The discount window is a special, interest rate for short-term borrowing that the Fed offers banks to help them remain afloat during liquidity crises. Credit Discount Window at the St. Louis Fed ...

The Federal Reserve's discount window is supposed to be the lender of last resort for banks in need of emergency liquidity, but banks have historically been reluctant to use it, and Silicon Valley ...

Discount Window Borrowing When the Fed announced the expiration of the BTFP, they explained that banks will still be able to meet their liquidity needs through the Fed's primary credit facility ...

Falling cash balances at small banks are driving them to rely more heavily on the Federal Reserve's facility for short-term loans as a source of liquidity. Domestic banks borrowed $7.2 billion from ...

Discount window borrowing hit a record of nearly $153 billion in March following the SVB and Signature collapses, and the Fed was forced to set up a new emergency lending facility as well. Total ...

In the tumultuous week ending March 15, banks borrowed $152.85 billion through the discount window, up from $4.58 billion the week before. The previous record was $111 billion, a mark reached ...

The Federal Reserve has taken steps to reduce the stigma that has long plagued its discount window, though recent surveys indicate banks are still hesitant to use the key backstop facility.

So the discount window - what exactly is it? CHILDS: The discount window is actually part of the reason the Fed was created in the first place. In the early 1900s, there were all these bank runs.

Fed should do more to encourage discount window use: ex-Fed staffer By Ann Saphir August 7, 202310:02 AM PDTUpdated August 7, 2023 ...

Banks across the country turned to the Federal Reserve’s discount window and the Federal Home Loan Bank system over the last week, borrowing the most since 2008 as panic spread among depositors ...