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​FCA bookletters 

Bookletters are documents that communicate the agency’s position on specific issues. This database contains all the FCA bookletters that are currently in effect. To print them all out at once, go to the FCA handbook for a printer-friendly file.

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Disclosure of Financial Forecasts
  
Farm Credit Bank and Association Appointed Directors
  
Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) Guaranteed Loans -- Capitalization of Interest
  
Farm Credit Investment Bonds
  
Government Seizure of Property Used in Connection with Controlled Substances
  
Disclosure of Farm Credit Administration Reports of Regular Examination to Small Business Administration with Application for Approved Lender Status
  
Leasing Authority of Farm Credit Banks and Agricultural Credit Banks Operating Under Title I, and Direct Lender Associations
  
Guidelines for Utilizing Derivative Products
  
Loan Participation Requirements
  
Voluntary Advance Conditional Payment Accounts
  
Farm Credit Administration's Approval Requirements for the Global Debt Program
  
Lending Policies and Loan Underwriting Standards Regulations
  
Guidance Relating to Investment Activities
  
Providing sound and constructive credit to young, beginning, and small farmers, ranchers, and producers or harvesters of aquatic products
  
Guidance on Farm Credit Bank and Association Nominating Committees
  
Adequacy of Farm Credit System institutions’ allowance for credit losses for financial assets measured at amortized cost
  
Maximum Director Compensation for 2006
  
Tobacco Buyout Lending and Investment Opportunities
  
Revised Regulatory Capital Treatment for Certain Electric Cooperatives Assets
  
Effect of FAS 158 on Regulatory Capital
  
Floor Nomination Procedures for System Associations and Banks
  
Distribution of Director Candidate Information
  
Financing Agricultural Land in Transition (in the Path of Development) -- Eligibility and Scope of Financing Considerations
  
Determining Eligibility and Scope of Financing for Limited Liability Companies
  
Compensation Committees
  
Rural Housing Mortgage-Backed Securities
  
Evaluating Strategies and Risks for Loan Pricing and Structure
  
Farm Credit System Bank Merger Applications
  
Farm Credit System Investment Asset Management
  
Establishment and Implementation of a Shared-Asset Identifier
  
Providing Credit to Farmers and Ranchers Operating in Local/Regional Food Systems
  
Lending to Similar Entities
  
Tier 1/Tier 2 Capital Framework Guidance
  
Strengthening Lending and Loan Servicing Controls
  
Revised Capital Treatment for Certain Water and Wastewater Exposures
  
Bookletter Interest Rate Risk Management Guidance for Farmer Mac
  
Interest Rate Risk Management
  
Criminal referral guidance
  
Sound governance of wholesale funding and related processes