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Commercial Paper Funding Facility Reintroduced

United States of America · Economy / Federal Reserve. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2020

Jerome Hayden Powell17 March 2020

Washington · Economy / Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve reestablishes the Commercial Paper Funding Facility to provide a liquidity backstop for issuers of commercial paper whose access to short-term funding has been disrupted by the pandemic-related market shock.

Names involved

Jerome Hayden Powell

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