Post-crisis regulations make Fed disclosure of discount window borrowers mandatory on two-year lag—higher transparency than previously, when no disclosure was required. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is that bigger banks remain at risk of their borrowing being disclosed on a weekly basis, despite changes in 2020 intended to address this risk. This continues to drive avoidance of the discount window for any bank looking to borrow in the billions.
Read the note here: https://som.yale.edu/story/2024/weekly-fed-report-still-drives-discount-window-stigma