It has been a full year since the Federal Housing Finance Agency proposed sweeping changes to the Federal Home Loan Bank membership rules and the agency said as recently as this week that the proposal remains under review. With the membership rules up in the air, last week the American Bankers Association penned a letter to the Senate urging that it adopt legislation requiring the FHFA to withdraw the proposal. In September 2014, the FHFA proposed changes that would require members to hold 10 percent of their assets in residential mortgages on an “ongoing” basis and ban captive entities from the definition of insurance companies. The revised asset test was especially controversial among community banks.