Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Federal Reserve Seal
Headquarters
Headquarters	1000 Peachtree St NE Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Established	May 18, 1914 (110 years ago) (1914-05-18)
President	Raphael Bostic
Central bank of	Sixth District  Alabama  Florida  Georgia Parts of:  Louisiana  Mississippi  Tennessee
Website	www.atlantafed.org
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is one of 12 regional banks that make up the Federal Reserve System

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.

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 a 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.