BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, pumped 156 billion yuan into the market through the medium-term lending facility (MLF) in May.
The interest rate for the one-year MLF stood at 3.30 percent.
First introduced in 2014 to help commercial and policy banks maintain liquidity, the MLF tool allows lenders to borrow from the central bank by using securities as collateral.
The central bank’s outstanding MLF to banks had stood at 4017 billion yuan by the end of May. (Edited by Zhang Yuan, zhangyuan11@xinhua.org)
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