Extreme movements in the prices of bonds, commodities and other assets have prompted regulators at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to take a closer look at the inner workings of exchange traded funds.
Wall Street’s top regulator has been talking to the firms responsible for ensuring the smooth functioning of such ETFs as it seeks to gauge the resilience of the structures to sharp fluctuations in the underlying market they track.
Two “authorised participants” contacted by the New York Fed said the regulator was concerned that prices of ETF units might significantly diverge from the value of their underlying holdings, particularly if the funds tracked less