Title 12 › Chapter 11— FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANKS › § 1441b
Creates the Resolution Funding Corporation to give money to the Resolution Trust Corporation so the Trust can do its work. A three‑member board runs the Funding Corporation: the director of the Federal Home Loan Banks’ Office of Finance and two Federal Home Loan Bank presidents chosen by the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board. One president’s first term is 2 years and the other’s is 3 years; later terms are 3 years. Board members stop serving if they leave the office that got them appointed. The Funding Corporation has no paid employees but can use Federal Home Loan Bank staff with approval. Federal Home Loan Banks pay all administrative costs. The board is unpaid and follows rules set by the Thrift Depositor Protection Oversight Board. The Funding Corporation may only do certain things: sell nonvoting stock to the Federal Home Loan Banks, buy capital certificates from the Resolution Trust Corporation, issue debt, borrow and secure loans, make assessments, enter contracts, and sue or be sued. Federal Home Loan Banks must buy stock in the Funding Corporation as ordered. The first $1,000,000,000 of required investment is split among the Banks by these percentages: Boston 1.8629, New York 9.1006, Pittsburgh 4.2702, Atlanta 14.4007, Cincinnati 8.2653, Indianapolis 5.2863, Chicago 9.6886, Des Moines 6.9301, Dallas 8.8181, Topeka 5.2706, San Francisco 19.9644, Seattle 6.1422. Amounts above $1,000,000,000 are allocated based on members’ assets, with special rules if a Bank would exceed its cap (including reimbursement rules, payments beginning 2 years after purchase, interest at the Banks’ average cost of funds, and a reserve funding cap of 20% of yearly net earnings). The Funding Corporation may issue up to $30,000,000,000 of obligations. It must hold noninterest Treasury securities in a principal fund equal to the principal on its debt. Interest is paid first from the Funding Corporation’s earnings, then from certain Resolution Trust Corporation proceeds, then from each Federal Home Loan Bank paying 20% of its net earnings (with the Director adjusting payment timing so the Banks’ payments equal an annuity of $300,000,000 per year), then from other specified sources, and finally from the Treasury if needed (Treasury payments become a loan to be repaid on dissolution; funds are appropriated beginning in fiscal year 1989). Funding Corporation debt is tax‑exempt like Federal Home Loan Bank debt but is not guaranteed by the Banks, the system, the United States, or the Resolution Trust Corporation and must say so. The Oversight Board must send an audited annual report to the President and Congress by June 30 each year. The Funding Corporation must be closed once all its obligations are fully paid. After the Resolution Trust Corporation ends, the Oversight Board members are the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chair of the Federal Reserve, and the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
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12 U.S.C. § 1441b
Title 12 — Banks and Banking
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Apr 3, 2026
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