America’s regulators say new rules will help maintain the dominance of US Treasuries, and there are still weaknesses in regional banking a year after the failure of Silicon Valley Bank. Plus, a new Bain & Co report reveals that private equity groups are sitting on a record of unsold assets.
Mentioned in this podcast: The radical changes coming to the world’s biggest bond market Number of weak US banks jumps as NYCB stabilised on $1bn capital raise Dealmaking slowdown leaves private equity with record unsold assets The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian and Marc Filippino. Additional help by Zach St. Louis, Saffeya Ahmed, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Monica Lopez. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.co