Hal S. Scott
Harvard Law School
John Gulliver
Program on International Financial Systems; Committee on Capital Markets Regulation
Jon Ondrejko
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation
Samuel Holt
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation
November 2021
This report is the first in a series of reports by the Program on International Financial Systems on enhancing the market structure for trading U.S. Treasuries (“cash Treasuries”) and for repurchase agreements of U.S. Treasuries (“Treasury repos”). In this report, we assess whether policymakers should mandate central clearing in both markets. In future reports we will consider whether policymakers should require the public disclosure of transaction-level data and evaluate design considerations for the standing Treasury repo facility.