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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The banks most reluctant to tap the U.S. central bank's discount window to shore up their capital are in fact those who face the highest failure risk, according to new research ...

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 window acts ...

WASHINGTON - Borrowing at the discount window, for decades a contingency to avoid at almost any cost, is no longer taboo. Really. Six months after the Federal Reserve Board made changes meant to ...

Federal Reserve Governor Philip Jefferson said Monday that usage of the U.S. central bank's discount window has seen greater use in recent years, attributing the increase to a series of policy ...

In the first half of March, three banks - Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and Silvergate - all had relatively classic bank runs and collapsed. Which sparked some major banking stress. As a result ...

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 ...

Banks try to avoid the Fed's discount window, an emergency lending program. We explain why. Plus, a small business rides out economic and climate changes. Sign up for the Marketplace newsletter to get ...

IT seemed curious in late August when the nation’s four largest banks stepped up to the Federal Reserve’s discount window and borrowed $500 million each. That’s the method the Fed uses to provide ...

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 ...

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 ...