The Fed offered $1 billion for 14 days through its Term Deposit Facility and received bids worth $6.14 billion, the central bank said in a statement today.

今天美联储表示，已经通过定期存款机制出售了10亿美元的14天定期存款，接受的报价达61.4亿美元。

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The proposal that seems to be gaining most traction is for a liquidity facility funded by a levy on the industry, akin to the FDIC’s deposit-insurance scheme for banks.

这项建议似乎很有吸引力，因为它作用于对行业征收经费的流动资金体制，与美国联邦存款保险公司为银行作出的存款保险计划相似。

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Earlier, the Fed had announced it was increasing the size of its Term Auction Facility (TAF), set up last December to supply one-month loans to deposit-taking Banks.

早前，美联储曾宣布将增加短期标售工具的规模，短期标售工具在去年12月建立，它给接受存款的银行提供一个月的贷款。

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For example, the European Central Bank allows banks to place excess reserves in an interest-paying deposit facility.

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It is the refinancing rate that usually dictates average money market interest rates with the deposit facility rate acting as a lower floor.

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