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The Fed's Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), the facility that they introduced after the March 2023 banking crisis, now offers lower borrowing rates than the Fed pays in interest on reserve balances.

So, banks are arbitraging this by borrowing from the facility (i.e. from the Fed) at one interest rate, and then depositing that borrowed money with the Fed to earn a higher interest rate, and thus are earning that risk-free spread. They're arbitraging the Fed.

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Petr 2y ago

Anyone can explain me how that makes sense and why would anyone with access to it not max it out to maximize the spread?

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Hazey 2y ago

Whenever they do something stupid like this it is to avert systemic failure.

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