Top 10 banks that borrowed from Fed during crisis

The Federal Reserve revealed Wednesday which banks had received the trillions of dollars in loans and other aid it provided during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Many of the emergency lending programs it set up enabled banks to repeatedly borrow large sums. When added up, the numbers are eye-popping: the European Central Bank, for example, racked up $8 trillion in borrowing under an arrangement it had with the Fed. All those loans were repaid, as was the borrowing by the top 10 private banks, below:

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