Weekly Update: Bank Term Funding Program

Weekly Update: Bank Term Funding Program

Here is our weekly update on the Fed’s back door QE program, also known as the Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP), also known as a bank bailout program.

  • The Bank Term Funding Program (BTFP, bail out/QE) had approximately $103.1 billion in outstanding loans as of Wednesday this week, up from $102.7 billion (+ $0.4 billion) a week ago.
  • The “other credit extensions” line item of $168.3 billion includes the FDIC loans made to regional banks. This figure is down from $172.3 billion (- $4.0 billion) a week ago.

FEDERAL RESERVE statistical releasehttps://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/h41/current/