As “lender of the last resort,” the Federal Reserve makes credit available to financial institutions on an overnight basis through its discount window. According to the Fed, the discount ...

In a two-part speech delivered Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Fed Vice Chair Philip Jefferson delved into the history of the discount window, an arc that saw the facility transform from a ...

I t is of Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan's view that every bank in the U.S. should be fully set up at the Federal Reserve's discount window in order to maintain a dynamic banking system, she ...

My thoughts are with the people and communities affected. For our part, the Federal Reserve and other federal and state financial regulatory agencies are working with banks and credit unions in the ...

The Federal Reserve is attempting to achieve its own soft landing through quantitative tightening without creating a ...

Its latest efforts may not move the dial much. The Fed’s discount window and the Standing Repo Facility (SRF) are credit backstops where lenders can get cash against collateral such as Treasury ...

US regulators are preparing to introduce a plan to require that banks tap the US Federal Reserve’s (Fed) discount window at least once a year to reduce the stigma and ensure lenders are ready ...

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That data led a few Fed watchers to call on the central bank to stop cutting rates. Jefferson also spoke at length about the ...

On Friday, Logan also said banks should make sure they have diverse sources of funding and emphasized that the Fed’s emergency lending facility, the discount window, should be part of that.