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finance3 years ago

Banks Rush to Borrow Record $165 Billion from Fed for Liquidity Backstop

Banks borrowed a record $164.8 billion from two Federal Reserve backstop facilities in the most recent week, surpassing the peak hit during the 2008 financial crisis, as a sign of escalated funding strains in the aftermath of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure. Emergency loans reversed around half of the balance-sheet shrinkage that the Federal Reserve has achieved since it began so-called quantitative tightening.