Since the Fed has begun paying interest on bank reserves at the Fed, do barks still want to avoid holding excess reserves?

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Since the Fed has begun paying interest on bank reserves at the Fed, do barks still want to avoid holding excess reserves?

Context: If lending was more profitable than the currently very low interest rate (formerly zero) that could be received from the Fed on excess reserves, we would still normally expect barks to lend out excess reserves rather than maintain them as excess reserves Judging from the fact that there has been a huge increase in holdings of excess reserves in the barking system, however, there may well be other constraints (such as Basel III) that may be limiting bank's willingness to lend out excess reserves.

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