BoE report sheds light on Covid market operations

Surge in scale and frequency of operations amid switch to work from home created “issues”

Bank of England
The Bank of England
Daniel Hinge

A new in-depth report on market operations published by the Bank of England reveals some of the challenges the central bank faced during the opening stages of the Covid-19 crisis.

The BoE’s balance sheet expanded rapidly in March 2020, as the central bank relaunched its asset purchase programmes, conducted additional liquidity operations and brought new liquidity facilities online.

The report – the first of its kind – shows that the pace of bond-buying in the early stages of the crisis was as

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