-  Another important development has the enlargement of the range of eligible collateral by several central banks, temporarily or permanently, and of the list of eligible counterparties. -  The new Term Auction Facility (TAF) introduced by the Fed extended the broad range of discount window collateral to a series of substantial longer-term refinancing operations structured as loans against pools of collateral.
-  The Bank of England broadened its relatively narrow range of collateral for its additional longer term operations. -  The Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of Australia also widened the list of collateral eligible for (some of) their operations.