The Inter-Agency Working Group for Treasury Market Surveillance reported progress on efforts to ensure that the Treasury market "remains the deepest and most liquid market in the world and a central component of the financial system."
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In a newly issued report on COVID-19 related shocks to the U.S. Treasury market, the G30 offered recommendations to increase market resilience.
ISDA published its first "Risk Free Rates Adoption Monthly Indicator." The new report tracks how much trading activity is being conducted "in cleared over-the-counter and exchange-traded interest rate derivatives that reference the identified risk-free rates in six major currencies."
The FDIC encouraged financial institutions to support borrowers who are vulnerable to current market volatility.
U.S. Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) and Patrick McHenry (R-NC) introduced a bill that would require all eight U.S. financial regulators to enact a set of data collection and dispersion standards for reported information.