Denmark FSA investigating bond funds’ double-figure losses
Sources report the Danish Financial Services Authority (DFSA) has launched an investigation into fund losses from mortgage bond holdings, as rising interest rates have...
The $21.6 trillion question: How many regulators does it take to change a lightbulb?
The US$21.6 trillion US Treasury market is confounded by a lack of transparency and very short-term liquidity provision, according to a new joint staff...
TMPG meets to discuss key challenges in the Treasury market structure
The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), an industry roundtable coordinated by the US Federal Reserve (The Fed) met on Tuesday 19 October to discuss...
CME Group: Expectation of rates rises for BoE in December 2021 and Fed in...
The CME Group’s central bank observations tools BoEWatch and FedWatch show that market expectations indicate increasing probability of a Bank of England rate rise...
US Treasuries: You can’t handle the truth
Editorial by Dan Barnes.
Nobody wants responsibility for the US Treasuries market. We checked.
In 2014 The DESK approached every US financial regulator and authority to...
On The DESK : Alex Brause : The central bank’s buy-side trader
Balancing leadership and discipline with greater autonomy in trading. Alexander Brause speaks to The DESK and explains his role as head of fixed income...
UPDATE: Fed to end supplementary leverage ratio, talks down tapering
The federal bank regulatory agencies today announced that the temporary change to the supplementary leverage ratio, or SLR, for depository institutions issued on 2020,...
How traders weathered the Treasury sell-off
The US Treasury’s auction of seven-year notes last Thursday saw the lowest investor appetite ever, according to some sources, leaving primary dealers holding the...
Repo markets are back in focus for the Fed’s Treasury Market Practice Group
The US Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practice Group (TMPG) has focused this month on discussing the status of repurchase agreement (repo) clearing and settlement...
Bank of England tacitly acknowledges impact of capital rules on market making
The identical nature of proprietary trading and market making has been highlighted in a paper published by the UK’s Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) the...
