ATLANTA, July 27, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (the Bank) today released preliminary unaudited financial highlights for the quarter ended June 30, 2023. All numbers reported below for the second quarter of 2023 are approximate until the Bank announces unaudited financial results in its Form 10-Q, which is expected to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on or about August 11, 2023.

Operating Results for the Second Quarter 2023

• Net income for the second quarter of 2023 was $174 million, an increase of $147 million, compared to net income of $27 million for the same period in 2022. The increase in net income was primarily due to a $163 million increase in net interest income.
  
  
• The increases in net interest income and net income were primarily due to an increase in interest rates which impacted income from interest-earning assets more than the expense from interest-bearing liabilities, as well as an increase in average advance balances. Average advance balances were $154.5 billion for the second quarter of 2023, compared to $67.2 billion for the same period in 2022. The increase in average balances was primarily driven by higher demand from members driven by the liquidity concerns in the financial markets which began in mid-March 2023 and continued into the beginning of the second quarter of 2023.
  
  
• The Bank's second quarter 2023 performance resulted in an annualized return on average equity (ROE) of 7.23 percent as compared to 1.96 percent for the same period in 2022. The increase in ROE was primarily due to the increase in net income during the quarter.
  

Financial Condition Highlights

• Total assets were $174.3 billion as of June 30, 2023, an increase of $22.6 billion from December 31, 2022. The increase in total assets was primarily due to a $17.5 billion increase in investments.
  
  
• Advances outstanding were $112.4 billion as of June 30, 2023, an increase of $2.8 billion from December 31, 2022.
  

• Total capital was $7.9 billion as of June 30, 2023, an increase of $299 million from December 31, 2022. The increase in capital stock was primarily due to an increase in advances which requires issuance of additional activity-based stock, pursuant to the Bank’s capital plan. Retained earnings did not vary significantly, increasing to $2.4 billion as of June 30, 2023, compared to $2.3 billion as of December 31, 2022.
  
  
• As of June 30, 2023, the Bank was in compliance with all regulatory capital and liquidity requirements.
  

Affordable Housing and Community Investment

• The Bank is required to set aside 10 percent of its net income to support the affordable housing and economic development needs of communities served by its members. For the first six months ended June 30, 2023, the Bank has accrued $33 million to its Affordable Housing Program (AHP) pool of funds that will be available to the Bank’s members in 2024.
  
  
• Additionally, during the second quarter of 2023, the Bank made a $7.2 million additional voluntary contribution to its AHP Homeownership Set-aside Program funding to assist eligible borrowers purchase or rehabilitate a home through the Bank's member financial institutions. Funds are available on a first-come, first-served basis via the Bank’s First-time Homebuyer Product, the Community Partners Product, and the Community Rebuild and Restore Product.
  
  
• Since the inception of its AHP in 1990, the Bank has awarded more than $1.1 billion in AHP funds, assisting more than 174,000 households.
  

Reliable Source of Liquidity

• For the six months ended June 30, 2023, the Bank originated $307.6 billion of advances, thereby providing significant liquidity to its members. The Bank has continued to execute on the Bank’s business model, as a reliable source of liquidity and funding for its members, while remaining adequately capitalized during the second quarter of 2023. The Bank cannot predict other extraordinary events that may have an impact on the Bank’s results of operations, nor the extent to which these events could continue to impact advance demand levels.

The selected financial data above should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included in the Bank's Second Quarter 2023 Form 10-Q expected to be filed with the SEC on or about August 11, 2023 and which will be available at www.fhlbatl.com and on www.sec.gov.

About Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

FHLBank Atlanta offers competitively-priced financing, community development grants, and other banking services to help member financial institutions make affordable home mortgages and provide economic development credit to neighborhoods and communities. The Bank is a cooperative whose members are commercial banks, credit unions, savings institutions, community development financial institutions, and insurance companies located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. FHLBank Atlanta is one of 11 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System (FHLBank System). Since 1990, the FHLBanks have awarded approximately $7.3 billion in Affordable Housing Program funds, assisting more than one million households.

For more information, visit our website at www.fhlbatl.com. 

To the extent that the statements made in this announcement may be deemed as “forward-looking statements”, they are made within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which include statements with respect to the Bank's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors, many of which may be beyond the Bank's control, and which may cause the Bank's actual results, performance, or achievements to be materially different from the future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, and the reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on them, since those may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including, without limitation: legislative, regulatory and accounting actions, changes, approvals or requirements; completion of the Bank’s financial closing procedures and final accounting adjustments for the most recently completed quarter; uncertainties relating to the phase-out of LIBOR; SOFR variations; future economic, liquidity and market conditions (including in the housing market and banking industry); changes in demand for advances, advance levels, consolidated obligations of the Bank and/or the FHLBank System and their market; changes in interest rates; changes in prepayment speeds, default rates, delinquencies, and losses on mortgage-backed securities; volatility of market prices, rates and indices that could affect the value of financial instruments; changes in credit ratings and/or the terms of derivative transactions; changes in product offerings; political, national, and world events; disruptions in information systems; membership changes; mergers and acquisitions involving members; and other adverse developments or events, including extraordinary or disruptive market events, affecting or involving other Federal Home Loan Banks, their members or the FHLBank System in general. Additional factors that might cause the Bank's results to differ from forward-looking statements are provided in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available at www.sec.gov.

The forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of the date that they are made, and the Bank has no obligation and does not undertake to publicly update, revise, or correct any of these statements after the date of this announcement, or after the respective dates on which such statements otherwise are made, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as may be required by law. New factors may emerge, and it is not possible for us to predict the nature of each new factor, or assess its potential impact, on our business and financial condition. Given these uncertainties, we caution you not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.

CONTACT: Sharon Cook
Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta
scook@fhlbatl.com 
404.888.8173