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APAC attains US$310.9 billion in outstanding repo value, says ICMA

05 December 2022 Asia-Pacific
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

The survey, covering the Asia-Pacific non-Japan region, reveals a 48.3 per cent YoY rise in average daily turnover for repo transactions to US$43 billion, with intra-regional activity rising at the expense of trading with non-APAC counterparties

SFTS: Repo market is crucially important and prone to vulnerabilities

24 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Repo is the cornerstone of the financial system, a market which has become essential for liquidity and collateral management — “if the repo market does not work, none of it works,” said ICMA senior director Andy Hill

DBS becomes first bank in Asia to complete an intraday repurchase via blockchain network

23 November 2022 Asia
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

DBS has become the first bank in Asia to complete an intraday repurchase transaction on J.P. Morgan’s intraday repurchase application via Onyx Digital Assets

State Street launches peer-to-peer financing platform

17 November 2022 US
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

Venturi, built through a partnership with FinOptSys, will connect buy-side firms with new sources of liquidity in the global repo space

Astana exchange applies Exactpro’s testing framework for cloud-native Repo Market

17 November 2022 UK
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

To help increase the operational resilience of AIX’s Repo Market and provide information on its quality, Exactpro used th2 — a Kubernetes-driven microservices framework for functional and non-functional testing

European repo market size grows 10.9% YoY for June, says ICMA

31 October 2022 Europe
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

ICMA’s ERCC has published the latest European Repo Market Survey which reveals the total value of repo contracts outstanding on 8 June 2022 as €9,680 billion, a record high

Repo market plays more active role in sustainable finance, says ICMA

26 October 2022 Switzerland
Reporter: Carmella Haswell

ICMA’s Repo & Sustainability Taskforce has published a paper reflecting on recent market developments and explores the intersections between repo and sustainable finance

FSB examines repo market stability under stress conditions

20 October 2022
Reporter: Bob Currie

The Financial Stability Board has outlined policies to improve the resilience of liquidity access in stress conditions, which includes wider use of central clearing and attracting new non-bank intermediaries through “all-to-all” trading platforms