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News in-depthHaiti
Haiti nears transitional government in stand-off with gangs
...Henry, stranded in Puerto Rico after the airport closure prevented his return from overseas, agreed earlier this month under heavy diplomatic pressure to resign and hand power to the transitional council...
March 22, 2024
FT Asset Management
BlackRock’s transformational deal
...Hedge funds are challenging private equity firms over restrictions that dictate who can lend to or buy the debt of buyout-backed companies, weighing legal action to capitalise on a surge in corporate distress...
January 15, 2024
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival: U.S. edition
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Saturday, 4 MayThe REACH, at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, F Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
UnhedgedJennifer Hughes
The fragile mortgage market Premium content
...But banks are historically a big buyer of mortgage-backed securities. They’re not out of the woods yet — as shown by, and also because of, MBS prices....
May 26, 2023
X Corp
Fact-checking some dull bits of Elon Musk’s biography
...Because these bonds were backed by the US government, Musk believed that they would always be worth 50 cents on the dollar. However, some were selling as low as 20 cents....
September 22, 2023
Due Diligence
Diss from a Rose sealed NatWest CEO’s fate Premium content
...It’s expected to allow Banc of California, the surviving entity that had fewer losses to absorb, to sell $7bn of low-yielding mortgage loans and securities....
July 27, 2023
Global Economy
The pros and cons of QE — part ∞
...They are unimpressed: QE4 was initially aimed at mitigating strains in markets for Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities but was subsequently aimed more broadly at supporting market functioning...
February 10, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
Due Diligence
Private equity enters the emergency room Premium content
...The BoJ’s decision has set off the biggest sell-off in Japanese government bonds in almost two decades....
December 21, 2022
Brooke Masters
Asset managers may regret becoming the new banks
...securities, in case you’ve forgotten)....
October 5, 2022
US Treasury bonds
How to save the Treasury market
...First on its wish list is broadening access to the Federal Reserve’s standing repo facility, which allows financial institutions to borrow cash from the central bank using Treasuries and high-grade mortgage-backed...
September 13, 2022
Due Diligence
The little-known billionaires behind the Chelsea deal Premium content
...Governments worldwide are pouring stimulus funds into building makeovers in the name of energy efficiency....
May 12, 2022
The world in 2023
UK economists’ survey: ‘miserable’ year ahead for households
...Danny Blanchflower: Seems plausible if the government and the MPC U-turn. If not, then the recession will be deeper and longer lasting than the five-quarter-long Great Recession....
January 2, 2023
Equities
Nasdaq continues to fall as US stocks sell off
...At its two-day policy meeting next week, the central bank may also provide an update on plans to shrink its $9tn balance sheet and the ongoing taper of purchases of Treasuries and mortgage-backed bonds....
January 20, 2022
IPOs
Arm’s flotation on Nasdaq ‘a huge potential blow’ to London
...But the Scottish fund manager failed to garner enough support from fellow shareholders to rebuff the approach, said James Anderson, joint manager of Baillie Gifford’s £20.7bn Scottish Mortgage Investment...
February 11, 2022
News in-depthThoma Bravo LLC
Buyout firm Thoma Bravo goes from niche to big league
...A native of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Bravo, aged 51, moved to Rhode Island in the late 1980s to study and play on the tennis team at Brown University....
December 7, 2021
Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
The ten trillion dollar man: how Larry Fink became king of Wall St
...He was placed in its bond-trading department, and, given his real estate knowledge, was mainly trading mortgage-backed bonds. He proved a rare talent, and by 1978 was running the department....
October 7, 2021
FT Live
Innovation in Wealth Management Summit
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Thursday, 2 May9 Montague Close, London, UK
News in-depthUS Treasury bonds
Big investors stick with bets against bonds after painful run
...The Federal Reserve has committed to buying $120bn of US Treasuries and agency mortgage-backed securities each month until it achieves “substantial further progress” on its goals of a more inclusive recovery...
July 23, 2021
The Weekend Essay
Wall Street’s new mantra: green is good
...“This [climate story] reminds me of the formative years when I was a mortgage-backed securities trader,” he tells me....
January 29, 2021
Bonds
US subprime mortgage specialist seeks buyers for $1bn of assets
...Filings show that at the end of last year, 60 per cent of the fund was invested in “legacy” residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), which were first sold to investors before the last financial crisis...
March 23, 2020
Coronavirus
Federal Reserve taps BlackRock to manage bond purchases
...that will buy mortgage-backed securities issued by US government agencies....
March 25, 2020
Capital markets
Rating agencies brace for backlash after rash of downgrades
...In 2015, S&P agreed to pay the US and states about $1.4bn to settle allegations that it boosted ratings on mortgage-backed securities in the run-up to the crisis, admitting that it held off on downgrades...
April 3, 2020
Executive Pay
BlackRock chief Larry Fink receives 5% pay increase
...The company is managing three programmes to buy bonds, credit exchange traded funds and commercial mortgage-backed securities for the New York branch of the Federal Reserve....
April 10, 2020
BlackRock Inc
BlackRock’s Fink keeps door open to acquisitions
...Last week, BlackRock's consulting arm was hired by the Federal Reserve to oversee three programs to buy bonds, credit ETFs and commercial mortgage-backed securities....
March 30, 2020
FT CollectionsTech battlegrounds
BlackRock’s black box: the technology hub of modern finance
...As toxic mortgage-backed securities tore through the financial system more than a decade ago, the US government turned to Larry Fink, one of their earliest pioneers, for help....
February 24, 2020
News in-depthBlackRock Inc
Fed’s big boost for BlackRock raises eyebrows on Wall Street
...One programme will buy bonds directly when they are issued; another will purchase bonds on the secondary market and buy ETFs; and a third will purchase commercial mortgage-backed securities....
March 27, 2020
Lunch with the FT
José Andrés: ‘I believe a force for good will take over’
...When Hurricane Maria pulverised Puerto Rico in 2017, he delivered more than 3.7m meals across the stricken island — often putting the combined emergency relief of the far larger Federal Emergency Management...
May 22, 2020

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