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The Bank of England's Operational Standing Facilities (OSF) are part of its Sterling Monetary Framework (SMF).
The Bank of England's Operational Standing Facilities (OSF) are part of its Sterling Monetary Framework (SMF).


The OSFs are the:
The OSFs are the:

Revision as of 16:01, 7 August 2016

Bank of England.

(OSF).

The Bank of England's Operational Standing Facilities (OSF) are part of its Sterling Monetary Framework (SMF).


The OSFs are the:

  • Operational Standing Lending Facility.
  • Operational Standing Deposit Facility.

The facilities are overnight and on demand, at predetermined fixed interest rates.


As part of the SMF, the OSFs' purposes are to:

  • Provide a mechanism to bring about a close alignment of money market rates and the Official Bank Rate.
  • Provide a means for banks and other SMF participants to manage any temporary liquidity shortages arising from technical problems in their internal payments and settlement systems, or in the market-wide payments and settlements infrastructure.


See also