Government bonds
Doomed loop: Europe gets creative on sovereign bond risks
Political and prudential risks in huge bond-holdings force experts to consider new ideas
Opened interest: foreign firms eye China's rate swap market
However regulatory and operational challenges set to slow growth
Mortgage investors grapple with negative swap spreads
Collapse of US swap rate creates problems for valuation models
SEC leverage ratio meetings alarm broker-dealers
US Treasury spread trades could face 850-fold jump in capital requirements
Bond fears prompt RBI caution on liquidity ratio reform
Moving away quickly from a dual liquidity regime could be "self defeating", says regulator
Negative swap spreads hit bank capital buffers
Portfolios of asset-swapped US Treasuries see mark-to-market losses of up to 20bp
SEC's White urges rules rethink for US Treasury venues
Current regime gives platforms easier ride on transparency
The fast and the furious: HFT in US Treasury markets
Dealers: we're 'sitting ducks' in Treasury market overrun by HFTs
Client list reveals HFT dominance on BrokerTec
Barclays and JP Morgan only banks on list of top interdealer firms for US Treasuries
Citadel shut out of Tradeweb as it makes US Treasury move
Firm is first non-bank on Bloomberg, but primary dealer catch means it cannot join Tradeweb
Liquidity events becoming more common, buy-siders claim
US Treasury market has seen eight intraday moves exceeding five standard deviations since 2012
Q&A: Visco of Bank of Italy on bank reforms and supervision
Splitting off prop trading would ‘complement’ EU resolution regime
Why Europe’s QE resembles a CDS trade
Minenna of Italy's market regulator warns of serious unintended consequences
In-depth introduction: Bonds
Interplay between rules could reshape demand for government debt
The hidden risks in dormant Basel III bond rule
Growing sovereign bond portfolios face new risks and mixed messages
DoubleLine warns of debt rollover risk
Asset manager plans to be liquidity provider if US credit market is distressed
Nouy: Europe should keep 3% leverage ratio
SSM chair also wants to end rule opt-outs that make banks "look stronger than they really are"
Sovereign risk manager of the year: IGCP
Portuguese debt office ensured clean exit from bailout while ending swaps disputes
UK isolated as Germany retains bond volatility filter
Banks in other big EU states will be able to sidestep Basel III
Government bond traders see difficult markets heading into 2014
Your word is my bond
Bravery, creativity and a lot of money: How to cure the eurozone
Politicians may be unwilling to consider it, but the eurozone’s problems could be solved through a slight twist on debt monetisation, argues Marcello Minenna
US debt ceiling a non-crisis, say hedge funds
The US government funding crisis did not spark panic among hedge funds, reports risk management consultant Investor Analytics
The great unwind: Buy-side fears impact of market-making constraints
Some buy-side firms are already calling it the great unwind – the migration out of the huge bond portfolios buy-side firms have built up in recent years, as rates eventually rise. But with dealers less able to play the role of liquidity provider, it…