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CoBank

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Key people
  
Robert Engel, CEO

Total assets
  
117 billion USD (2015)

Founded
  
1 January 1989

Headquarters
  
Website
  
www.cobank.com

Net income
  
937 million USD (2015)

Total equity
  
7.8 billion USD (2015)


Type
  
BankGovernment-sponsored enterprise

Industry
  
AgribusinessCooperativesFinancial services

CEO
  
Robert Engel (Mar 2006–30 Jun 2017)

CoBank, part of the US Farm Credit System, provides loans and financial services to cooperatives, agribusinesses, rural public utilities and other farm credit associations, who collectively own CoBank. It is also an agricultural export credit agency, exclusive among banks of the Farm Credit System. This makes it a agricultural credit bank, a combination farm credit bank and bank for cooperatives. It is based in Greenwood Village, Colorado, outside Denver.

In 1989, the National Bank for Cooperatives was created under the voluntary options of the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 by a merger of eleven of thirteen bank for cooperatives (including the Central Bank for Cooperatives) created with the Farm Credit Act of 1933. The remaining two banks joined in 1995 when it changed its name to CoBank and merged with the Springfield Bank for Cooperatives and the Farm Credit Bank of Springfield, and in 1999 with the merger of St. Paul Bank for Cooperatives. In 2012, CoBank merged with US AgBank, FCB. In 2014, they announced the construction of a new headquarters next to Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, which opened in December 2015.

References

CoBank Wikipedia


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