Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba
Ice’s Sprecher: institutional prediction bets ‘a matter of time’
Longer-term vision for ‘niche’ energy event contracts may be aided by recent Polymarket tie-up
CME’s Duffy warns against government intervention in oil markets
Exchange head doesn’t rule out possibility of oil hitting $150 a barrel
Hedge funds trim US swap spreads on tariff decision
Investors cut back asset swap positions as Supreme Court ruling reignites deficit concerns
Repo stress drove 2025 SOFR-to-fed funds swap pivot
SOFR OIS volumes slipped to almost half of fed funds activity during September repo spikes
Market-makers seek answers about CME’s cloud move
Silence on data centre changes fuels speculation over how new matching engine will handle orders
How US shutdown set off long-awaited basis bet
Hedge funds dust off a years-in-the-making relative value trade to profit from fallback mismatch
People: You’re fired! US agency rejig, new CROs at ING, StanChart, and more
Latest job changes across the industry
Keeping inflation markets open if government shuts down
Last year’s US government shutdown upset inflation trades; an Isda band-aid helped but a longer-term fix is needed
Citi launches core inflation QIS
Custom indexes eliminate energy and food prices to ease trading of stickier inflation trends
How Bessent learned to stop worrying and love the T-bill
Short-dated issuance shows no signs of slowing. Some fear it could end badly.
Bessent’s Treasury buy-back ‘success’ draws expansion warnings
BMO Treasury trading head warns of “overarching presence” as Treasury scales up programme
Crypto ETFs gatecrash the US Treasury repo market
Counterparty Radar: Volatility Shares tapped $13 billion in repo funding in Q2