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Press Release
April 16, 2020

Federal Reserve announces its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity
Facility is fully operational and available to provide liquidity to eligible
financial institutions
For release at 9:00 a.m. EDT
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The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced that its Paycheck Protection Program Liquidity Facility is fully
operational and available to provide liquidity to eligible financial institutions, which will help support small
businesses.
The Small Business Administration's Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, guarantees loans extended by
qualified lenders to small businesses so that those businesses can keep workers employed. The Federal
Reserve's facility will support the effectiveness of the PPP by extending credit to financial institutions that
make PPP loans, using such loans as collateral. Supplying financial institutions with additional liquidity will
help increase their capacity to make PPP loans.
Additional information on the facility, which is managed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis on behalf
of the Federal Reserve System, can be found here
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For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955

Last Update: April 16, 2020