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Money Fund Overhaul Shakes Up Short-Term Financing

Foreign banks shift funding to areas such as repo agreements.

By Alexandra Harris and Liz McCormick, Bloomberg | Updated on April 03, 2017

Regulators’ effort to stamp out risk in the $2.6 trillion U.S. money-fund industry is creating unintended ripple effects across financial markets, with far-reaching consequences for companies and investors.

Far less cash than anticipated has returned to the higher-yielding slice of the money fund world after the overhaul that took effect in October led to a $1 trillion exodus from what are known as prime funds. Such funds had been the principal buyers of the commercial paper that companies and both foreign and domestic banks have sold for decades to obtain short-term U.S. dollar-denominated financing.

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