This Week's Top Stories

August 15 2019
The US Treasury is expected to issue another $800 billion in debt this year that primary dealers will need to purchase and either fund or find buyers for. The lack of demand for these securities has already been showing up in inverted US repo markets. It looks like more funding market stress is on the way. We go over the facts on the ground and speculate on outcomes.  
 
August 14 2019
Traiana is automating equity swaps processing and aims to become the central utility for dealing with daily reconciliations across trade, valuation and payments reporting: some of the most tedious manual processes in post-trade today. We spoke with Traiana’s Ryan Spencer about what buy- and sell-sides can expect from three implementation phases.