The US Federal Reserve and Treasury have launched a new liquidity facility to prevent contagion from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.
March 13, 2023 | | | | Milk Road has acquired Bitcoin Price! Milk Road is the #1 crypto newsletter that is free and will make you smarter about crypto! | | | | 📈 30 Second Cryptocurrency Price Summary | Current Bitcoin Price: $24,119 | Bitcoin price has rocketed back above the $24,000 mark, following a concerning fall below the crucial $20,000 this weekend. | Top-20 altcoins have also bounced back extremely well, as Ether regains 13%, BNB rises 11% and Litecoin leads with an 18% rally. | Top Stories for March 13, 2022 🔥 | | The US Federal Reserve and Treasury have launched a new liquidity facility, known as the Bank Term Funding Program, to prevent contagion from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. | The program resembles the pre-existing discount window, but allows banks to borrow against the same types of securities for up to a year instead of three months. | Treasury is backstopping the program with $25bn from the Exchange Stabilization Fund, but officials cannot guarantee that the funds will not be touched. The Fed believes the risk of loss is preferable to a broader breakdown in the financial system, which could prove even more costly. | | USD Coin (USDC), a stablecoin issued by Circle, has regained its peg to the US dollar after trading as low as 86 cents over the weekend. | The brief de-pegging was triggered by concerns about its cash reserves at Silicon Valley Bank, which has been taken over by regulators. Many crypto exchanges suspended USDC-related transactions, but some have since resumed trading certain USDC pairs. | Circle acknowledged that about $3.3 billion of USDC's funds were held in the bank, but assured investors it would cover any shortfall in reserves using corporate funds. | | Data from digital asset management firm CoinShares shows that crypto investment products experienced their largest outflows on record, with $255m exiting those products last week. | The figure marked the fifth consecutive week of net outflows and comprises 1% of total assets under management. Bitcoin saw the largest outflows during the week, totalling $244m, and short-bitcoin products experienced outflows of $1.2m. | | Today on Milk Road: Down goes Signature Bank, is ETH a security? And a peek inside a whale’s wallet. |
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