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Repo

A form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities, where the dealer sells the government securities to investors, usually on an overnight basis, and buys them back the following day.

Repo News

Industry
PostTrade 360°: CCPs seek balance between regulation and efficiency

EMIR has the potential to make the European market infrastructures globally competitive and provide more autonomy in case of a crisis, according to a panellist

Repo
Repo ADV climbs 30.8% YoY for August, says Tradeweb

The record global repo activity was driven by increased client activity on the firm’s electronic repo trading platform

Industry
Ownera and Adhara partner on digital cash and collateral

The collaboration looks to help institutions deliver digital cash and collateral solutions at scale in the foreseeable future

Repo
BrokerTec US repo ADNV up 1% YoY for August, says CME Group

Federal Reserve balances remain abundant while money market funds are still seeing new records and rely less on repo and the RRP service to invest their assets

Repo
Eurex Repo average daily volume down 36% YoY for August

Falls in Eurex Repo volume follows declines in average daily term-adjusted volume for GC Pooling and special repo

Repo
Industry calls for further guidance on all sustainability-related repo

The finding comes from the International Capital Market Association’s release of market feedback from its ‘2024 Repo and Sustainability Market Survey’

Industry
FICC’s Government Securities Division reports 30% YoY jump in daily activity

FICC’s Sponsored Service saw a new peak volume of US$1.4 trillion on 15 August, a 78 per cent growth YoY

Regulation
ISLA and ICMA publish GMRA Digital Assets Annex

The association looks to bring consistency to the legal terms used by market participants when trading certain digital assets under the GMRA 2011 and 2010