liquidity news from FierceFinance

The last thing anyone wants to do is throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater. The industry's baby in this case is securitization, which ranks as perhaps the most profound financial movement... Read more...

We noted recently over on FierceFinanceIT that a few high-tech incubators of high-frequency trading start-ups were aiming to launch more funds soon. The whole field might get a boost if new... Read more...

Bloomberg notes that Citi (C) has built up its cash to impressive levels: $244 billion. That compares with about $130 billion 17 months ago. Whew! The problem is that it needs every cent, which means... Read more...

For all the angst we've experienced over securitization in the credit markets, the fact remains that if done well it can add a massive amount of liquidity to the system--and that fuels the economy.... Read more...

The buy-side is rearing its head as aggressively as ever. According to the Financial Times, the world's largest asset manager is bent on building out its own in-house trading platform. It has tapped... Read more...

Way back in July 2008, the CFTC charged a little known Chicago company called Optiver with manipulating the price of oil. The suit has drawn little attention to date, but the New York Times has just... Read more...

Meredith Whitney predicts 300 banks will fail in 2009. Thus far, 81 banks have failed in 2009 (View our special report on the U.S. banking collapse here.) Watch the full interview with Bloomberg

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People have been wondering about the ultimate fate of Fannie and Freddie, which were seized by the government last year. While they, no doubt, added liquidity to the system by securitizing all those... Read more...

Goldman Sachs has now paid to retire (at a decent price to taxpayers) all the warrants it issued the Treasury as part of the TARP program. It has paid back the $10 billion in TARP funds, of course.... Read more...

CIT is hardly a premiere bank, but it has historically been a big provider of credit to small companies. Unfortunately, as the economy tightened it had to cut back--to the chagrin of small business... Read more...