Primary Dealer

A primary dealer is a bank or securities broker-dealer that may trade directly with the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

Between them, these dealers purchase the vast majority of the U.S. Treasury securities (T-bills, T-notes, and T-bonds) sold at auction, and resell them to the public. Their activities extend well beyond the Treasury market, for example, according to the Wall Street Journal Europe (2/9/06 p. 20), all of the top ten dealers in the foreign exchange market are also primary dealers, and between them account for almost 73% of forex trading volume. Arguably, this group's members are the most influential and powerful non-governmental institutions in world financial markets. Group membership changes slowly. (wikipedia)

Primary Dealer sind Banken bzw Wertpapierbroker, die direkt mit der FED handeln.

Nachdem im März 2008 eine der grössten US Wertschriftenhändler notverkauft werden musste, stellte die FED den Finanzinstituten Notkredite zur Verfügung. Die sogenannten Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF).

Es war geplant, dass die PDCF per Ende September 2008 eingestellt werden.

Anscheinend ist der Markt aber immer noch so instabil, dass eine Verlängerung der Primary Dealer Credit Facility’s beschlossen wurde.
http://www.panasol.ch/geld-kredite/was-ist-ein-primary-deale...

List of the Primary Government Securities Dealers Reporting to the Government Securities Dealers Statistics Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

BNP Paribas Securities Corp.
Banc of America Securities LLC
Barclays Capital Inc.
Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc.*
Cantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC
Daiwa Securities America Inc.
Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.
Dresdner Kleinwort Securities LLC
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Greenwich Capital Markets, Inc.
HSBC Securities (USA) Inc.
J. P. Morgan Securities Inc.*
Lehman Brothers Inc.
Merrill Lynch Government Securities Inc.
Mizuho Securities USA Inc.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated
UBS Securities LLC.

http://www.ny.frb.org/markets/pridealers_current.html