Verified 2026-10-22Fact-Checked
The Federal Reserve Standing Repo Facility (SRF) refers to the permanent overnight liquidity backstop administered by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York that caps secured U.S. dollar funding rates by lending cash against U.S. Treasury and Agency securities at the top of the FOMC target range [4.50%, Federal Reserve H.15 Release, October 2026]. As the U.S. Treasury General Account (TGA) rebuilds toward its $850 billion cash target [$850 billion, U.S. Treasury Quarterly Refunding Estimate, Q4 2026] and Overnight Reverse Repo (ON RRP) balances approach structural exhaustion at $142 billion [$142 billion, NY Fed Markets Desk Data, October 2026], commercial bank reserves bear 72% of incremental fiscal liquidity drain, driving episodic SOFR-IORB spread inversions on Treasury auction settlement dates.