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Jan 28, 2025 · The Bank of England launched on Tuesday a new financial stability tool that insurers and pension funds can use during periods of turbulence in Britain's government bond market.

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What is the bank of England's new financial stability tool?

The Bank of England on Wednesday set out details of a new financial stability tool that insurers and pension funds will be able to use during severe turbulence in the British government bond market. ...

Will the bank of England buy gilts?

Already, the Bank of England has stepped in to provide some stability by buying gilts. This reflects the reality that there are real-life implications from bond market dislocation. Sharp volatility, in what is normally a stable corner of the financial markets, could spill over into the real economy. ...

Why did the bank of England launch a backstop gilt Purchase Facility?

Amid severe dysfunction in the UK government bond market in September 2022, when distressed forced selling of gilts by liability-driven investment (LDI) funds led to fire-sale dynamics, the Bank of England launched a temporary and targeted backstop gilt purchase facility. ...

What should be done to calm the gilt markets?

It may be that further steps have to be taken to calm the gilt markets down. As well as further central bank action, there may need to be adjustments by the Debt Management Office, which sells the bonds on behalf of the British government. Here are four possible next steps. First, shift issuance to shorter-dated maturities to ease supply pressures. ...

Why did the bank of England 'gilt' the UK bond market in 2022?

In 2022, the Bank of England put this theory into practice, to protect UK financial stability following severe dysfunction in the UK government bond (or ‘gilt’) market. ...

Why did the Bank announce a gilt market intervention?

On 28 September, following a recommendation from the FPC, the Bank announced a gilt market intervention on financial stability grounds, using temporary and targeted asset purchases to restore market functioning in long-maturity conventional gilts. ...