The Federal Reserve has asked for comments on their planned publication of three interest rates (along with the Office of Financial Research), including the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) selected by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee as an ultimate replacement for LIBOR. The planned rates are based on General Collateral (GC) tri-party and GCF Repo(R) transactions. This raises some pointed questions for the future of bilateral non-cleared UST repo.
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The fate of non-cleared bilateral repo for US Treasuries as the Fed prepares to publish repo benchmark rates (Premium)
