Access to timely market information used to be restricted to large banks with pricey market-data systems. Now, through a partnership between the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston (the Bank) and Lehman Brothers, the Bank is offering member institutions unprecedented access to state-of-the-art capital-markets data, research, information, analytical tools, and ideas on all facets of the balance sheet.

The basic version of LehmanLive, an online resource provided by Lehman Brothers, is now available to FHLB members to help them access current and historical market data. This information provides members with another resource to help them make better investment, funding, and asset-liability decisions, and improve their execution when accessing the capital markets.

A basic version of LehmanLive is available to member institutions through FHLB Direct, the Bank's online banking service, at no charge and with no obligation to Lehman Brothers.

Members have access to real-time prices and yields on U.S. Treasuries, agencies (both bullet and callable), mortgage-backed securities, interest-rate swaps, equity indexes, and real-time yield curves. Current and historical Treasury, mortgage, agency, swap, LIBOR, CMT, bank debt, and mortgage-refinancing rates are also available.

Lehman Brothers' Global Economics team posts daily and weekly economic research and commentary, as well as a calendar displaying the daily economic data that move the markets.

Member banks that opt to receive LehmanLive's premium service can access tools to analyze specific bonds; price financial instruments such as bonds, swaps, caps, and floors; analyze and understand the market's expectations for federal funds; price loan and deposit products; and perform other valuable analytical functions.

Premium access also provides members with the full array of Lehman Brothers' Bank Strategies research, as well as ideas, observations, and recommendations on investment, funding, lending, deposit-gathering, interest-rate-risk management, bank accounting, and regulatory compliance.

If LehmanLive is right for your institution, please contact Beth Nadeau at beth.nadeau@fhlbboston.com or 617-292-9680. To learn more about FHLB Direct, visit www.fhlbboston.com/members, or contact Carole Hathaway at fhlbdirect@fhlbboston.com or 617-292-9618.