Dealer holdings of corporate bonds slid 77% from 2017 through the end of 2022 to $3.6 billion, while their average daily trading volume grew 29% to $37.7 billion, the financial services consulting firm said in a report Tuesday. During the same period, dealer daily transaction volume of US Treasuries jumped 22%, while their net holdings of government debt stayed roughly flat.
“Dealers are using less balance sheet to trade bonds with customers because they’d prefer not to and because they don’t have to,” wrote Kevin McPartland, Coalition Greenwich’s head of market structure research. “Bond dealers are increasingly acting as bond brokers by facilitating the movement of those bonds with little or no holding period in between.”
The Treasury market has grown to about $25.5 trillion from $13.9 trillion at the end of 2016. The corporate bond market stood at $10.6 trillion at the end of the second quarter, up from about $7.96 trillion, according to data from the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a trade association representing brokerages and investment firms.
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