The volume of sponsored repo activity in the clearinghouse was $230 billion as of December 31, according to Fixed Income Clearing Corporation (FICC), which is part of settlement giant Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. Of that, $137 billion were from money market funds, according to the US Office of Financial Research (OFR), up from nearly $35 billion at the end of 2017.
The full article in BNYM’s Aerial View magazine is available at https://www.bnymellon.com/us/en/what-we-do/markets/aerial-view-magazine/sponsored-repos-are-surging.jsp