Capital markets blockchain weekly roundup

July 16, 2019

Bank of Japan, CBDC, crypto regulations, Securities and Exchange Commission, tZERO

Our weekly list of announcements about how capital markets and regulators are engaging with digital assets. NY authority licenses Seed CX for institutional crypto services The New York State Department…

Can Japan get out of its deflationary spiral? (Premium)

July 2, 2019

Josh Galper

Asia, Interest rates

Bank of Japan, deflation, interest rates, Japan, topstory

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The economic position of Japan in raising its interest rates and getting out of nearly 20 years of deflation is not going well. Can anything be done at this point,…

BoJ’s Amamiya says future of money is closer to data

October 31, 2018

Anna Reitman

News and Notes – Fintech

Bank of Japan, Big Data, Central Banks, Masayoshi Amamiya

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Excerpts from speech at the 2018 Autumn Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Monetary Economics, Bank of Japan deputy governor, Masayoshi Amamiya Digital payment instruments, unlike cash, can carry…

Asian bond rates and the UST 10 year: higher funding costs but Japan remains stuck

May 2, 2018

Josh Galper

Asia, Interest rates

Bank of Japan, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, topstory

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As US Treasury 10 year notes passed 3% for the first time since 2013, Asian markets reacted accordingly: equity prices fell and short-term funding costs jumped. Asia remains a big,…

The Bank of Japan comments on central bank digital currencies and a Bank of China former official says they are “inevitable”

April 25, 2018

Josh Galper

Asia, Cryptocurrency, Technology

Bank of China, Bank of Japan, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Riksbank, topstory

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Masayoshi Amamiya, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ), made some cautious but intriguing remarks at the IMF-JFSA-BOJ Conference on FinTech last week. He mentioned some stalwarts like big…

ECB and BoJ analyze securities settlement systems: delivery versus payment in a distributed ledger environment

March 28, 2018

Josh Galper

News and Notes, News and Notes – Fintech

Bank of Japan, DLT, ECB, settlement

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The main findings of the joint analysis, as detailed in this report, can be summarized as follows: DvP can run in a DLT environment subject to the specificities of the…

Regulatory roundup: Powell confirmation, UK Financial Stability, BoJ on local bonds, ECB on unsecured rates and more (Premium)

November 30, 2017

Josh Galper

Asia, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, ECB, Europe, Federal Reserve, Regulatory, US

Bank of England, Bank of Japan, ECB, Federal Reserve, LIBOR, Powell, Repo, Repo Clearing, topstory

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It’s been a brisk week for interesting regulatory announcements and discussions. This edition of regulatory roundup highlights key points for collateralized trading, including thinking about the direction of the Federal…

Finadium: Central Bank Tapering: Impacts for Liquidity and Collateral Markets

September 12, 2017

Josh Galper

Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Collateral Management, ECB, Federal Reserve, Investments, Liquidity Management

Bank of England, Bank of Japan, Central Banks, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Finadium, tapering, topstory

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Central bank tapering season is on the horizon: this means opportunities for price volatility, spread movements between products, and exchange rate fluctuations. It also means a potentially new set of…

We don’t envy the Bank of Japan’s choices in Quantitative Easing

August 14, 2017

Josh Galper

Asia, Interest rates, Investments

Bank of Japan, interest rates, Quantitative Easing, topstory

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What a lousy set of options. The Bank of Japan (BoJ) continues to work to bring inflation back to Japan, but with these herculean efforts has come little success and…

Nikkei: Crimped market ever reliant on BOJ lending government bonds

April 27, 2017

Josh Galper

News and Notes

Bank of Japan, collateral squeeze, Japan

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Editor’s Note: the collateral squeeze comes to Japan courtesy of the Bank of Japan. TOKYO — Unable to find the government bonds they need on the market, Japanese financial institutions…

Nikkei: Bank of Japan bond lending surges

March 2, 2017

Josh Galper

News and Notes

Bank of Japan, Japan, Securities Lending

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TOKYO — The Bank of Japan is rapidly increasing its lending of government bonds to financial institutions facing difficulty acquiring securities as the central bank’s own massive asset purchases deplete…

Japan joins the negative deposit rate club

March 23, 2016

Richard Stinchfield

Asia, Risk Management, Securities Lending, Shadow Banking, Short Term Interest Rate Benchmarks, Systemic Risk

Bank of Japan, capital costs, Central Banks, negative interest rates, topstory

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At the end of January, Japan’s became the latest central bank to drop deposit rates into negative territory, joining the likes of the ECB, Sweden, Switzerland and Denmark. This now…

Central Bank actions on FX Swaps will bolster securities financing markets

November 30, 2011

Jonathan Cooper

Featured, Liquidity Management, Repo, Securities Lending, Systemic Risk, Tri-Party Repo

Bank of Canada, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Federal Reserve, Finadium, FX Swaps, Repo, Securities Lending, Swiss National Bank, tri-party repo

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Today’s news of coordinated action by the major central banks to reduce the cost of FX swaps by 50bp and extending the program’s authorization until February, 2013 certainly captured the market’s…

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Capital markets blockchain weekly roundup

Can Japan get out of its deflationary spiral? (Premium)

BoJ’s Amamiya says future of money is closer to data

Asian bond rates and the UST 10 year: higher funding costs but Japan remains stuck

The Bank of Japan comments on central bank digital currencies and a Bank of China former official says they are “inevitable”

ECB and BoJ analyze securities settlement systems: delivery versus payment in a distributed ledger environment

Regulatory roundup: Powell confirmation, UK Financial Stability, BoJ on local bonds, ECB on unsecured rates and more (Premium)

Finadium: Central Bank Tapering: Impacts for Liquidity and Collateral Markets

We don’t envy the Bank of Japan’s choices in Quantitative Easing

Nikkei: Crimped market ever reliant on BOJ lending government bonds

Nikkei: Bank of Japan bond lending surges

Japan joins the negative deposit rate club

Central Bank actions on FX Swaps will bolster securities financing markets

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