Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Declares First Quarter Dividend

Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta Declares First Quarter Dividend (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

ATLANTA, March 22 /PRNewswire/ -- The board of directors of Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta (FHLBank Atlanta) has approved an annualized dividend rate for the first quarter of 5.90 percent, applicable to capital stock held during the period from Jan. 1, 2007, to March 31, 2007. FHLBank Atlanta will credit this dividend to members' daily investment accounts at close of business on April 2, 2007.

Each FHLBank Atlanta member may obtain additional information concerning the amount of its dividend payment by contacting FHLBank Atlanta's Customer Operations and Systems department at 1.800.536.9650, ext. 8299 or 5608.

About FHLBank Atlanta

The Bank is a cooperative financial services organization that provides funding, community development grants, and a host of other banking services to more than 1,200 member financial institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. The Bank is one of 12 district banks in the Federal Home Loan Bank System (FHLBank System), which since 1990 has contributed more than $2 billion to affordable housing development in the United States.

Some of the statements made in this press release may be "forward-looking statements," which include statements with respect to FHLBank Atlanta's beliefs, plans, objectives, goals, expectations, anticipations, assumptions, estimates, intentions, and future performance, and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which may be beyond FHLBank Atlanta's control, and which may cause FHLBank Atlanta's actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

The forward-looking statements may not be realized due to a variety of factors, including: future economic and market conditions; changes in demand for advances or consolidated obligation; changes in interest rates; legislative and regulatory changes; political, national and world events; and adverse developments or events affecting or involving other FHLBanks or the FHLBank System in general. Additional factors that might cause FHLBank Atlanta's results to differ from these forward-looking statements are provided in detail in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, available through FHLBank Atlanta's website at www.fhlbatl.com.