Federal Home Loan Banks

The Federal Home Loan Banks provide stable, on-demand, low-cost funding to American financial institutions for home mortgage loans, small business, rural, agricultural, and economic development lending. With their members, the FHLBank System represents the largest collective source of home mortgage and community credit in the country.
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The institutions that regulate and lend to savings and loan associations . The Federal Home Loan Banks play a role analogous to that played by the Federal Reserve Banks vis-agrave;-vis member commercial banks.