The week Wall Street went into meltdown

It’s getting very ugly out there. Euromoney’s day starts with the head of the repo desk at one of the leading Wall Street firms, an experienced banker whose face can’t long disguise the exhaustion and strain.
What’s happening? “Even the people at the Fed and the ECB don’t get what’s happening. Firms are almost closing down the doors. They’re refusing to finance any more collateral from their existing clients than they did previously, just when unsecured short-term funding is closing down and more collateral is coming out.
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