Here is the list of the 43 banks who have access to the Fed's SRF - Standing Repo Facility
Notice anything?
Ally Bank
Bank of America, National Association
Banco Popular de Puerto Rico
Banco Santander, S.A., New York Branch
Barclays Bank PLC, New York Branch
BMO Bank N.A.
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, New York Branch
Capital One, National Association
Charles Schwab Bank, SSB
Charles Schwab Premier Bank, SSB
Charles Schwab Trust Bank
Citibank, N.A.
Citizens Bank, N.A.
Comerica Bank
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
East West Bank
Fifth Third Bank, National Association
First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company
First Horizon Bank
Goldman Sachs Bank USA
HSBC Bank USA, N.A.
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.
KeyBank National Association
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Company
Mizuho Bank, Ltd., New York Branch
Morgan Stanley Bank, N.A.
Morgan Stanley Private Bank, National Association
MUFG Bank, Ltd., New York Branch
Natixis New York Branch
Navy Federal Credit Union
PNC Bank, National Association
Regions Bank
Royal Bank of Canada, Three World Financial Center Branch
State Street Bank and Trust Company
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, NY Branch
The Bank of New York Mellon
The Huntington National Bank
The Norinchukin Bank, New York Branch
Truist Bank
USAA Federal Savings Bank
U.S. Bank National Association
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Zions Bancorporation NA
Those bolded are non-US/non-Japanese banks who have access. The Fed doesn't publish the names of the banks that use the SRF, just the amount borrowed through the facility.
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I publish this here to remind everyone that 9 out of the 43 banks on the list have direct international ties to countries who are right now TODAY very angry with the US, primarily the UK, France and Canada.
Then there are at least 4 Japanese banks.
When someone wants to scare you with "ZOMG... the big banks borrowed Umpty-gazillion dollars from the Fed! Here's a lighter for your hair!
the first thing everything thinks is, "JPM or BofA is in trouble.
Maybe, maybe not.
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There are a lot of massive banks on this list, many of whom are shitting bricks this morning with Nicolas Maduro in US custody, because they are intimately involved in the Venezuelan story.
Expect there to be a "banking Crisis" soon as one or more of these banks get into trouble and have to borrow at the SRF rate to get the dollars they need.
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If Trump continues true to current form the next Fed chair will cancel or not honor US dollar swap lines from any foreign Central Bank we know to be involved in these games. There will be selling of US Treasuries as well to raise cash, keep banks liquid.
Watch the Smartmatic/Dominion angle on VZ carefully, Countries like France and the UK now know the flow of Dollars is going away. Expect changes to the SRF policy rates as well as the Foreign Repo facility rate in the future, i.e. to be held above Fed Funds.
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The Canary is singing in New York. Just down the road a lot of folks are trying to figure out how to keep the grift going and what it's going to cost to do so.
The main point here is don't always assume a 1:1 correlation between SRF usage and problems with major US money center banks.
It's an assumption... and depending on how loud and coordinated the cries are will be a tell as to why was actually doing the financial walk of shame.
cc: @sorenthek @ArcadiaEconomic @DavidBCollum
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Building on things @biancoresearch has talked about.
Trump wants to be repaid for the post-WWII defense arrangements with the EU.
One of the possibilities is a cram down on the debt they have. Trump's opening off is to replace all the existing USTs owned by European banks (not clear if it's commercial + central or just central) with 0%, perpetual or 100-year bonds.
Now, I think this is a pretty hilarious offer especially in light of what I've been saying for 3 years about how the EU + UK complex has been gorging on USTs since Powell began raising rates.... to the tune of $1.1 trillion net/net since Sept 2021.
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They did this to manage credit spreads between US and UK/German bonds in order to keep their banks solvent.
Look up Lagarde's Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI), she instantiated in July 2021 in response to Powell's 75 bps raises back then.
The speculation then was to help the ECB manage the Italian/German spreads which were blowing out... @zerohedge covered it that way back then.
It wasn't.... the real control lever is US yields, against which all other debt is measured. Control the long-end of the US YC, you control global rates.
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Now, that the Euro-zone + UK and subsidiaries (Caymans, Canada, Bermuda, BVI, etc) are the largest holders of US debt, the bulk of which were bought at much lower prices, higher yields, Trump wants to cram them down to 0%
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Last year when the @PeterZeihan's of the world were calling for a 5 million bbl/day collapse of output I told you about the importance of the ESPO pipeline, which could double it's flows to 1 million bbls/day.
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Now look for Russia to double ESPO again after finishing the port upgrades at Kozmino
After this weekend's upside results for @AfD in Hesse and Bavaria I want to remind everyone that this time is different for them as compared to 2018.
They have transformed into the "solutions for Germany" Party, like I said they needed to become then. /1 tomluongo.me/2018/06/18/cro…
Because they didn't rebrand themselves in 2018-19 they were easy pickings during COVID which saw their support drop to a low of 10%. They failed to cross the 16% chasm and fell back.
But, they were on the right side of the issues, German voters needed to catch up to them. /2
They would do so because once Merkel was gone, the rebrand under Alice Weidel could finally take root. They went from the "Anti-Merkel" party on immigration to the "Pro-Germany" party on immigration, war, and the economy.
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As ICEs are being legislated out of the market, unsafe EVs will come with higher insurance costs all through their lifecycle.
Your True Cost of Ownership will rise as the depreciation curve steepens and initial cost rises thanks to complexity.
Simple, straightforward trucks are leaving the market.
RIP the Nissan Titan whose footprint is too small to stay in the market, like the Ram 1500 Classic. All full-sized trucks shorter than 146" wheelbase can't be sold at scale without huge CAFE fines. carscoops.com/2023/08/nissan…