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BoE shifts focus to non-banks in sovereign bond markets

Aggregated data on leverage and positioning reveals growing gilt repo borrowing by hedge funds

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The Bank of England has begun publishing more information about how non-banks have been trading in sovereign bond markets, in an effort to provide a more comprehensive picture for market participants.

In the record of its latest meeting, published today (July 9), the bank’s financial policy committee (FPC) noted that non-banks had become more important to core bond markets and that their trading strategies could evolve over time.

The FPC said it would be publishing “aggregated information on

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