The Federal Reserve has released by court order thousands of documents revealing the name of banks that benefited from its discount-window emergency funding related to the financial crisis. The documents, obtained by news organizations through the Freedom of Information Act, reveal, among other things, that U.S. banks such as Citigroup, and even foreign banks, including Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank were major users of the program. Mortgage-backed securities were the largest share of total collateral during the fall of 2009.

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