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  • April 24, 2024
  • Bulletin No: 2024-13

Collateral Verifications - Assigned Exception Rates 2024

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas' (Bank) collateral verification requirements, as more fully described in the Bank's Member Products and Credit Policy (MPCP), require periodic reviews of members on blanket collateral status to determine the ineligible loan and document exception rates to be used to calculate borrowing capacity. Ineligible loan rates are determined by desktop reviews, and document exception rates are determined by onsite collateral verifications. Ineligible loan and document exception rates become outdated and are no longer valid after the end of the year following the most recent review.
 
For members on blanket collateral status that have never had a desktop review or onsite collateral verification, or that have outdated ineligible loan and/or document exception rates, the Bank's policy requires the application of default exception percentage rates. The exception rates are assigned based on a member's classification as either a Community Financial Institution (CFI) or Large Financial Institution (LFI), as defined in the MPCP for banks and thrifts, or as a credit union.
 
The MPCP can be found on SecureConnect.
 
Effective April 30, 2024, new members, members that have never had a desktop review or onsite collateral verification, and members that had their last review prior to 2023 will be assigned the default rates set forth below. These default rates are derived from the median results of all onsite and desktop reviews conducted by the Bank during 2022 and 2023.
 
Please see the chart below. For additional information, please contact the Bank's Collateral Services department at collateral@fhlb.com or 844.541.0597.
 
Sincerely,
 
 

Gustavo Molina
EVP and Chief Banking and Digital Transformation Officer
 
 
 

Collateral Type Exception Type CFI Median LFI Median CRU Median
Single Family A: Ineligible Loans 5.0% 9.0%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 4.0% 0.0%
Combined = A + B 9.0% 9.0%
Multifamily A: Ineligible Loans 4.0%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 5.0%
Combined = A + B
9.0%
Commercial Real Estate A: Ineligible Loans 10.8%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 5.0%
Combined = A + B 15.8%
Commercial Construction A: Ineligible Loans 2.0%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 3.4%
Combined = A + B 5.4%
Land A: Ineligible Loans 11.5%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 3.4%
Combined = A + B 14.9%
Home Equity A: Ineligible Loans 4.0% 4.5%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 7.8% 11.8%
Combined = A + B 11.8% 12.3%
Small Business A: Ineligible Loans 41.8%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 4.4%
Combined = A + B 46.2%
Small Farm A: Ineligible Loans 11.2%
B: Documentation Exception on Eligible Loans 4.4%
Combined = A + B 15.6%