Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba
Steepener exits leave traders in search of direction
Uncertainty clouds US rates market as hedge funds pare back steepener positions
Sharper economic picture sets scene for dollar swaps rebound
Razor-thin bid/offer spreads and slim post-April trading volumes give way to an uptick in August
The investors who aren’t fretting over Trump’s stat sulk
Some see dismissal of statistics agency chief as an assault on US institutional integrity; for others it offers a chance to throw off outdated methods
People: Rates revamp at Nomura, JP’s structuring shuffle
Latest job changes across the industry
Fed’s new leverage ratio: the horse that never left the gate
Most of the biggest dealers aren’t leverage constrained now, and experts are sceptical that banks will use the extra capacity for Treasuries
PNC’s Demchak – SLR reform all about hedge fund capacity
Chief executive says proposals mainly designed to allow hedge funds to buy growing US Treasuries stockpile
Bank of America extends repo cash borrowing surge with Pimco
Counterparty Radar: US bank's mutual fund repo borrowing jumps five-fold in six quarters to pull away from rivals
NY Fed’s push for repo haircuts gets a tepid response
New risk management standards could make it harder to finance US Treasury purchases
Hedge funds scale back steepener positions as risks rise
Uncertainties around US Treasury issuance and timing of rate cuts see investors trim ‘consensus’ trade
Macro traders tread carefully ahead of tariff pause deadline
Uncertainty has held buy-siders back from both hedging and directional trades
Leverage ratio reform: the good, the bad and the Treasury
A simple cut would be less likely to stoke interest rate risk than exempting US government bonds
How BrokerTec, MarketAxess fared during Treasury rout
Electronic bond trading platforms see spike in volumes and small growth in market share, Risk.net analysis shows