Finding out the exact names and numbers will take some time, as the Fed released 894 individual PDF files totaling over 25,000 pages.
The lending peaked at $111 billion on October 29th, 2008, as credit markets nearly froze in the wake of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers.
In the Fed's nearly 100-year history, the central bank has never before released data relating to the discount window.
The Federal Reserve disclosed today which banks borrowed from its discount window and how much, during the period from August of 2007 to March of 2010.
