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Banks Turn to the Discount Window as Regulators Weigh Access
Original: Banks Can Count on the Discount Window … if Regulators Will Let Them
The Bank Policy Institute argues that banks should be able to rely on the Federal Reserve's discount window for emergency liquidity, but only if regulators make it easier for them to do so. The piece contends that supervisory stigma and operational barriers still deter healthy banks from pre-positioning collateral and testing access, leaving the financial system more fragile in a crisis. It calls on regulators to support, not penalise, banks that prepare to use the window.
Why now: Ongoing debate over banking system liquidity and crisis preparedness keeps discount window reform in focus.
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- Banks Can Count on the Discount Window … if Regulators Will Let Them · Bank Policy Institute
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