U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday proposed long-awaited regulations -- including liquidity, redemption and pricing rule changes -- to improve the resilience and transparency of the roughly $5 trillion U.S. money market fund industry.
All the major asset managers and bank groups, including BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs offer money market funds.Because money market fund investors generally expect immediate liquidity with little volatility, they are easily spooked when those expectations are not met during market stress, according to a U.S. Treasury Department discussion paper published last year.
The panic was reminiscent of 2008 when a run on money market funds threatened to freeze up global markets and prompted the government to backstop the sector. In 2010 and again in 2014, the SEC introduced changes aimed at reducing the risk of investor runs, but last year’s turmoil showed those changes were inadequate, say critics. They say the industry now has an implicit government backstop which needs to be fixed.
Why not do the same for crypto?
Big Short 2.0