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Analysis: US Money Market Funds, Advocates, Stake Out Positions as Crackdown Looms
By Pete Schroeder and Michelle Price
April 13, 2021, Reuters
Market participants this week staked out their positions on how to fix systemic risks in the $4.9 trillion US money …

US Money Markets Brace for Headaches as Debt Limit Draws Near
By Alex Harris
April 13, 2021, Bloomberg
Dollar-denominated funding markets are already facing myriad challenges that are distorting supply and demand, and these effects are only going to intensify as …

Banks, After Bracing for Disaster, Are Now Ready for a Boom
By Ben Eisen
April 13, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
The accelerating economic recovery is likely to boost bank profits.
Encouraged by government efforts to pump money into the economy …
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Fed’s Going to Have to sound ‘Less Dovish to Get Control of Bond Market’: Peter Boockvar
Peter Boockvar, Bleakley Advisory Group CIO, calls in to ‘The Exchange’ to discuss whether he thinks the Fed is starting to lose control of the bond market and what that …
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BOJ Sees Scope to Set Common Rules on CBDCs With Major Central Banks
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada
April 8, 2021, Reuters
A group of the world’s seven major central banks has scope to set common rules and platforms for their own …

US Marks ‘Critical Step’ on Tough Legacy Libor
By Oliver Wade
April 8, 2021, Global Investor Group
The US Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) is marking a “critical step” in the transition from Libor to the …

Fed Signals It’s Ready to Wield Power Over Short-Term Rates
By Alex Harris
April 8, 2021, Bloomberg
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stands ready to pull some of the central bank’s policy levers in between regularly scheduled meetings, if that’s …

Get Your COVID Relief Exit Plan Ready, Regulator Tells the G20
By Huw Jones
April 6, 2021, Reuters
While ending COVID economic relief measures too soon would present more of a threat to financial stability than leaving them in place too …

Five Banks to Test FedNow Real-Time Payments System
April 4, 2021, PYMNTS
The Federal Reserve’s FedNow program, intended to streamline the clearing and settlement process, will be tested by five Northern California regional banks and three credit unions …