In this episode of The SIFMA Podcast, SIFMA President and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. reflects on the recent Member Briefing where he was joined by Scott Anderson, Ph.D., Chief US Economist and Managing Director at BMO and Co-Chair of the SIFMA Economist Roundtable, and Heidi Learner, Managing Director, Director of Research at SIFMA. Together, they unpack key takeaways from SIFMA’s 2025 End-Year Economic Survey.
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In this episode of The SIFMA Podcast, SIFMA President and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. reflects on the recent Member Briefing where he was joined by Scott Anderson, Ph.D., Chief US Economist and Managing Director at BMO and Co-Chair of the SIFMA Economist Roundtable, and Heidi Learner, Managing Director, Director of Research at SIFMA. Together, they unpack key takeaways from SIFMA’s 2025 End-Year Economic Survey.
Rethinking Leverage Ratios: Why US Treasuries Should Be Exempt
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Rethinking Leverage Ratios: Why US Treasuries Should Be Exempt
In this episode of The SIFMA Podcast, SIFMA Chief Operating Officer Joseph Seidel is joined by Dr. Guowei Zhang, Managing Director at SIFMA, to unpack the critical role of leverage ratios in the U.S. Treasury market – and why exempting them from leverage ratio calculations may be key to strengthening market resilience. Together, they explore: How current leverage ratio requirements, implemented in 2018, may limit banks’ capacity to intermediate in Treasury markets.SIFMA’s latest analysis quan...
The SIFMA Podcast
In this episode of The SIFMA Podcast, SIFMA President and CEO Kenneth E. Bentsen, Jr. reflects on the recent Member Briefing where he was joined by Scott Anderson, Ph.D., Chief US Economist and Managing Director at BMO and Co-Chair of the SIFMA Economist Roundtable, and Heidi Learner, Managing Director, Director of Research at SIFMA. Together, they unpack key takeaways from SIFMA’s 2025 End-Year Economic Survey.
