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JPMorgan | March 02, 2020

Banks likely hold the equivalent of $1.2 trillion worth of short positions in 10-year Treasuries, suggesting any rebound in yields could be capped if they cover their bets, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Expectations in 2018 for interest-rate rises from the Federal Reserve led banks to position themselves short duration, wrote strategists including Matthew Jozoff in a note Feb. 28. The recent “vicious” rate rally has exacerbated this already painful positioning and the financi...

World Bank | June 25, 2020

The World Bank has published a report analyzing options to enhance the transformative and catalytic impact of public climate finance by addressing systemic barriers to low-carbon and climate-resilient investments. Titled, ‘Transformative Climate Finance: A New Approach for Climate Finance to Achieve Low-carbon Resilient Development in Developing Countries,’ the report identifies eight sets of climate levers to drive climate action: project-based investments; financial sector r...

Cision PR Newswire | September 09, 2020

Fireblocks, an award-winning platform for securing digital assets, announced today that it has expanded support for the crypto derivatives market through a new integration with X-Margin. Together, X-Margin and Fireblocks allow the trading of derivatives on any asset, using any form of collateral while receiving cross-margin benefits across counterparties. As a distributed clearing network, X-Margin eliminates counterparty risk, while Fireblocks secures collateral and automates settlement w...

Wall Street | February 10, 2020

Wall Street resumed its rally from last week, with the Nasdaq hitting a record high on Monday, as a recent batch of strong domestic economic data and largely upbeat earnings overshadowed fears about the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on global growth. People returned to work in China after an extended new year holiday even as the country grappled with the epidemic that has now claimed more lives than Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). “Some people think the outbreak may have a v...