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Why foreign banks aren’t using swap lines just yet

A number of factors are running up the price of cross-currency basis swaps

Why foreign banks aren’t using swap lines just yet
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Everyone wants dollars right now.

But they're not yet turning to a crisis-era tool to obtain such funding, known as a swap line.

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