Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, (informally referred to as the Atlanta Fed and the Bank), is the sixth district of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States and is headquartered in midtown Atlanta, Georgia.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Seal Headquarters
Headquarters	1000 Peachtree St NE Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Established	May 18, 1914
President	Raphael Bostic
Central bank of	Sixth District  Alabama  Florida  Georgia Parts of:  Louisiana  Mississippi  Tennessee
Website	www.FRBAtlanta.org
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is one of 12 regional banks that make up the Federal Reserve System

The Atlanta Fed covers the U.S. states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, the eastern two-thirds of Tennessee, the southern portion of Louisiana, and southern Mississippi as part of the Federal Reserve System.[1] Along with its Atlanta headquarters, the Banks operates five branches with the sixth district, which are located in Birmingham, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, and New Orleans. These branches provide cash to banks, savings and loans, and other depository institutions; transfer money electronically; and clear millions of checks.[2]

In addition to supporting the U.S. financial system, the Atlanta Fed carries out the supervision and regulation of the banks operating within the sixth district. It also is a source of research and expertise for public and private decision makers within the district. In recent years, researchers within the Atlanta Fed have innovated new tools to gauge the health of the macro U.S. economy, the two most notable are GDPNow[3] and Wage Growth Tracker.[4]

The Atlanta Fed is currently led by Dr. Raphael Bostic, who was appointed in 2017[5] and is member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the committee that makes key decisions about interest rates and the growth of the United States money supply.

Responsibilities and functions

Federal Reserve System Sixth District

The Atlanta Fed's footprint covers the southeastern U.S., including the states of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, 74 counties in the eastern two-thirds of Tennessee, 38 parishes of southern Louisiana, and 43 counties of southern Mississippi as part of the Federal Reserve System.[1]

The Atlanta Fed, along with the other 11 regional district banks, has three primary functions: assisting with monetary policy, operation of nationwide payment system, and administering bank supervision and regulation.[6] Its job is to decide the interest rates, and the president meets with other bank presidents and board members. The bank's board of directors makes recommendations on the levels of discount rates.

Secondarily, the Atlanta Fed is a source of research and expertise for public and private decision makers within the district. Researchers within the Atlanta Fed have innovated new tools to gauge the health of the macro U.S. economy, the two most notable are GDPNow[7] Wage Growth Tracker.[4] The Atlanta Fed's GDPNow, which is a "nowcasting" model for gross domestic product (GDP) growth that synthesizes the related GDP subcomponents with monthly source data prior to the formal GDP release by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, is widely followed[8] by financial markets. The Wage Growth Tracker is a measure of the nominal wage growth of individuals, using microdata from the Current Population Survey (CPS) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Leadership

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta headquarters, designed by the 2011 Driehaus Prize winner Robert A. M. Stern

The Bank is governed by a Board of Directors, which is drawn from the sixth district's business community, banks, and labor and consumer organizations, and makes recommendations every two weeks on the level of the discount rate, which is the rate at which the Bank lends to commercial banks.

The Bank's staff is led by Dr. Raphael Bostic, who was appointed in 2017[5] and is member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC).

Governors and presidents

With the appointment of President Bostic in 2017, there have been 15 chief executive officers of the Atlanta Fed. The title of Reserve Bank chief executive officer was changed to president by the Banking Act of 1935.[9]

#	CEO	Life span	Term start	Term end
Governors
1	Joseph A. McCord	1857-1943	October 19, 1914	January 10, 1919
2	Max Wellborn	1862-1957	March 1, 1919	January 1, 1928
3	Eugene R. Black	1873-1934	January 13, 1928	May 19, 1933
4	W.S. Johns	-	May 19, 1933	August 16, 1934
-	Eugene R. Black*	1873-1934	August 16, 1934	December 19, 1934
5	Oscar Newton[10]	1877-1939	January 10, 1935	February 14, 1936
Presidents
-	Oscar Newton*	1877-1939	February 14, 1936	February 13, 1939
6	Robert S. Parker*	1884-1941	February 18, 1939	March 28, 1941
7	William S. McLarin Jr.	1889-1960	May 9, 1941	March 1, 1951
8	Malcolm H. Bryan	1902-1967	April 1, 1951	September 30, 1965
9	Harold T. Patterson	1903-1971	October 1, 1965	January 31, 1968
10	M. Monroe Kimbrel	1903-1971	February 1, 1968	March 31, 1980
11	William F. Ford	-	August 1, 1980	October 1, 1983
12	Robert P. Forrestal	1931-2004	December 7, 1983	December 31, 1995
13	George C. "Jack" Guynn	1943-	January 1, 1996	September 30, 2006
14	Dennis P. Lockhart†	1947-	March 1, 2007	February 28, 2017
15	Raphael Bostic	1966-	June 5, 2017	incumbent

†	Stepped down due to reaching retirement age
*	Died in office

Board of directors

The following people are on the board of directors as of September 2016:[11][12]

Class A

Class A

Name	Title	Term Expires
Gerard R. Host	President and Chief Executive Officer Trustmark Corporation Jackson, Mississippi	2018
T. Anthony Humphries	President and Chief Executive Officer NobleBank and Trust Anniston, Alabama	2016
William H. Rogers Jr.	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer SunTrust Banks, Inc. Atlanta, Georgia	2017

Class B

Class B

Name	Title	Term Expires
Elizabeth A. Smith	Chairman and CEO Bloomin' Brands, Inc. Tampa, Florida	2018
Jonathan T.M. Reckford	CEO Habitat for Humanity International Atlanta, Georgia	2017
José S. Suquet	Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Pan-American Life Insurance Group New Orleans, Louisiana	2016

Class C

Class C

Name	Title	Term Expires
Thomas A. Fanning (Chair)	Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer Southern Company Atlanta, Georgia	2018
Myron A. Gray	President, U.S. Operations United Parcel Service Atlanta, Georgia	2017
Michael J. Jackson (Deputy Chair)	Chairman and CEO AutoNation, Inc. Fort Lauderdale, Florida	2016

All terms expire on December 31.[12]

Headquarters

The old Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta building, now the State Bar of Georgia. Located at 104 Marietta Street NW

Since 2001, the Atlanta Fed has been located at 1000 Peachtree Street NE in Midtown Atlanta. Prior to 2001, the bank was located in downtown Atlanta at 104 Marietta Street NW, which is now the home of the State Bar of Georgia.

The bank hosts the Atlanta Monetary Museum at its building.

Branches

• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Birmingham Branch Office
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Jacksonville Branch Office
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Miami Branch Office
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta New Orleans Branch Office
• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Nashville Branch Office

See also

• Federal Reserve Act
• Federal Reserve Bank
• Federal Reserve Branches
• Federal Reserve Districts
• Federal Reserve System
• Structure of the Federal Reserve System

References

1. "Federal Reserve Bank Presidents: Dennis P. Lockhart". Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. January 28, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
2. "Branches". Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Archived from the original on January 22, 2009. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
3. "GDPNow". www.frbatlanta.org.
4. "Wage Growth Tracker". www.frbatlanta.org.
5. "Atlanta Fed Names Bostic New President and Chief Executive Officer". FRB Atlanta. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
6. "THE ATLANTA FED". FRB Atlanta. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
7. "GDPNow". www.frbatlanta.org.
8. Burki, Shahid Javed (July 17, 2017). "What the Hamburg summit means to the world". The Express Tribune. The Express Tribune. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
9. "Former Atlanta Fed Presidents". www.frbatlanta.org. Retrieved July 22, 2017.
10. "Oscar Newton". Federal Reserve History. Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
11. "Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Directors", FRB Atlanta webpage. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
12. "Directors of Federal Reserve Banks and Branches". The Federal Reserve. September 13, 2016.

External links

• Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
• Federal Reserve Bank Presidents
• Historical resources by and about the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta including annual reports back to 1915