Company: AGM-PH
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000845877-25-000033
Chunk: 173

Company: FEDERAL AGRICULTURAL MORTGAGE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-21
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 contributed to the increase in net interest income were partially offset by an $11.2 million decrease in the fair value of derivatives designated in fair value hedge accounting relationships (designated financial derivatives). In percentage terms, the 0.11% increase was primarily attributable to a decrease of 0.16% in funding costs and a decrease of 0.04% in net fair value changes from designated financial derivatives.

The $12.6 million year-over-year increase in net effective spread was primarily due to a $20.2 million increase from a shift in the composition of new business volume towards higher-yielding loans. This factor was partially offset by a $6.6 million decrease in cash-basis interest income and a $1.3 million increase in funding costs. In percentage terms, the year-over-year decrease of 0.03% was primarily attributable to an increase of 0.04% related to the increases in funding costs and a decrease of 0.02% in cash-basis interest income, which were partially offset by an increase of 0.03% on the shift in the composition of new business volume towards higher-yielding loans. 

The $71.5 million year-over-year increase in net effective spread for 2023 compared to 2022 was primarily due to a $54.6 million decrease in funding costs, due to the same factors mentioned above that decreased our funding costs, and a $20.6 million increase related to net new business volume. In percentage terms, the year-over-year increase of 0.16% was primarily attributable to a decrease in funding costs. 

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For more information about Farmer Mac's use of net effective spread as a financial measure, see "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Use of Non-GAAP Measures." For a reconciliation of net interest income to net effective spread, see Table 10 in "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Results of Operations—Net Interest Income."

Business Volume

Our outstanding business volume was $29.5 billion as of December 31, 2024, a net increase of $1.1 billion from December 31, 2023 after taking into account all new business, maturities, sales, and paydowns on existing assets. The net increase was primarily attributable to a net increase of $1.1 billion in the Infrastructure Finance line of business.

For more information about Farmer Mac's business volume, see "Management's Discussion