Banconote da un dollaro degli Stati Uniti d'America

Dollar liquidity transaction offerings: stop in July

The world’s major central banks, including the SNB, have agreed to discontinue the provision of US dollar liquidity with an 84-day maturity

The European Central Bank, the Swiss National Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan, in concert with the Federal Reserve, have agreed to cease offering liquidity operations in U.S. dollars with a maturity of 84 days.

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This is justified in light of the continuing improvement in financing conditions in the US and the weak demand from recent liquidity-providing operations in this currency.
This change will apply from July 1, 2021.
The auction calendar until June 30, 2021, which has already been published, remains unchanged.

La sede della Banca Nazionale Svizzera a Berna
The headquarters of the Swiss National Bank in Bern

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Weekly seven-day maturity operations will continue to be offered after July 1.
These central banks are prepared to make adjustments to their U.S. dollar liquidity provision operations depending on market conditions, including restarting those with 84-day maturities.

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The swap agreements in place among these banks are permanent schemes that serve as an important safety net (“liquidity backstop”) to ease tensions in international funding markets, helping to mitigate the effects of those tensions on lending to households and businesses at home and abroad.

La Direzione Generale della Banca Nazionale Svizzera (Fritz Zurbrügg, Thomas Jordan e Andréa Michaela Maechler)
The Governing Board of the Swiss National Bank (Fritz Zurbrügg, Thomas Jordan and Andréa Michaela Maechler)

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