Ellen Correia Golay, Trevor Graney, Brian Greene, Erica Gutman, and Sara Kaddoura

As the deepest and most liquid securities market worldwide, the U.S. Treasury market plays a critical role in the global economy. With this in mind, every year, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) convene the official sector, public sector, and academia to discuss this important market. The U.S. Treasury Market Conference, held in September, marked the 10th of these annual forums.

Julie Lasson

On Thursday, September 26, New York Fed President John Williams spoke at the 10th U.S. Treasury Market Conference about how the annual interagency collaboration has strengthened the understanding of Treasury market resiliency and that of adjacent markets. He also shared news about the New York Fed’s ongoing commitment to ensuring that the financial system continues to stand on a strong foundation of reference rates.

Linda S. Goldberg, Fabiola Ravazzolo, Ricardo Correa, and Juan M. Londono

On May 20 and 21, 2024, the Federal Reserve Board and the New York Fed jointly hosted the Third Conference on the International Roles of the U.S. Dollar. The conference brought together researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to understand how changes in the global economic and financial landscape may affect the central role of the dollar.

Erica Gutman and Brian Greene

At the ninth annual U.S. Treasury Market Conference, Josh Frost, from the U.S. Department of the Treasury, moderated a panel soliciting perspectives on the future of the Treasury cash market. The panel included representatives from two asset management firms, a primary dealer, and the New York Fed. 

Ellen Correia Golay, Brian Greene, Sara Kaddoura, and Brett Rose

At the ninth annual U.S. Treasury Market Conference, Ellen Correia Golay, from the Markets Group at the New York Fed, moderated a panel on Treasury market resiliency and liquidity. The discussion, on November 16, 2023, considered the recent performance of the Treasury market amid higher volatility. It looked particularly at trading behavior, market resiliency, and liquidity, as well as potential initiatives to bolster the market’s resilience. The panel included representatives from a primary dealer, a hedge fund, an asset manager, a principal trading firm (PTF), and the New York Fed.

Leon Barker, Ellen Correia Golay, and Brian Greene

At the ninth annual U.S. Treasury Market Conference, David Bowman, from the Division of Monetary Affairs at the Federal Reserve Board, moderated a panel soliciting perspectives on trading practices, motivations, and risk management considerations in the non-centrally cleared bilateral repo (NCCBR) market. The panel included representatives from three broker-dealer firms, a hedge fund, and the Office of Financial Research (OFR). Although insight into NCCBR activity is relatively limited, it is estimated to be the largest Treasury repo market segment and acts as a major source of funding to nonbank financial institutions, particularly hedge funds.

Leon Barker, Ellen Correia Golay, and Brian Greene

The ninth annual U.S. Treasury Market Conference, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York last November, brought together market participants, official sector representatives, academics, regulatory authorities, and others to discuss ongoing developments in the U.S. Treasury market. The New York Fed sponsored the conference with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This year’s conference included several official-sector speeches and three panels.

Julie Lasson

On Thursday, November 16, 2023, New York Fed President John Williams spoke at the 2023 U.S. Treasury Market Conference about how transactions-based, transparent, and well-documented data is critical to the collective understanding and decision-making at the Federal Reserve and beyond.

Marco Cipriani, Antoine Martin, Patrick McCabe, and Will Riordan

In July 2023, the SEC issued a new set of reforms for the U.S. money market fund (MMF) industry. The reforms increase the amount of daily and weekly liquid assets a fund must hold, eliminate the link between weekly liquid assets (WLA) and the option to impose liquidity fees and redemption gates, and introduce a dynamic liquidity fee. This article describes some of the most important provisions of the reforms.