Understanding the collateral shortage in the repo market. Examining the role of Japanese government bills, US treasuries, and ...

Governor Tiff Macklem announced that the Bank of Canada would start central clearing of repo markets as he outlined downside ...

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the OFR’s final rule and the data as well as reporting requirements that firms will have to meet. The Office of Financial Research (OFR) adopted a final rule which aims to ...

Leverage, liquidity issues and concentration risk within the global repo markets have the potential to create stress in the financial system, according to a new report – Vulnerabilities in Government ...

The Federal Reserve now plans to buy T-bills more actively as a means of adjusting reserves. This makes sense and aligns with our thinking. Fed officials will allow the MBS roll-off to continue, ...

Acute pressures in the overnight repo market around the end of the month have been on the market's "radar," and what's more relevant is whether these pressures "abate or persist" in the wake of those ...

'If banks determine that the repo market isn't working, then they might have to resort to liquidating other assets,' such as loans and stocks, should they need to raise cash, one economist says The ...

The repo market is the heartbeat of bond markets. Like a real heartbeat, when all is well, there is nothing more boring. But when things go wrong … watch out. So it is worth paying attention to a new ...

The Federal Reserve is struggling to persuade some banks to use a lending tool designed to improve the central bank’s control over short-term money markets. Banks have made more use of the tool, ...

The Bank of England is making crisis-era lending facilities more attractive to banks, as officials seek to limit growing turbulence in money markets. The central bank is revamping tools first launched ...

These concerns arise in the context of a Treasury market that has grown dramatically. The ratio of publicly held federal debt to GDP is now about 100 percent, and given the current US fiscal stance, ...