For Release at4:30 P.M. Eastern timeOctober 21, 2010
The Board's H.4.1 statistical release, "Factors Affecting Reserve Balances of Depository Institutions and Condition Statement of Federal Reserve Banks," has been modified to reflect the recent expansion of the set of counterparties with whom the Federal Reserve might conduct reverse repurchase agreements for the purposes of open market operations. (See http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/rrp_counterparties.html). As a result of this expansion, the line "Dealers" under the heading "Reverse repurchase agreements" will be replaced with "Others" in table 1. Currently, the set of counterparties in the "Others" category is primary dealers and an eligible set of money market funds.
