Morgan Stanley: Fed buying programme has benefits beyond direct purchases
Analysis of the Federal Reserve’s Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) by Morgan Stanley analysts has found that its purchases of exchange traded funds ...
Norges Bank adopts Bloomberg E-Bond for government securities
Norges Bank, the central bank of Norway, has adopted Bloomberg E-Bond as the trading platform for its inter-dealer market in Norwegian government bonds and Treasury ...
How Fed bond buying is impacting markets
John Lonski, chief economist, Moody’s Capital Markets Research
Fed begins buying corporate bonds
The Federal Reserve Board has announced the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF), will begin buying a corporate bonds to support market liquidity and the ...
ICMA highlights key 'dysfunctional' areas of credit market
Andy Hill, ICMA. Courtesy: Zute Lightfoot www.lightfootphoto.com
JP Morgan and RBC added as eligible sellers to the Fed
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York funded Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) added JP Morgan and RBC as eligible sellers of securities as of 22 May. ...
Fed’s Treasury Market Practices Group sheds light on March liquidity crisis
Minutes of the 31 March meeting of the Federal Reserve’s Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), including an update on a 19 March call between members, has highlighted ...
Fed: No bond ETF fees for BlackRock; JP Morgan still AWOL
Under the new Federal Reserve asset purchasing programme, BlackRock, the asset manager which is acting as the trading function for the programme, will charge no asset ...
Citi and JP Morgan absent from Fed programme
The list of eligible dealers for the Fed’s bond and exchange-traded fund programme for the 12th May has been published and it is missing Citi and JP Morgan, two of the ...
Fed begins buying bond ETFs
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has begun to buy fixed income exchange-traded funds (ETFs) via its Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF).
BlackRock’s Rieder: Fed will buy at least $1.5 trillion in Treasuries in 2020
Rick Rieder, Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, BlackRock
The Fed and BlackRock's bond-buying criteria challenged
Detail around the Primary Market Corporate Credit Facility (PMCCF) and Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility (SMCCF) launched by the Federal Reserve Bank of New ...
The Fed opens registration for commercial paper facility
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has opened registration for firms wishing to sell to its Commercial Paper Funding Facility (CPFF).
Mark Carney says bitcoin has ‘pretty much failed’ as money
Speaking at Regents University on 19 February, Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said bitcoin, “has pretty much failed” on providing the traditional ...
