Until now these prime dealers could borrow through the Fed's overnight repo program, in which they get cash from the Fed in exchange for certain securities, or through its overnight securities lending program, which trades bonds for bonds.
Instead, the evidence appears to indicate that the CCC lending program merely reroutes existing trade flows.
Furthermore, the Bank of Japan will undoubtedly continue to ramp up its asset-buying and lending program.
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In addition to the mortgage lending program, Cloherty launched one of the first auto leasing programs in the country.
Thus it also set up the first mortgage lending program in the country.
The total cost of Vanguard's securities-lending program is well under 1%, says Tom Higgins, chief financial officer of the funds.
Fishman remembers being pitched on creating a securities lending program that would have used the proceeds to buy mortgage-backed assets.
The Fed offered to expand its emergency lending program to help commercial banks finance the purchase of asset-backed securities from the funds.
On Wednesday, the Bank of England and the Treasury extended until January 2015 a program to boost lending and help the economy.
Pakistan is expected to have to go back to the International Monetary Fund for a fresh lending program, which could require painful economic overhauls.
The fear here is that a Democratic-controlled Congress will again squeeze student lenders and attempt to ramp up competition from the direct lending program.
Whole Foods has the Whole Planet Foundation which run campaigns and a micro-lending program to inject cash into needy communities on an international scale.
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Yale used to have a worthy lending program in which the grads who took jobs as investment bankers repaid large sums while the poets got a break.
Amazon is the most recent, having launched (big hat tip to the Channel Advisor Blog for uncovering the story) a program called Amazon Lending from Amazon Capital Services Inc.
The federal lending program designed to make college education available to everyone is creating a pile of debt so large it is fanning worries that it has become too easy to borrow too much.
Several senior publishing executives said recently they were concerned that a digital-lending program of the sort contemplated by Amazon would harm future sales of their older titles or damage ties to other book retailers.
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In addition, the government is expected to pay several investment management firms to match private-sector money and expand a new Treasury-Federal Reserve program designed to boost consumer lending.
And then finally, a discussion about the small business lending facility and loan program that the President believes -- and you saw the comments from Chairman Bernanke yesterday about the need to get -- continue to get increased capital to small business and why that is so important in our economic recovery.
"The more we go towards direct lending, the more bureaucratic the program will become, " says ASLP Executive Director Kevin Bruns.
Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
Significantly for the Fed, the new program (which it is inelegantly calling its "term securities lending facility") is designed to be "reserve neutral, " meaning it won't increase the nation's money supply to the point where it sparks inflation.
The suit, filed this morning in the Southern District Court of New York, says the bank and its subsidiary MortgageIT lied about the quality of its mortgages and lending practices so it could take advantage of a government program that provided insurance against the mortgages.
The reason we're proposing things like small business lending, the jobs and wages tax credit, the energy retrofit program, is because we think those will be particularly effective.
To get the banks to start lending to each other again, that's the unique aspect to this program.
So far, only a few governments have made moves towards dealing with their toxic assets: the U.K.'s asset protection program insures banks against future losses on bad assets but in return requires pledges that participating institutions increase domestic lending.
The program is meant to be a straightforward way to beef up thinning bank reserves and inspire confidence so banks start lending again.
The audience is rapt as they listen to Denning, a former World Bank program director who received international recognition for his successful transformation of the old-school, decentralized, multi-cultural lending international agency in the 90s.
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