FED – Federal Reserve announces the extension of its temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap lines with nine central banks through December 31, 2021

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced the extension of its temporary U.S. dollar liquidity swap lines with nine central banks through December 31, 2021. These arrangements were first announced on March 19, 2020 to ease strains in global dollar funding markets resulting from the COVID-19 shock & to mitigate the effect of such strains on the supply of credit to households & businesses, both domestically & abroad. Extensions to the facility through March 2021 & later through September 2021 were announced on July 29, 2020 & December 16, 2020, respectively. A further extension of the temporary swap lines will help sustain improvements in global U.S. dollar funding markets by serving as an important liquidity backstop.

These swap lines allow the provision of U.S. dollar liquidity in amounts up to $60 billion each for the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Banco Central do Brasil, the Bank of Korea, the Banco de México, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, & the Sveriges Riksbank (Sweden) & $30 billion each for the Danmarks Nationalbank (Denmark), the Norges Bank (Norway), & the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

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