The Bank of England allotted a record 69.870 billion pounds ($93.86 billion) in seven-day funds in its weekly short-term repo operation on Thursday, higher than a previous record of 68.929 billion pounds set last week.
The BoE has increasingly used its short-term repo operations to provide banks with reserves as it sells down its stockpile of government bonds bought under its quantitative easing programme.
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