Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had two articles on interest to money market fund professionals and investors: "Money-Market Loan Facility Planned", which describes a scheme by the London-based Institutional Money Market Funds Association to "allow banks to borrow money from central banks or other commercial banks using the shares in such funds as collateral," and "Help Nears for Auction-Rate Holders", which describes yet another scheme to assist the frozen aution-rate preferred securities market.