WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. banks had borrowed $10 million from the Federal Reserve's discount window as of Wednesday, the Fed said Thursday, indicating that borrowing from the Fed remains very ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) -Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve's regulatory chief, said on Thursday that banks should put aside worries about the stigma of using the U.S. central bank's discount window ...
NEW YORK, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland President Loretta Mester said Thursday she favors taking more concrete steps to make sure banks are ready to use a central bank liquidity ...
In the past several weeks, banks have been taking out emergency loans from the Federal Reserve to ensure they can cover withdrawals from customers. In the week that ended Wednesday, banks tapped more ...
July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. banks should incorporate the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facility known as the "discount window" as part of their contingency funding plans, federal banking regulators ...
After a drop earlier in the month, banks flocked to the Federal Reserve Board's discount window in the week that ended Sept. 12. As of Wednesday primary credit to healthy institutions totaled $7.152 ...
What Is the Federal Reserve’s Discount Window? The discount window, or “disco,” for short, is an interest rate offered by the Federal Reserve to help financial institutions with short-term credit ...
When banks are under financial stress, where do they turn for help? Many go to the Federal Reserve, which, through its discount window, serves as a "lender of last resort" for banks. Last month, the ...
Banks have all but abandoned the Federal Reserve’s discount window, and it is straining Wall Street’s postcrisis infrastructure. Borrowing from the discount window, the Fed’s only channel for lending ...
You don’t get much more big picture than the Federal Reserve on a Sunday afternoon pulling out all the stops. That huge cut in its short-term interest rate — another big bond buying program — echoes ...