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FILE PHOTO: The Swiss National Bank (SNB) is pictured during a federal council meeting in Bern, Switzerland, March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

Swiss National Bank makes another large draw on Fed swap line


(Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank this week drew nearly $6.3 billion from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s currency swap line facility, roughly double the amount drawn a week earlier, New York Fed data released on Thursday showed.

The SNB on Wednesday drew $6.27 billion in U.S. currency for a seven-day term at an annualized rate of 3.33%. A week earlier it drew $3.1 billion at the same term and rate.

The two transactions were larger than any of the draws the SNB made during the spring of 2020 when it and other central banks tapped the Fed for billions of dollars during the global market panic that erupted in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic.

The SNB is one of five foreign central banks with whom the Fed has established standing currency swap lines. They are available also to the European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England and Bank of Canada and allow those banks to deliver dollar-funding to financial institutions in their own jurisdictions.

The ECB was the only other central bank making a swap trade with the Fed this week. It drew $211.5 million, up from $206.5 million a week earlier but in the range of the ECB’s typical weekly draw over the last year.

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The swap lines tend to see little use during periods of market calm. Their relatively limited use in recent weeks as markets have been battered by the Fed’s hawkish policy stance in its battle with inflation and as the BoE has had to intervene in a U.K. bond market roiled by the new Conservative government’s fiscal plans has been noted by analysts as an indication that markets, while choppy and at times thin, are not dysfunctional.

The increase this week “is substantial, but nowhere near the type of thing seen in an acute crisis,” Jefferies money market economist Thomas Simons wrote in a note to clients recapping the Fed’s weekly balance sheet data.

 

(Reporting by Dan Burns; Editing by Chris Reese)

 

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