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Federal funds market |
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Federal funds market The market in which banks can borrow or lend reserves, allowing banks temporarily short of their required reserves to borrow reserves from banks that have excess reserves. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 6 percentage points above the risk-free borrowing rate in the federal funds market. The Libor-OIS spread, therefore, is an indicator of both the short-term credit risk of financial institutions and the illiquidity of the Libor market relative to the federal funds market. But banks and thrifts can also access funding through the ability to take insured deposits (in the form of brokered CDs, sweep programs, and other types of consumer and business accounts) and obtain advances from the Federal Home Loan Bank System, the Federal Funds market and other sources. |
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