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Repo

A form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities, where the dealer sells the government securities to investors, usually on an overnight basis, and buys them back the following day.

Repo News

Repo
BNY expands breadth of intraday repo offering

This milestone demonstrates the expansion of BNY’s intraday repo capabilities beyond the US dollar, enabling new opportunities for liquidity optimisation

Repo
LCH RepoClear and Clearstream expand collaboration

The enhancement will allow LCH RepoClear clearing members to settle Dutch debt instruments within Clearstream’s fully harmonised, cross‑border post‑trade environment

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Clearstream unlocks intraday market liquidity

The firm’s new offering builds upon the existing repo model by allowing clients to open and close repo trades at any point during the day

Regulation
SEBI approves intraday borrowing for mutual funds

The move intends to bridge the intraday timing mismatch of inflow and outflow of funds

Repo
State Street selected by LME Clear

Both firms have commenced activity with a global agency repo service, including agency trading, to support LME’s cash reinvestment activity and enhance LME Clear’s portfolio liquidity management

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Broadridge’s DLR platform reaches US$362 billion ADV for February

The rise in average daily trade volumes reflects continued institutional adoption of tokenised real asset settlement at scale and the growing role of distributed ledger technology, the firm says

Repo
Eurex Repo trading volumes rise 86% YoY for February

The rise was driven by an increase in average term-adjusted volume for both GC Pooling (85 per cent) and special repo (88 per cent)

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Repo ADV climbs 21% YoY for February, reports Tradeweb

Average daily volume across all asset classes for the month of February reached US$3.1 trillion, up 23.4 per cent year-on-year