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Lane says international liquidity lines support euro policy transmission

ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane said in Shanghai on 21 October that repo and swap lines limit the transmission of external euro-liquidity shocks to monetary policy.

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Lane said the enhanced EUREP facility has a maximum line size of €50 billion per central bank and that onboarding of the first foreign central banks was completed in early October. He stressed that the views in his speech were his own and should not be treated as the Governing Council’s collective position.

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    Lane says international liquidity lines support euro policy transmission

    ECB Executive Board member Philip Lane said in Shanghai on 21 October that repo and swap lines limit the transmission of external euro-liquidity shocks to monetary policy.

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