FX swap users hope to avoid month-end crunch
Blowout in spreads prompted SSGA and other managers to limit need for hedges today
Asset managers have been trying to avoid a liquidity crunch in the foreign exchange swaps market by executing more of their vast hedging programmes ahead of today’s (March 31) month-end roll.
The move is an attempt to ease the burden on dealers that facilitate hundreds of billions of dollars in swaps trades during the days approaching the end of each month. In a sign of scarce liquidity, bid/offer spreads for major swaps currencies blew out more than tenfold from mid-March. They have since
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