Within just a few hours of the Treasury Department's Sept. 19 announcement of a government guarantee for money market mutual funds, ABA was on the phone and in meetings with Treasury officials and bank regulators explaining the dire consequences such a plan would have for banks and the financial system and asking for fixes.

• FRB Money Market Investor Funding Facility –  1/7/09
• Main Treasury Department page on MMMF Program
• ABA Q&A on Treasury MMMF Plan  – 11/25/08
• Treasury Announces Extension of Temporary Guarantee Program for Money Market Funds – 11/24/08
• Treasury Opens Money Market Funds Guarantee Program – 9/29/08
• FAQ: Treasury's Money Market Funds Guarantee Program – 9/29/08
• Treasury press release announcing changes to Treasury MMMF plan – 9/21/08
•  Yingling Explains Objections to Money Market Mutual Fund Guaranty on CNBC
  (Video: 4.5 min)
• ABA letter to Treasury, Fed on MMMF plan – 9/19/08
• ABA Daily Newsbytes Special Edition:
  Treasury Money Market Action – 9/19/08 

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