Repo

New York Portfolio Clearing to be consolidated into ICE Clear Europe…Is there more to it than cost savings?

We have some more thoughts on Fed Governor Tarullo’s speech.

The Fed’s Tarullo: ideas for making SFTs safer

Corporate cash starting to go to tri-party

Zoltan Pozsar: "Shadow banking and the global financial ecosystem". A thoughtful new take on shadow banking.

CFTC rules on CCP liquidity facilities: Treasuries need to be covered.

Correction on our Fed Reverse Repo report

Finadium report: The Federal Reserve, Reverse Repo, Collateral and Benchmarks

What will be the gating factor in sec finance, the LCR or the Leverage Ratio?

Regulators ask for ISDA to delay derivatives liquidations; is repo next?

IOSCO builds new measurements for hedge fund leverage; this is a work in progress but shows good forward momentum

The FSB announces the 2nd phase of their study on securities financing; this time its all about haircuts

Mortgage REITs use of repo raising eyebrows at the Fed

Finadium’s Big Ideas Quarterly Q4 2013 is now online

France says European FTT goes too far – no kidding, but thanks for pointing it out

The Bank of England may have gotten into the collateral transformation business…will the Fed follow?

The Fed has released their LCR rules with a couple surprises

What will be the fate of risk assets if they are excluded from repo CCPs and tri-party fire sale solutions?

Finadium report: Collateralized Commercial Paper: Regulatory Arbitrage or Elegant Solution?

The CFTC and liquidity rules for DCOs: do they need committed repo facilities for their US Treasuries?

The US debt uncertainty starts to affect repo, and we are getting concerned

Where will all that required CCP and resolution authority liquidity actually come from?

Fed Governor Stein has some ideas on how to mitigate fire sale risk

Fed Governor Stein's speech on tri-party repo and fire sales: a primer on why the Fed cares so much

Some data on the Fed's Fixed-Rate, Full-Allotment Overnight Reverse Repos

Equity Repo in Europe suffering from familiar FI problems

Why gross up exposures for fully collateralized transactions? The ICMA and ISLA respond to new Leverage Ratio proposals.

Notes and presentation from Finadium's London repo event (Finadium subscribers only)

Demand for people with collateral management skills: banking's next hot job sector?

All roads lead to grossing up of repo exposures, so far

ICMA's 25th Repo Survey is released, showing market growth. But the really interesting part is about Italian banks and CCPs.

NY Times on Repo: "After a Financial Flood, Pipes Are Still Broken"

Lessons from Lehman: Collateral Shortages

Lessons from Lehman: Tri-Party Was the Bomb that Never Detonated

Register now: Finadium's London repo event Sept 26

More on the FSB report on securities lending and repo

Our analysis of the FSB’s securities lending and repo policy framework

Thursday news roundup: securities lending lawsuits, FSB on seclending CCPs, the Fed, securitization

Some data on Shadow Banking today (Finadium subscribers only)

More thoughts on the Fed Repo facility

Is the EU really thinking about restricting collateral chains? Boy, we hope not….

The Fed Open Market Committee minutes included a discussion of a new repo facility

Bloomberg article on the impact of regulatory reform for the repo market: is it cause and effect?

NY Fed Liberty Street Economics post on repo haircuts and fire sales: we think they may have missed some stuff

Liberty Street Economics: The Fed looks at the SOMA portfolio

Soberlook post on capital ratios and repo: do they get all of it right?