With The Fed’s bank bailout facility now expired (and the one-year term loans starting to mature), it is perhaps not surprising that we saw a very large liquidity drain from The Fed’s Reverse Repo facility in the last two days – over $107BN pulled out to fresh cycle lows…
Source: Bloomberg
Total deposits – on a seasonally-adjusted basis – rose by $54BN last week…
Source: Bloomberg
On a non-seasonally-adjusted basis – remind us again how actual deposits are seasonally-adjusted – banks saw and even larger $82BN deposit inflow…
Source: Bloomberg
Excluding foreign bank deposits, domestic banks saw seasonally-adjusted deposits rise $60BN (Large Banks +$59BN, Small Banks +$0.9BN), and non-seasonally-adjusted deposits rose $94BN (Large Banks +$73BN, Small Banks +$21BN)…
Source: Bloomberg
However, rather oddly, on the other side of the ledger, loan volumes plunged despite the surge in deposits (Large bank loan volumes tumbled $15BN while Small bank loan volumes rose by $0.3BN)….
Source: Bloomberg
And finally, as if you needed a reminder after the recent NYCB debacle-and-bailout – the regional bank crisis is still very much alive as evidenced by the red line below (without The Fed’s expired BTFP facility)…
Source: Bloomberg
…what else are big banks (green line) going to do with all that cash burning a hole in their pockets (although we do note a big cash drop at large banks – which includes NYCB). Regional bank shares took a tumble this week, erasing all the post-NYCB bailout gains…
As one veteran Fed watcher remarked “this is such a clusterfuck… deposits should be $500BN lower”
Source: Bloomberg
The bottom line is – this looks a lot like a ‘Small Bank’ crisis. The last time this happened, the crisis sparked a sudden $300BN ‘run’ in small bank deposits (this time it’s bigger!).
Is The Fed ‘hoping’ for a controlled bank-run this time – so as many small bank deposits are drained voluntarily, before they are drained all at once in a panic (and the Reverse Repo facility is empty, unable to provide any cushion)?
Tyler Durden
Fri, 03/15/2024 – 16:40
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