Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman in the House Financial Services Committee in December. WASHINGTON — Fed watchers say a proposed revamp of the discount window would be a ...

The Federal Reserve's discount window is supposed to be the lender of last resort for banks in need of emergency liquidity, but banks have historically been reluctant to use it, and Silicon Valley ...

AMELIA ISLAND, Florida, May 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is considering new rules to break the "stigma" around borrowing from the central bank's discount window to cover short-term cash ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) --Economists at a hearing Thursday promoted increased use of the Fed's discount window -- which helps commercial banks manage short-term liquidity needs -- to insulate the ...

The discount window is different from the fed funds rate, which is the interest rate the Fed sets on a bank’s required reserves. It’s also not the same as the prime rate, which a bank offers to its ...

Recently, the Fed issued an RFI and comment period on the operational aspects of the discount window and the provision of intraday credit to banks and credit unions. The discount window allows ...