Federal reserve statutory reserve rate
What it means: The interest rate at which an eligible financial institution may borrow funds directly from a Federal Reserve bank. Banks whose reserves dip below the reserve requirement set by the In general, the statutory reserve requirement for banks and credit unions in the United States is 10% of deposits; that is, if a bank has $100,000,000 US Dollars (USD) in deposits from customers, it can lend out up $90,000,000 USD and must keep $10,000,000 USD either in cash in its own vault or on deposit with the Federal Reserve Bank or The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (``Board'') is amending Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) to revise the rate of interest paid on balances maintained to satisfy reserve balance requirements (``IORR'') and the rate of interest paid on excess