Yellen Taking Steps to Enhance Treasury Market, Boost Funds Resilience

Yellen Taking Steps to Enhance Treasury Market, Boost Funds Resilience
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen participates in a discussion at the annual Freedman's Bank Forum at the Treasury Department in Washington on Oct. 4, 2022. Michael A. McCoy/Reuters
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The U.S. Treasury is taking steps to strengthen the resilience of the Treasury debt market and private money market and bond funds, but the U.S. financial system is functioning well despite elevated global volatility, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday.

Yellen, speaking to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) annual meeting in New York, acknowledged that liquidity in the vast Treasuries market has diminished, raising costs, but this and other parts of the U.S. financial system have not been a source of financial instability.