The Federal Reserve Board today announced technical details related to reserve requirements for depository institutions, which will remain zero...
Wut Mean?:
- The Federal Reserve Board announced that the reserve requirements for depository institutions will remain at zero.
- However, as legally required, it provided annual adjustments to the reserve requirement exemption amount and the low reserve tranche for 2024, clarifying that these do not represent a change in reserve requirements.
TLDRS:
- The reserve requirements for depository institutions continue to be zero.
- The adjustment and publication of the reserve requirement exemption amount and low reserve tranche are legal requirements and do not imply a change in the actual reserve requirements.
- If reserve requirement ratios were above zero, the reserve requirement exemption amount would define the portion of a depository institution's liabilities exempt from reserve requirements.
- The low reserve tranche would determine the portion of an institutionโs net transaction accounts that might be subject to a reserve requirement ratio of up to three percent.
- For 2024, the reserve requirement exemption amount is set at $36.1 million (unchanged from 2023), and the low reserve tranche is set at $644.0 million (decreasing from $691.7 million in 2023).
- These new amounts, derived from formulas in the Federal Reserve Act, will be effective from January 1, 2024.
