value of Bank Capital
for Various Changes in Interest Rates
     
Interest Rate Scenario(1)
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018 
+200 basis-point change above current rates–3.0%–3.3%
+100 basis-point change above current rates–1.2 –1.4 
–100 basis-point change below current rates+1.1 +1.1 
–200 basis-point change below current rates+2.9 +2.6 
Market Value of Capital Sensitivity
Estimated Percentage Change in Market Value of Bank Capital
for Various Changes in Interest Rates
Interest Rate Scenario(1)
March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
+200 basis-point change above current rates+2.6%–2.4%
+100 basis-point change above current rates+1.9–1.1
–100 basis-point change below current rates(2)
+11.5+1.1
–200 basis-point change below current rates(2)
+12.7+6.9
(1)Instantaneous change from actual rates at dates indicated.
(2)Interest rates for each maturity are limited to non-negative rates.
The Bank’s estimates of the sensitivity of the market value of capital to changes in interest rates as of March 31, 2019, are comparable to2020, show considerably more positive sensitivity compared with the estimates as of December 31, 2018.2019. As a result of the uncertainty associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been significant changes in interest rates and spread relationships. LIBOR interest rates as of March 31, 2019,2020, were 21109 basis points lower for the 1-yearone-year term, 29120 basis points lower for the 5-yearfive-year term, and 30117 basis points lower for the 10-yearten-year term. In March 2020, the ten-year Treasury hit an all-time low of 0.54%. In addition to the material changes in interest rates, price changes in two segments of the Bank’s mortgage portfolio materially impacted the Bank’s market value sensitivity profile. Prices on the Bank’s fixed rate mortgage loans purchased under the MPF Program increased, resulting in the asset spread relative to pricing benchmark to materially decline. The favorable spread change improves the market value of the Bank’s mortgage loans. If interest rates increase, these loans will remain outstanding for a longer period of time, and the favorable spread difference will exist for a longer period of time resulting in a less detrimental impact on the Bank’s projected market value. The Bank investment portfolio also includes fixed rate multifamily MBS that are swapped to overnight assets at time of trade. Given the prepayment protection provisions embedded in these securities, the MBS cashflows are consistent across alternative interest rate scenarios. For these securities, the asset spread to the pricing benchmark increased, which caused the decline in prices in rising rate scenarios to lessen. The change in the declining market value sensitivity profile is driven by the historically low interest rate environment. Given the significant decline in interest rates during the first quarter of 2020, interest rates on a subset of the Bank’s floating rate instruments cannot decrease to the same extent that interest rates in the rising rate scenarios can increase because of embedded interest rate floors.
The Bank’s Risk Management Policy provides guidelines for the payment of dividends and the repurchase of excess capital stock based on the ratio of the Bank’s estimated market value of total capital to par value of capital stock. If this ratio at the end of any quarter is: (i) less than 100% but greater than or equal to 90%, any dividend would be limited to an annualized rate no greater than the daily average of the Federal funds effective rate for the applicable quarter (subject to certain conditions), and any excess capital stock repurchases would not exceed $500 million (subject to certain conditions); (ii) less than 90% but greater than or equal to 70%, any dividend and any excess capital stock repurchases would be subject to the same limitations and conditions as in (i) above, except that any excess capital stock repurchases would not exceed 4% of the Bank’s outstanding capital stock as of the repurchase date; and (iii) less than 70%, the Bank would not pay a dividend, not repurchase excess capital stock (but continue to redeem excess capital stock as provided in the Bank’s Capital Plan)capital plan), limit the acquisition of certain assets, and review the Bank’s risk policies. A decision by the Board of Directors to declare or not declare any dividend or repurchase any excess capital stock is a discretionary matter and is subject to the requirements and restrictions of the FHLBank Act and applicable requirements under the regulations governing the operations of the FHLBanks.

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The ratio of the Bank’s estimated market value of total capital to par value of capital stock was 221%198% as of March 31, 2019.2020.

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Adjusted Return on Capital – The adjusted return on capital is a measure used by the Bank to assess financial performance. The adjusted return on capital is based on current period economic earnings that exclude the effects of unrealized net gains or losses resulting from the Bank’s derivatives and associated hedged items and from financial instruments carried at fair value, which will generally reverse through changes in future valuations and settlements of contractual interest cash flows over the remaining contractual terms to maturity or by the call or put date of the assets and liabilities held under the fair value option, hedged assets and liabilities, and derivatives. Economic earnings also exclude the interest expense on mandatorily redeemable capital stock and the 20% of net income allocated to the Bank’s restricted retained earnings account in accordance with the FHLBanks’ Joint Capital Enhancement Agreement. Economic earnings exclude these amounts in order to more accurately reflect the amount of earnings that may be available to be paid as dividends to shareholders.
The Bank limits the sensitivity of projected financial performance through a Board of Directors policy limit on projected adverse changes in the adjusted return on capital. The Bank’s adjusted return on capital sensitivity policy limits the potential adverse impact of an instantaneous parallel shift of a plus or minus 200-basis-point change in interest rates from current rates (base case) to no worse than –120 basis points from the base case projected adjusted return on capital. Given the current low interest rate environment, in the downward shift interest rates were limited to non-negative rates. With the indicated interest rate shifts, the adjusted return on capital for the projected 12-month horizon would be expected to decrease by 8517 basis points in the –200 basis pointsbasis-points scenario, which iswell within the policy limit of –120 basis points.
Duration Gap – Duration gap is the difference between the estimated durations (market value sensitivity) of assets and liabilities (including the impact of interest rate exchange agreements) and reflects the extent to which estimated maturity and repricing cash flows for assets and liabilities are matched. The Bank monitors duration gap analysis at the total Bank level and does not have a policy limit.
Total Bank Duration Gap Analysis
              
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018March 31, 2020 December 31, 2019
Amount
(In millions)

 
Duration Gap(1)
(In months)

 
Amount
(In millions)

 
Duration Gap(1)
(In months) 

Amount
(In millions)

 
Duration Gap(1)
(In months)

 
Amount
(In millions)

 
Duration Gap(1)
(In months) 

Assets$110,577
 4
 $109,326
 4
$124,870
 3
 $106,842
 3
Liabilities103,931
 3
 102,796
 3
118,463
 3
 100,101
 2
Net$6,646
 1
 $6,530
 1
$6,407
 
 $6,741
 1
(1)Duration gap values include the impact of interest rate exchange agreements.
Segment Market Risk. The financial performance and interest rate risks of each business segment are managed within prescribed guidelines and policy limits.
Advances-Related Business – Interest rate risk arises from the advances-related business primarily through the use of shareholder-contributed capital and retained earnings to fund fixed rate investments of targeted amounts and maturities. In general, advances result in very little net interest rate risk for the Bank because most fixed rate advances with original maturities greater than three months and all advances with embedded options are simultaneously hedged with an interest rate swap or option with terms offsettingto offset the advance. The interest rate swap or option generally is maintained as a hedge for the life of the advance. These hedged advances effectively create a pool of variable rate assets, which, in combination with the strategy of raising debt swapped to variable rate liabilities, creates an advances portfolio with low net interest rate risk.
Money market investments used for liquidity management generally have maturities of one month or less. In addition, to increase the Bank’s liquidity position, the Bank invests in non-MBS agencyTreasury securities, generally with terms of less than three years. These fixed rate investments may beare swapped to variable rate or fixed rate, and the interest rate risk resulting from the fixed rate coupon is hedged with an interest rate swap or fixed rate debt.

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investments.
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generally to invest 50% of capital in short-term investments (maturities of three months or less) and 50% in intermediate-term investments (a laddered portfolio of investments with maturities of up to four years). However, this strategy may be altered from time to time depending on market conditions. The strategy to invest 50% of capital in short-term assets is intended to mitigate the market value of capital risks associated with the potential repurchase or redemption of excess capital stock. Excess capital stock usually results from a decline in a borrower’s outstanding advances or by a membership termination. Under the Bank’s capital plan, capital stock, when repurchased or redeemed, is required to be repurchased or redeemed at its par value of $100 per share, subject to certain regulatory and statutory limits. The strategy to invest 50% of capital in a laddered portfolio of investments with short to intermediate maturities is intended to take advantage of the higher earnings available from a generally positively sloped yield curve, when intermediate-term investments generally have higher yields than short-term investments.
The Bank updates the repricing and maturity gaps for actual asset, liability, and derivative transactions that occur in the advances-related segment each day. The Bank regularly compares the targeted repricing and maturity gaps to the actual repricing and maturity gaps to identify rebalancing needs for the targeted gaps. On a weekly basis, the Bank evaluates the projected impact of expected maturities and scheduled repricings of assets, liabilities, and interest rate exchange agreements on the interest rate risk of the advances-related segment. The analyses are prepared under base case and alternate interest rate scenarios to assess the effect of options embedded in the advances, related financing, and hedges. These analyses are also used to measure and manage potential reinvestment risk (when the remaining term of advances is shorter than the remaining term of the financing) and potential refinancing risk (when the remaining term of advances is longer than the remaining term of the financing).
Because of the short-term and variable rate nature of the assets, liabilities, and derivatives of the advances-related business, the Bank’s interest rate risk guidelines address the amounts of net assets that are expected to mature or reprice in a given period. The market value sensitivity analyses and net interest income simulations are also used to identify and measure risk and variances to the target interest rate risk exposure in the advances-related segment.
Mortgage-Related Business – The Bank’s mortgage assets include MBS, most of which are classified as HTM or AFS, with a small amount classified as trading, and mortgage loans held for portfolio purchased under the MPF Program. The Bank is exposed to interest rate risk from the mortgage-related business because the principal cash flows of the mortgage assets and the liabilities that fund them are not exactly matched through time and across all possible interest rate scenarios, given the impacteffect of mortgage prepayments and the existence of interest rate caps on certain adjustable rate MBS.
The Bank manages the interest rate risk and market risk of the mortgage-related segment through its investment in low risk assets and selected funding and hedging strategies. The total carrying value of MBS and mortgage loans at March 31, 2019,2020, was $22.0$20.9 billion, including $18.8$17.7 billion in MBS and $3.2 billion in mortgage loans. The total carrying value of MBS and mortgage loans at December 31, 2018,2019, was $21.0$21.1 billion, including $17.9$17.8 billion in MBS and $3.1$3.3 billion in mortgage loans. Floating rate securities, and fixed rate multifamily securities that have been converted to floating rate through the use of interest rate swaps, were $15.3$15.2 billion, or 70%73%, of MBS and mortgage loans at March 31, 2019,2020, and $14.2$15.1 billion, or 68%72%, of MBS and mortgage loans at December 31, 2018.2019. Intermediate and long-term fixed rate assets, whose interest rate and market risks have been partially offset through the use of fixed rate non-callable debt, fixed rate callable debt, and certain interest rate swaps whose characteristics mimic that of fixed rate callable debt, were $6.7$5.7 billion, or 30%27%, of MBS and mortgage loans, at March 31, 2019,2020, and $6.8$6.0 billion, or 32%28%, of MBS and mortgage loans at December 31, 2018.2019.
The estimated market risk of the mortgage-related business is managed both at the time an asset is purchased and on an ongoing basis for the total portfolio. At the time of purchase (for all significant mortgage asset acquisitions), the Bank analyzes the estimated earnings sensitivity and estimated market value sensitivity, taking into consideration the estimated mortgage prepayment sensitivity of the mortgage assets and anticipated funding and hedging activities under various interest rate scenarios. The related funding and hedging transactions are executed at or close to the time of purchase of a mortgage asset.

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mortgage portfolio market risk profile. Periodically, the Bank performs more in-depth analyses, which include an analysis of the impacts of non-parallel shifts in the yield curve and assessments of the impacts of unanticipated mortgage prepayment behavior. Based on these analyses, the Bank may take actions to rebalance the mortgage portfolio’s market risk profile. These rebalancing strategies may include entering into new funding and hedging transactions, forgoing or modifying certain funding or hedging transactions normally executed with new mortgage purchases, or terminating certain funding and hedging transactions for the mortgage asset portfolio.
The Bank manages the estimated interest rate risk associated with mortgage assets, including mortgage prepayment risk, through a combination of debt issuance and derivatives. The Bank may obtain funding through callable and non-callable FHLBank System debt and may execute derivative transactions to achieve principal cash flow patterns and market value sensitivities for the liabilities and derivatives that provide a significant offset to the interest rate and mortgage prepayment risks associated with the mortgage assets. Debt issued to finance mortgage assets may be fixed rate debt, callable fixed rate debt, or adjustable rate debt. Derivatives may be used as temporary hedges of anticipated debt issuance or long-term hedges of debt used to finance the mortgage assets. The derivatives used to hedge the interest rate risk of fixed rate mortgage assets generally may be callable and non-callable pay-fixed interest rate swaps. Derivatives may also be used to offset the interest rate cap risk embedded in adjustable rate MBS.
As discussed above in “Total Bank Market Risk Market Value of Capital Sensitivity”Sensitivity,” the Bank uses market value of capital sensitivity as a primary market value metric for measuring the Bank’s exposure to interest rates. The Bank’s interest rate risk policies and guidelines for the mortgage-related business address the market value of capital sensitivity of the assets, liabilities, and derivatives of the mortgage-related business.
The following table presents results of the estimated market value of capital sensitivity analysis attributable to the mortgage-related business as of March 31, 2019,2020, and December 31, 2018.2019.
Market Value of Capital Sensitivity
Estimated Percentage Change in Market Value of Bank Capital
Attributable to the Mortgage-Related Business for Various Changes in Interest Rates
     
Interest Rate Scenario(1)
March 31, 2019 December 31, 2018 
+200 basis-point change–0.7%–1.2%
+100 basis-point change–0.2 –0.4 
–100 basis-point change+0.0 +0.2 
–200 basis-point change+0.8 +0.8 
Market Value of Capital Sensitivity
Estimated Percentage Change in Market Value of Bank Capital
Attributable to the Mortgage-Related Business for Various Changes in Interest Rates
Interest Rate Scenario(1)
March 31, 2020December 31, 2019
+200 basis-point change+4.1%–0.6%
+100 basis-point change+2.5–0.2
–100 basis-point change(2)
+5.6+0.2
–200 basis-point change(2)
+6.1+3.2

(1)Instantaneous change from actual rates at dates indicated.
(2)Interest rates for each maturity are limited to non-negative rates.
ForThe explanations for the mortgage-related business, thechanges in Bank’s estimates of the sensitivity of the market value of capital to changes in interest rates as ofattributable to the mortgage-related business from December 31, 2019, to March 31, 2019,2020, are comparable to the estimatessame as of December 31, 2018. LIBOR interest rates as of March 31, 2019, were 21 basis points lowerthe explanations for the 1-year term, 29 basis points lower forsensitivity of the 5-year term,market value of capital attributable to all of the Bank’s assets, liabilities, and 30 basis points lower for the 10-year term.associated interest rate exchange agreements.

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ITEM 4.CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The senior management of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (Bank) is responsible for establishing and maintaining a system of disclosure controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Bank in the reports filed or submitted under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (1934 Act) is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the rules and forms of the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Bank’s disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Bank in the reports that it files or submits under the 1934 Act is accumulated and communicated to the Bank’s management, including its principal executive officer or officers and principal financial officer or officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the Bank’s disclosure controls and procedures, the Bank’s management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives, and the Bank’s management necessarily is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of controls and procedures.
Management of the Bank has evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of its disclosure controls and procedures with the participation of the president and chief executive officer and executive vice president and chief financial officer as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, the Bank’s president and chief executive officer and executive vice president and chief financial officer have concluded that the Bank’s disclosure controls and procedures were effective at a reasonable assurance level as of the end of the period covered by this report.
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
During the three months ended March 31, 2019,2020, there were no changes in the Bank’s internal control over financial reporting that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Bank’s internal control over financial reporting.
Consolidated Obligations
The Bank’s disclosure controls and procedures include controls and procedures for accumulating and communicating information in compliance with the Bank’s disclosure and financial reporting requirements relating to the joint and several liability for the consolidated obligations of the Federal Home Loan Banks (FHLBanks). Because the FHLBanks are independently managed and operated, the Bank’s management relies on information that is provided or disseminated by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (Finance Agency), the Office of Finance, and the other FHLBanks, as well as on published FHLBank credit ratings, in determining whether the joint and several liability regulation is reasonably likely to result in a direct obligation for the Bank or whether it is reasonably possible that the Bank will accrue a direct liability.
The Bank’s management also relies on the operation of the joint and several liability regulation. The joint and several liability regulation requires that each FHLBank file with the Finance Agency a quarterly certification that it will remain capable of making full and timely payment of all of its current obligations, including direct obligations, coming due during the next quarter. In addition, if an FHLBank cannot make such a certification or if it projects that it may be unable to meet its current obligations during the next quarter on a timely basis, it must file a notice with the Finance Agency. Under the joint and several liability regulation, the Finance Agency may order any FHLBank to make principal and interest payments on any consolidated obligations of any other FHLBank, or allocate the outstanding liability of an FHLBank among all remaining FHLBanks on a pro rata basis in proportion to each FHLBank’s participation in all consolidated obligations outstanding or on any other basis.

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PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1.LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco (Bank) may be subject to various legal proceedings arising in the normal course of business.
On March 28, 2019, For information regarding the two lawsuits filed by former Bank officer, Lawrence H. Parks, aand another former officer of the Bank, along with another former employee, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, against the Bank, and certain of the Bank’s current and former directors, the Bank’s former chief executive officer, one current employee, and two employees. The plaintiffs’ suit alleges breach of contract arising out of a mediation relating to threatened claims made byone former employee, see “Part I. Item 3. Legal Proceedings” in the plaintiffs of alleged: (i) race discrimination under the D.C. Human Rights Act against the Bank, (ii) aiding and abetting discrimination under the D.C. Human Rights Act against the chief executive officer and members of the Board, and (iii) defamation against two Bank employees (and the Bank as their employer), and negligent hiring/supervision of the chief executive officer against the Bank and its Board of Directors. The plaintiffs seek damages not to exceed $3.6 million. We believe this lawsuit is without merit and intend to vigorously defend against this claim.Bank’s 2019 Form 10-K.
After consultation with legal counsel, the Bank is not aware of any other legal proceedings that are expected to have a material effect on its financial condition or results of operations or that are otherwise material to the Bank.
ITEM 1A.RISK FACTORS
Natural disasters, pandemics, terrorist attacks, or other catastrophic events could adversely affect the Bank’s operations, business activities, results of operations and financial condition.
Natural disasters, pandemics, or other widespread health emergencies (such as the recent outbreak of COVID-19), terrorist attacks, or other unanticipated or catastrophic events could create economic and financial disruptions and uncertainties, which may lead to reduced demand for advances and an increased risk of credit losses for the Bank and may adversely affect its cost of funding or access to funding. These events may also lead to operational difficulties that could adversely affect the ability of the Bank and the Office of Finance to conduct and manage their businesses. Any of these factors could adversely affect the Bank’s business activities and results of operations.
In particular, the current COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the credit markets in which the Bank operates, and the decline in interest rates has adversely affected the fair values of the Bank’s assets, the valuation of collateral, and the Bank’s net income and capital. A prolonged COVID-19 outbreak may continue to have adverse effects on the Bank’s profitability and financial condition. Market volatility and economic stress during a prolonged COVID-19 outbreak may adversely affect the Bank’s access to the debt markets and possibly affect the Bank’s liquidity. The Bank’s decision to have all employees work remotely in accordance with local “stay-at-home” orders may create additional cybersecurity risks and operational challenges that could affect the Bank’s ability to conduct business or increase the risk of operational incidents and errors. In addition, the Bank relies on vendors and other third parties to perform certain critical services, and if one of our critical vendors or third parties experiences a failure or any interruption to their business due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bank may be unable to conduct and manage its business effectively. The outlook for the remainder of 2020 is uncertain, and there is a possibility that if the Federal Reserve keeps interest rates low or even uses negative interest rates, this could significantly affect the Bank’s business and profitability.
For a discussion of other risk factors, see “Part I. Item 1A. Risk Factors” in the Bank’s 2018 Form 10-K. There have been no material changes from the risk factors disclosed in the “Part I. Item 1A. Risk Factors” section of the Bank’s 20182019 Form 10-K.
ITEM 5.OTHER INFORMATION
As previously reported, Kenneth C. Miller, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the Bank, notified the Bank of his decision to retire from the Bank in the second quarter of 2020. On May 7, 2020, Mr. Miller notified the Bank of his decision to revise his retirement date to the fourth quarter of 2020, after the Bank’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the period ending September 30, 2020, is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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ITEM 6.    EXHIBITS

Exhibit No. Description
   
 BylawsDescription of the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco, as amended and restated effective April 15, 2019
Executive Incentive Plan, as amended and restated March 29, 2019 (marked); Appendices I-III, as approved December 23, 2016; Appendix IV, as approved December 1, 2017; and Appendix V, as approved December 7, 2018Registered Securities
   
  Certification of the Acting President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
  Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
  Certification of the Acting President and Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
  Certification of the Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
   
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, on May 3, 2019.12, 2020.
 
 Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco
  
 
/S/ J. GREGORYSEIBLYTEPHEN P. TRAYNOR
 J. Gregory SeiblyStephen P. Traynor
Acting
President and Chief Executive Officer
  
 
/S/ KENNETH C. MILLER
 
Kenneth C. Miller Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial Officer)


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