"The new guidelines are aimed at further tightening the oversight of the bond-issuance market and specifically cracking down on speculation and arbitrage between some investors and underwriters, " said Yang Weixue, a senior fixed-income analyst at Lianxun Securities.
But my best guess is that someone on that risk free arbitrage desk moved from risk free pure arbitrage into very definitely not risk free time arbitrage, or speculation as we should call it, then the market moved against his bet.