Funding Operations
Definition of 'Funding Operations'
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Investopedia explains 'Funding Operations'In July of 2009, amid the lingering global credit crisis, Sheila Bair, Chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) weighed in on the creation of a Financial Services Oversight Council to prevent a recurrence of the global economic meltdown and credit market freeze of 2007-2008. As part of the proposed Council's work, it was suggested that financial companies be subject to rules that would require them to issue short-term debt that would automatically convert to long-term debt under certain conditions such as during a liquidity crisis. |
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