Publisher

Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Media Date

3-1-2009

Media Type

Document

Content Type

Article-Newsletter/Agency

Country/Region

United States

Language

English

Crisis

Global Financial Crisis (2007-2009)

Additional Information

The Lehman Brothers failure stressed global interbank and foreign exchange markets because it led to a run on money market funds, the largest suppliers of dollar funding to non-U.S. banks. Policy stopped the run and replaced private with public funding.

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