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US Regulator Underlines Importance of Repo
By Oliver Wade
February 22, 2021, Global Investor Group
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has underlined the importance of the repo market with the release of a new …
Do Not Rule Out a Market Panic Next Month
By John Dizard
February 19, 2021, Financial Times
“Beware the Ides of March” (Julius Caesar, act one scene two)
Everybody seems to be having a hard time finding the most …
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SEC Is Looking Into Wild Swings in Retail Trading, Plus the Regulatory Impact of Short Selling
Yahoo Finance’s Alexis Keenan joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel to discuss the SEC’s statement on GameStop’s market volatility.…
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Dollar Libor Falls to Record Low as Cash Glut Weighs on Rates
By Alex Harris and Benjamin Purvis
January 29, 2021, Bloomberg
An abundance of cash in the market for US dollar short-term borrowing pushed one of the world’s major interest rate …
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like US Treasuries?
By Mark Baker
January 28, 2021, Euromoney
In normal times the Federal Reserve Bank of New York publishes a monthly breakdown of its purchases of US Treasury securities, showing the …
Fed Ending Term Repos Reflects Liquidity Feast for Dealers
By Alex Harris
January 27, 2021, Bloomberg
The Federal Reserve’s decision to discontinue its regularly scheduled term repos reflects a financial system that is now awash in liquidity.
The New …
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Repair the Leverage Ratio, Revive the Repo Market
By Benedict Roth
January 25, 2021, Risk
Last March’s market crash provided a real-time stress test for the banking sector’s post-financial-crisis reforms. Mostly they passed. Bank capital ratios remained stable …
Brookings Institution: Loose Ends in the US Treasury Market
By Dan Barnes
January 7, 2021, The Desk
A paper published by Nellie Liang, the Miriam K. Carliner senior fellow in Economic Studies at the think tank Brookings Institution and …
Stress Test Looms for Financial System in 2021
By John Plender
January 5, 2021, Financial Times
Be warned. The global financial system in 2021 will face a gigantic stress test.
This follows from one of the more important …
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Money market funds need reform to prevent runs, US regulators say
By Colby Smith
December 22, 2020, Financial Times
A group of powerful financial regulators have called for sweeping reforms to US money market funds after the $4.9tn industry showed signs …
