10 February 2023Switzerland Reporter: Carmella Haswell
ICMA’s European Repo and Collateral Council has welcomed 19 individuals to form its 2023 committee, including AXA Investment Managers’ Charlie Badran, BlackRock Investment Manager’s Emma Cooper and Eurex Repo’s Frank Gast
The bilateral swap and repo lines have been established since 2020 to provide euro liquidity to financial institutions via non-euro area central banks in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
This service aims to enhance the liquidity of a basket of sovereign eurobonds, with issuers including Angola, Egypt and Kenya, and to encourage investments related to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
05 December 2022Asia-Pacific Reporter: Carmella Haswell
The survey, covering the Asia-Pacific non-Japan region, reveals a 48.3 per cent YoY rise in average daily turnover for repo transactions to US$43 billion, with intra-regional activity rising at the expense of trading with non-APAC counterparties
Repo is the cornerstone of the financial system, a market which has become essential for liquidity and collateral management — “if the repo market does not work, none of it works,” said ICMA senior director Andy Hill
DBS has become the first bank in Asia to complete an intraday repurchase transaction on J.P. Morgan’s intraday repurchase application via Onyx Digital Assets
To help increase the operational resilience of AIX’s Repo Market and provide information on its quality, Exactpro used th2 — a Kubernetes-driven microservices framework for functional and non-functional testing
ICMA’s ERCC has published the latest European Repo Market Survey which reveals the total value of repo contracts outstanding on 8 June 2022 as €9,680 billion, a record high
26 October 2022Switzerland Reporter: Carmella Haswell
ICMA’s Repo & Sustainability Taskforce has published a paper reflecting on recent market developments and explores the intersections between repo and sustainable finance
The Financial Stability Board has outlined policies to improve the resilience of liquidity access in stress conditions, which includes wider use of central clearing and attracting new non-bank intermediaries through “all-to-all” trading platforms
