Connect With Us
A list of key FHLBank Chicago contacts can be found under the “About Us” section of fhlbc.com.
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Financial Information
At the bottom of our Financial Information page, you can find FHLBank Chicago’s Dividend History.
On the right-hand side of our Financial Information page, you can find FHLBank Chicago’s Capital Plan information.
On the right-hand side of our Financial Information page, you can find FHLBank Chicago’s Annual Reports dating back to 2017.
On the left-hand side of our Financial Information page, you can see all of FHLBank Chicago’s recent SEC filings.
Membership
Visit our application page to find out how to apply to be an FHLBank Chicago member and apply for the Mortgage Partnership Finance® (MPF®) program. In addition, you can see details on requirements, process, and benefits.
For questions about becoming a member, please reach out to our Membership team.
Benefits:
Given our access to the global debt markets, FHLBank Chicago members receive a strategic funding cost advantage and competitively priced products. These benefits include:
- A reliable source of liquidity
- Funding to meet business objectives and generate growth
- Flexible funding structures to manage interest rate and other risks
- Enhance investment yields through robust liquidity management
- Support match-funding programs
- Term funds with maturities of 10 years or longer
- Access to the MPF® Program, FHLBank Chicago’s mortgage finance alternative
- Community investment and affordable housing programs to finance your community lending at a lower marginal cost
- Irrevocable letters of credit, providing a low-cost and efficient way to attract and secure agreements with third-parties
- High-quality deposit and non-credit services
Services:
Manage your accounts, assets, and transactions in a secure and cost-effective way with our member services.
- Daily Deposit Investment Accounts – simplify your cash management
- Wire Transfers – all services here earn interest on collected funds, and are offered at competitive rates, exclusively for our members
- Repetitive, Internal, Non-Repetitive, & Direct Wire transfers are offered, along with Drawdown Requests
- Safekeeping – ensure your assets are protected with our many safekeeping services
- Securities on deposit, income earned on securities, settlement of securities, with month-end market value & current value of each security included in monthly account statements
Operational Information
Our normal operating hours are from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. In addition, our normal transaction hours are as follows:
- Term Advances: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Overnight/Open Line Advances: 8 a.m. – 3 p.m.
- Letters of Credit: 8 a.m. – 2 p.m.
- MPF Program: 8 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
View a full list of FHLBank Chicago’s holiday hours, which can also be found at the top of our Financial Information page and on our Contact Us page.
Member Communications
On our Solutions page, you can find our product strategies and updates listed chronologically. Use the filters at the top of the page to search by solution or type of content.
For questions about our product strategies and updates, please contact our Solutions team.
Visit our eNotes page to find the requirements and implementation tools to successfully pledge eNotes as collateral.
For eNotes-related questions, please contact our eNotes leads, Sam Reindl, Collateral Operations and Reporting, at 312.552.2620 or sreindl@fhlbc.com; or Eileen Crane, Collateral Policy and Compliance, at 312.565.3333 or ecrane@fhlbc.com.
A full, chronological list of our corporate news and announcements can be found on the News section.
For media inquiries, please contact Casey Reidy, Assistant Director, Communications, FHLBank Chicago.
Access
Our daily rates are available on our homepage through a PDF, HTML, or Excel format.
Market commentary and other daily FHLBank Chicago member updates can be found on our Daily Advisor page.
To log into eBanking, visit fhlbc.com and click the “eBanking login” button on the upper, right-hand corner of your screen.
For help with eBanking, please contact member Support at 855.345.2244, option 1 or membersupport@fhlbc.com.
To log into eMPF, visit fhlbc.com and click the “eMPF login” button on the upper, right-hand corner of your screen.
For help with eMPF, please contact member Support at 855.345.2244, option 1 or membersupport@fhlbc.com.
The Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago is a member-owned cooperative, which means financial institutions must purchase capital stock in order to join and maintain membership in the Bank. Purchasing capital stock funds the Bank’s cooperative business model. Applicants have 60 days from the date of their approval to meet their membership stock requirement through the purchase of capital stock. This purchase completes the application process and begins their membership in FHLBank Chicago.
For information on our Amended and Restated Capital Plan, please visit our Financial Information page.
The Capital Plan is a governing document that lists members’ capital requirements. For information on our Amended and Restated Capital Plan, please visit our Financial Information page.
Before a member can take advantage of FHLBank Chicago’s products and services, members must:
- Sign and execute documentation
- Pledge and report eligible collateral