First Republic taps Fed facilities in effort to plug funding hole
Discount window and BTFP provide temporary relief as deposits slump $72bn in Q1
First Republic Bank increased its reliance on Federal Reserve advances and other stopgap funding to $105.9 billion in the first quarter, as it rushed to make up for a deposit flight that risked making it the third major US bank to sink in March.
The California-based bank borrowed $63.5 billion through the Fed’s discount window and $13.8 billion via the newly-established Bank Term Funding Program
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