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The asset manager will serve “as a third-party vendor to operationalize these purchases and transact with the primary dealers,” the New York Fed said.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

In need-for-speed markets lashed by the spreading coronavirus, this breed of rules-based trading is paying off.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.

The platform aims to "assist … in meeting demands for redemptions” as alarm over the coronavirus continues to cause strains in short-term funding markets.

The firm had received margin calls from counterparties including BNP Paribas after its trades went awry, people familiar with the matter said.

The VanEck fund’s sell-off was so violent that it triggered the SEC’s alternative uptick rule.

Lenders have been ringing up investment firms and hedge funds to garner interest in financing to companies in industries upended by the coronavirus.