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SIFMA Finds Support for Shift in Benchmarking of 20-Year US Corporate Bonds
By Dan Barnes
March 10, 2021, The Desk
The spread for many legacy 20-year US corporate bonds is benchmarked against the 30-year Treasury, but trade body SIFMA has found support …
Fear That Fed’s Main Rate Will Drop Too Low Is Starting to Abate
By Alex Harris
March 9, 2021, Bloomberg
The rate that the Federal Reserve targets to control monetary policy is defying the skeptics by holding firmly above zero, prompting a rethink …
Crowded Bet Against 10-Year Treasury Hits Repo Market
By Julia-Ambra Verlaine and Sebastian Pellejero
March 9, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
Investor bets on rising US interest rates are testing the short-term cash markets that serve as the …
Bank Regulation Tweak Unlikely to Be Cure-All for Treasuries
By Telis Demos
March 9, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
Sometimes the arcana of bank regulation becomes a matter of market fascination. Often it ends up not being quite as …
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US 10-Year Treasuries Borrowing Rate in Repo Market Goes Negative, Indicating Stress
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Kate Duguid
March 4, 2021, Reuters
The cost of borrowing US 10-year Treasuries in the overnight repurchase, or repo market, went deeply negative on Thursday, analysts …
The Fed Must Avoid a Repeat of the March Treasuries Mystery
By Gillian Tett
March 4, 2021, Financial Times
This month, a “whodunnit” — or “what-did-it” — mystery hangs over markets. No, this is not about gyrations in bitcoin prices or …
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At Big US Banks, Treasury Holdings Grew Over $350 billion in 2020
By Louie Woodall
March 4, 2021, Risk
Holdings of Treasury securities by the eight US global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) increased a whopping 42% over 2020 to $1.19 trillion.
JPMorgan …
Analysis: Fixed Income Markets Wary of Fed Decision on Bank Capital Relief
By Karen Brettell and David Henry
March 2, 2021, Reuters
Anxiety is building in bond and short-term funding markets over a pending regulatory change that could cause big Wall Street …
Derby’s Take: After Bond Market Tumult, Some See Need for Stronger Fed Response
By Michael Derby
March 2, 2021, The Wall Street Journal
Some economists and market participants believe the Federal Reserve needs to speak more directly to a bond market that has …
A $21 Trillion Treasuries Mystery Is Bedeviling Global Markets
By Liz Capo McCormick, Tracy Alloway, and Stephen Spratt
March 3, 2021, Bloomberg
Bond traders have been saying for years that liquidity is there in the world’s biggest bond market, …
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion
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MiFID II Review to Look at Systematic Internalizers
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Blast From the Past: EU Tells Traders Working From Home: Take Notes if You Can’t Record Calls
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Blast From the Past: EU Watchdog to Nudge Bond Trades Closer to Real-Time Transparency
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Blast From the Past: Traders Across Europe Face Up to the Cost of Failure
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Blast From the Past: Passive Investing Boom Reaches Europe as Assets Hit $1 Trillion