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Primary Dealer Credit Facility

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

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Chronological records

2008

Ben Shalom Bernanke16 March 2008

Washington · Economy / Federal Reserve

The Federal Reserve creates the Primary Dealer Credit Facility to provide overnight secured funding to primary dealers, extending central-bank liquidity support to a critical part of the securities-market infrastructure.

Names involved

Ben Shalom Bernanke

Provenance

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