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- an unsecured short-term loan note issued by companies and generally maturing within nine months
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- Fed's Bernanke Bets Big On New 'Confidence' Game
- If you thought the federal government's $700 billion economic recovery plan was a huge gamble, then hang on. You ain't seen nothing yet. In a dramatic move aimed at breaking the credit crunch, the Federal Reserve is essentially agreeing to lend short-term money to major corporations -- a move that could also...
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
- Commercial Paper Funding Facility: So Far, So Good
- John Jansen submits: The Federal Reserve opened the Commercial Paper Funding Facility for business today. It came off pretty much without a hitch. This facility buys commercial paper from issuers such as GE and will hold that paper. Today funding was about 70 basis points through Libor which is...
- External links 2008-10-27
- GE Could Tap Fed Fund, Goose Credit Markets
- J Clinton Hill submits: GE GE announced the intention of its finance division, GE Capital Corp, to access the Fed’s short term funding facility beginning next Monday on behalf of its commercial paper customers. This should raise a few eyebrows and deserves a closer watch. So far GE’s $88bn...
- External links 2008-10-24
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- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Fitch: U.S. Nonfinancial Commercial Paper Receives a Boost in 2005
- NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings has released a new report examining conditions in the U.S. nonfinancial commercial paper CP market, focusing on volume and rating activity. The resilient U.S. economy and accompanying strong credit environment provided for meaningful volume gains in the U.S. nonfinancial CP market during the first...
- Research articles 2005-11-22
- Risk-Based Capital Guidelines; Capital Adequacy Guidelines; Capital Maintenance: Asset-Backed Commercial Paper Programs and Early Amortization Provisions
- OCC, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Board, FDIC, and OTS collectively, are proposing to amend their risk-based capital standards by removing a sunset provision in order to permit sponsoring banks, bank holding companies, and thrifts to continue to exclude from their risk-weighted asset base those assets in...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Kohler on the Crisis | BTalk Australia
- (21min 39) On today’s BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Alan Kohler, Editor-in-Chief of Business Spectator, about the credit crisis. How did it happen? What part did Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae play? Why was the collapse of Lehman Brothers so significant? What will happen next and what, if anything,...
- Blog posts 2008-12-11
- FOMC Release: "Remember, The Training Wheels Come Off In February"
- The Federal Reserve today made the customary terse release on the November meeting of its Open Market Committee meeting. In addition to the usual trimming around the edges of its views on the economy, the Board went out of its way to remind the markets that its unorthodox loan and...
- Blog posts 2009-12-16
- Thornburg Mortgage Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. Our first question is with Richard V. Shane with Jefferies and Company. Please go ahead sir. Richard V. Shane - Jefferies & Co. Larry, thanks for taking my question. I’m going to ask you to try to...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
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