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Stress index sinks to new low as Fed sedates markets
By Joe Rennison and Colby Smith
January 24, 2020, Financial Times
Stress in U.S. financial markets has dropped to its lowest level on record, according to a widely-watched index, after …
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Global Banks Rush Back Into Repo Markets
By Paul J. Davies
January 19, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Global banks’ use of funding from markets rather than from customer deposits has grown rapidly in recent years, mostly …
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It Wasn’t Just the Fed Keeping Repo Markets Cool at Year-End
By Stephen Spratt
January 16, 2020, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve was victorious in preventing a year-end squeeze in funding markets. But it had a little help from its friends.
A …
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Fed Fuels Rise in Assets Via ‘Derivative’ of QE, Kaplan Says
By Steve Matthews and Craig Torres
January 15, 2020, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve’s low interest rates, the perception that there is a high bar to future increases and expansion of …
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Federal Reserve to keep repo interventions at elevated levels
By Colby Smith
January 14, 2020, Financial Times
The Federal Reserve signaled that it plans to maintain its interventions in short-term funding markets at an elevated level, even after a …
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Hedge Funds Could Make One Potential Fed Repo Market Fix Hard to Stomach
By Daniel Kruger
January 14, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
One hurdle to a possible fix for recent volatility in the short-term cash markets: hedge funds.
Federal Reserve officials are …
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We Avoided the ‘Repocalypse’: PIMCO’s Jerome Schneider
Jerome Schneider, head of short-term portfolio management and funding at PIMCO, talks with Bloomberg’s Scarlet Fu about the repo market, the firm’s Enhanced Short Maturity Active ETF (ticker: MINT) and …
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ESMA publishes final SFTR guidelines
By Oliver Wade
January 6, 2020, Global Investor Group
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report and guidelines under the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), …
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Trading Picks Up but Debt Sales Wane for Fed’s Libor Replacement
By Daniel Krueger
January 7, 2020, The Wall Street Journal
Traders in the futures market are beginning to embrace the Federal Reserve’s proposed replacement for the troubled London interbank offered …
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Fed focuses on repo market exit strategy after avoiding year-end crunch
By Jonnelle Marte and Karen Bretrell
January 6, 2020, Reuters
Wall Street’s worst fears of a year-end funding squeeze never materialized thanks in large part to the quarter-trillion dollars the …
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