Recently instituted rule amendments have initiated a large migration of dealer-to-client Treasury repurchase trades to central clearing. To date, the main avenue used to access central clearing is Sponsored Service, a clearing product that has, until now, received little attention. This post highlights the results from a recent Staff Report which presents a deep dive into Sponsored Service. Here, we summarize the description of the institutional details of this service and its costs and benef...| Liberty Street Economics
As regulatory pressures reshape European repo markets and balance sheet constraints weigh on dealers, buy-side firms are increasingly looking at clearing as a complementary part of their repo toolkit to ensure reliable access to liquidity in both daily operations and times of stress. At the same time, sell-side banks are pursuing balance sheet efficiency, further […]| Traders Magazine
Con los US$1.000 millones del Bonte 2030, el Tesoro ya tendría en su cuenta del BCRA los dólares necesarios para pagarle a bonistas en julio. El anuncio del REPO se daría en los primeros días de la semana que viene.| Bloomberg Línea
El índice que mide JPMorgan cedía este lunes a 569 unidades luego de que el BCRA concretara un Repo con bancos internacionales y a días de que el Gobierno efectúe pagos de deuda a bonistas privados| Bloomberg Línea
The Federal Reserve (Fed) implements monetary policy in a regime of ample reserves, where short-term interest rates are controlled mainly through the setting of administered rates, and active management of the reserve supply is not required. In yesterday’s post, we proposed a methodology to evaluate the ampleness of reserves in real time based on the slope of the reserve demand curve—the elasticity of the federal (fed) funds rate to reserve shocks. In this post, we propose a suite of comp...| Liberty Street Economics
