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http://www.businessinsider.com/breaking-ecb-and-fed-announce-new-liquidity-measures-markets-surging-2011-9

5 September 2011 - ECB announces additional US dollar liquidity-providing operations over year-end 


The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided, in coordination with the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank, to conduct three US dollar liquidity-providing operations with a maturity of approximately three months covering the end of the year. These operations will be conducted in addition to the ongoing weekly seven-day operations announced on 10 May 2010. The schedule for these additional operations is as follows:

Tender date	Settlement date	Maturity date
12 October 2011	13 October 2011	5 January 2012
9 November 2011	10 November 2011	2 February 2012
7 December 2011	8 December 2011	1 March 2012

These will all take the form of repurchase operations against eligible collateral and will be carried out as fixed rate tender procedures with full allotment.
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Repo is short for repurchase agreement. Those who deal in government securities use repos as a form of overnight borrowing. A dealer or other holder of government securities (usually T-bills) sells the securities to a lender and agrees to repurchase them at an agreed future date at an agreed price. They are usually very short-term, from overnight to 30 days or more. This short-term maturity and government backing means repos provide lenders with extremely low risk.