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The Wall Street giants that created thousands of Dublin jobs since Brexit are trying to balance the challenges created by their own government with the opportunities in a country that depends on U.S. multinationals for more than 10% of its jobs.

Interest-rate swaps showed traders now see a roughly 70% chance of a quarter-point rate cut by September. Fewer than two rate cuts are fully priced in for the year.

Investor confidence in US bonds can no longer be taken for granted — not after a years-long borrowing binge, not with a president hell-bent on rewriting the rules at home and abroad and antagonizing many of the country's biggest creditors.

Apollo will assume about $2.2 billion of private credit and renewable assets from Irradiant, while RRAM will add almost $11 billion of CLO assets to its firm.

The country hopes developing a secondary market for mortgages would allow banks to offer borrowers lower interest rates and improve the cost of home ownership.

Basel Endgame rules will dramatically boost the capital provisions banks have to set aside to backstop lending, with the burden falling most heavily on big money center banks.

The arrangement is part of a de-risking clause attached to a $5 billion strategy from Alterra, an investment vehicle launched during the COP28 summit in Dubai.

Now that the liquidations are nearly over, money managers will be able to turn their attention to the higher coupon mortgage bonds being produced today, effectively an increase in demand.

BlackRock will join an increasingly crowded field. Private equity and credit managers have been angling to buy dislocated assets from banks.

BlackRock's Financial Markets Advisory group has been selling off securities over the last two weeks, including pieces of collateralized loan obligations, commercial mortgage bonds and niche asset backed debt.