Katie Craig

VP, U.S Rates Strategist - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Katie Craig is a Vice President in U.S. Rates Strategy at BofA Global Research and is responsible for publishing research and trade recommendations covering U.S. interest rates and macro strategy.

Katie’s team was recently ranked very highly in the most recent Institutional Investor survey across a range of categories including: #1 in US rates strategy, #1 in short duration strategy, #1 in interest rate derivatives, #1 in agency debt strategy, & #1 in Treasury inflation protected securities. They have held the #1 spot in most of these categories for the past several years. Having joined the firm in 2021, Katie specializes in formulating views on the U.S. front-end, Treasury supply, and Canada rates. Regular Research publications

include the Global Rates Weekly, Liquid Insight, and World at a Glance. Previously, Katie was a senior account associate at PIMCO for two years where she serviced corporate retirement accounts. Prior to PIMCO, Katie was an analyst in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she spent three years on the Open Markets Trading Desk conducting analysis on global macroeconomic conditions and financial markets. Katie earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Pace University. She is based

in New York.

All Sessions by Katie Craig

09:45 - 10:20

MONETARY POLICY

Adapting to monetary policy shifts and strategies to manage interest and liquidity risks

  • Assessing the impact of current central bank policy on interest rates
  • Understanding changes in monetary policy that affect funding costs & asset valuations
  • Repositioning the balance sheet under different monetary policy for interest rate cuts
  • Analyzing the policy rate adjustments and implications for interest rate risk
  • Reviewing the impact of monetary policy on liquidity risk and the availability of funding