Capital (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Capital [Abstract]

Compliance with Regulatory Capital Requirements [Table Text Block]

Table 11.1 - Regulatory Capital Requirements (dollars in thousands)
Risk-Based Capital Requirements	March 31, 2020		December 31, 2019
Permanent capital
Class B capital stock	$	2,266,329	$	1,869,130
Mandatorily redeemable capital stock	6,112		5,806
Retained earnings	1,473,149		1,463,154
Total permanent capital	$	3,745,590	$	3,338,090
Risk-based capital requirement
Credit-risk capital	$	212,510	$	235,213
Market-risk capital	155,678		207,426
Operations-risk capital	110,456		132,792
Total risk-based capital requirement	$	478,644	$	575,431
Permanent capital in excess of risk-based capital requirement	$	3,266,946	$	2,762,659

	March 31, 2020						December 31, 2019
	Required			Actual			Required			Actual
Capital Ratio
Risk-based capital	$	478,644		$	3,745,590		$	575,431		$	3,338,090
Total regulatory capital	$	2,756,035		$	3,745,590		$	2,226,512		$	3,338,090
Total capital-to-asset ratio	4.0		%	5.4		%	4.0		%	6.0		%
Leverage Ratio
Leverage capital	$	3,445,043		$	5,618,385		$	2,783,141		$	5,007,135
Leverage capital-to-assets ratio	5.0		%	8.2		%	5.0		%	9.0		%