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Re:The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel busine... by cm2187 on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:33AM (#18044956)
When you lend to someone, he is free to transfer the money immediatly to whomever, who may or may not be a customer of that bank. The loan must have been funded for the bank to be able to afford to transfer the deposit away. Now you may get some deposit back that same day but the funding decision has to be made before.

Anyway, neither funding or pricing determines the amount of lending these days, capital ratios are the limiting constraint.

Re:The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel busine... by makomk on Saturday September 22, 2018 @04:41AM (#18045130)
Ah, but when they transfer that money, it'll be to some customer of some bank whose loan customers will also be transferring money in the other direction. This means, in practice, that the main constraint on a bank's ability to lend money is how willing all the other banks are to lend money at the time. The Bank of England paper linked earlier in the thread explains why this has undesirable economic implications that are missed by the incorrect money multiplier model.
Re:The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel busine... by stephen_g on Saturday September 22, 2018 @03:45AM (#18044984)
The bank needs liquidity to settle inter-bank transfers after they've lent, some of that is deposits but they can also just borrow reserves from other banks if they need to do that.

The lending itself created new bank credit, it was never "funded". If the bank has capital adequacy, they make the loan.

Re:The Fed stalls the creation of a bank with a novel busine... by neilwilson on Saturday September 22, 2018 @10:53AM (#18046194)
When the deposit is transferred away essentially the target bank becomes the depositor in the source bank.

That's effectively what 'interbank lending' is. The central bank system then centralises that peer-to-peer processes.

Deposits are swapped for capital in the same way.