Benefits of Membership

FHLBank Boston offers reliable, flexible, and cost-effective wholesale funding to members throughout New England. Membership offers many benefits, including the shared strength of our cooperative.

Advantages include:

• Readily-accessible, reliable, and low-cost source of funds, regardless of business cycle
• Innovative asset-purchase programs
• Discounted funding for affordable-housing and economic-development initiatives
• Highly rated letters of credit
• Highly rated deposit products
• High quality correspondent services
• Dividends on capital stock
• Asset-liability management, offering strategies for matching/repricing, and funding asset growth
• Operational liquidity, including short-term funding of normal business activities
• Operating leverage, providing a competitive alternative to GICs and other funding agreements that can be used to support specific assets
• Contingent liquidity as a means to increase back-up liquidity and financial flexibility