TARP

Global Financial Crisis (GFC) - US Treasury.

TARP is an abbreviation for Troubled Assets Relief Program, under which funds were invested by the US Treasury.

It was established to help stabilise the US financial system, restart economic growth, and prevent avoidable bankruptcies in the aftermath of the GFC.

TARP invested over $400bn in the period 2008-2010.

See also

• Bailin
• Bailout
• Capital
• Capital adequacy
• Eligible liabilities
• Global Financial Crisis (GFC)
• Loss absorbing capacity
• MREL
• Multiple Point of Entry
• Recapitalisation amount
• Recapitalise
• Resolution Authority
• Secondary Loss Absorbing Capital (SLAC)
• Single Point of Entry
• TALF
• Treasury
• United States