Borrowed Reserve
Borrowed Reserve refers to funds borrowed by member banks from a Federal Reserve Bank to maintain required reserve ratios.
Central banking terms for reserve ratios, cash reserve ratios, statutory liquidity ratios, borrowed reserves, and liquid-asset mandates.
Reserve Requirements and Bank Liquidity Ratios covers central-bank institutions, reserve systems, money aggregates, liquidity facilities, and policy tools that affect interest rates, bank funding, currencies, and financial-market conditions.
Use these pages when a finance question depends on a policy rate, reserve requirement, central-bank balance sheet, liquidity operation, money-supply measure, or official monetary institution. It sits inside Reserves, Liquidity, and Bank Requirements, so readers can move up when the broader economics context matters.
Use the table below to choose the narrower economics branch before applying a term to a model, credit view, market interpretation, policy conclusion, or risk review. Move into the term page when the evidence source, calculation, institution, market convention, or risk exposure matters.
| Area | Use it for |
|---|---|
| Borrowed Reserve | Borrowed Reserve refers to funds borrowed by member banks from a Federal Reserve Bank to maintain required reserve ratios. |
| Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) | The cash reserve ratio is the share of deposits banks must hold as cash or central bank balances rather than lend out. |
| Fractional Reserve Banking | Fractional reserve banking lets banks hold part of deposits as reserves while lending the rest, creating credit and deposits. |
| Mandatory Liquid Assets | Mandatory liquid assets are required holdings of cash or highly liquid securities used to support bank liquidity and depositor confidence. |
| Reserve Ratio | A reserve ratio is the fraction of deposits or liabilities a bank must hold as reserves instead of lending or investing. |
| Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) | The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is a mandatory reserve requirement that banks must maintain in the form of liquid assets such as cash, gold, or approved securities. |
Central-bank terms are educational context; they are not rate forecasts or recommendations to borrow, lend, trade, or invest.
Choose a subsection first. Deeper term pages live inside each subsection, which keeps large topic hubs readable.
Borrowed Reserve refers to funds borrowed by member banks from a Federal Reserve Bank to maintain required reserve ratios.
The cash reserve ratio is the share of deposits banks must hold as cash or central bank balances rather than lend out.
Fractional reserve banking lets banks hold part of deposits as reserves while lending the rest, creating credit and deposits.
Mandatory liquid assets are required holdings of cash or highly liquid securities used to support bank liquidity and depositor confidence.
A reserve ratio is the fraction of deposits or liabilities a bank must hold as reserves instead of lending or investing.
The Statutory Liquidity Ratio (SLR) is a mandatory reserve requirement that banks must maintain in the form of liquid assets such as cash, gold, or approved securities.