Sberbank is using the National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD), to provide collateral management services for interdealer repo transactions, backed by NSD’s triparty services
Nex Group reported a 25 percent increase to its European repo activity in November, and a 5 percent increase to its US repo activity for the same period
The Office of Financial Research is set to expand its data collection of securities financing transactions to include bilateral and cleared repo, with the first report expected in the first half of 2018
The pilot, conducted in partnership with Natixis and Societe Generale, utilises distributed ledger technology in order to make complex processes “more secure, transparent and efficient”
The European repo market may be recovering from the severe lack of liquidity experienced at year end 2016, according the International Capital Market Association
The survey, which was the first of its kind carried out by ICMA and ASIFMA, found the majority of repo collateral was made up of Japanese government bonds
