6 See, e.g., Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “Federal banking agencies provide banks additional flexibility to support households and businesses,” March 17, 2020, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20200317a.htm; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Federal Reserve Board announces technical change to support the U.S. economy and allow banks to continue lending to creditworthy households and businesses,” news release, March 23, 2020, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20200323a.htm; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, “Federal Reserve Board announces temporary change to its supplementary leverage ratio rule to ease strains in the Treasury market resulting from the coronavirus and increase banking organizations’ ability to provide credit to households and businesses,” news release, April 1, 2020, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20200401a.htm; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, “Agencies announce changes to the community bank leverage ratio,” news release, April 6, 2020, https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcreg20200406a.htm.
-4-  •  We supported banks’ ability to meet customer requests by reducing reserve requirements to zero, and we took steps to increase the availability of the discount window to meet liquidity needs.