Friday, May 31, 2013

Banks don't want to pay for funding when they can get it for free

As US banks continue to grow their deposit base, they are reducing reliance on commercial paper (CP). Why pay for funding when depositors are willing to provide capital for free and in increasingly larger amounts? On the other hand foreign-owned banks, a number of whom don't have a large retail presence in the US, have recently increased their issuance of CP. The chart below shows the divergence in CP outstanding between the two groups.


Source: FRB





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