Sentence examples for liquidity backstop from inspiring English sources

"Bonds issued by supranationals, multilateral development banks and multilateral financial institutions are among the most liquid fixed income securities available, and issuers maintain buyback provisions as a liquidity backstop".

That liquidity backstop comes with a new, more powerful regulator for the GSEs.

The ECB said the arrangements "have helped to ease strains in financial markets" and "will continue to serve as a prudent liquidity backstop".

As Paul De Grauwe has been arguing for a while, what has been needed all along to calm the markets isn't austerity — which doesn't seem to help at all — but a liquidity backstop from the ECB, which works wonders.

The Federal Reserve's facility to buy high-quality (A1-P1) commercial paper at a term of three months was likewise designed to provide a liquidity backstop, in this case for investors and borrowers in the commercial paper market.

To be sure, policy makers should have acted sooner to provide stress tests and ensure adequate capital, at least when Bear Stearns failed, and the fiscal stimulus may have eventually moderated the recession, but it was the liquidity backstop of the financial system that drew the economy out of the abyss.

Indeed, as in the two previous risk-off episodes, central bank liquidity backstopped markets and economies.

And EDF will provide Constellation with a $600 million "interim backstop liquidity facility," they said.

But a person with knowledge of the arrangement said that Sallie Mae had borrowed closer to $29 billion, and that the company sought the credit line as a backstop for liquidity.

A big part could be plugged by the European Central Bank (ECB) through a liquidity operation that would backstop the banks.

The plan, or the Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program, has backstopped nearly $350 billion of bank debt with maturity up to three years.