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New York Fed confirms repo rate compliance

22 January 2018 New York
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

An audit of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York uncovered that the effective federal funds rate and overnight bank funding rate are in compliance with principles for financial benchmarks

ICMA updates European repo guidelines

21 December 2017 Paris
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

ICMA’s IRCC has updated its guide for best practice in the European Repo Market

NSD working with Sberbank on triparty repo transactions

08 December 2017 Moscow
Reporter: Zsuzsa Szabo

Sberbank is using the National Settlement Depository (NSD), Russia’s central securities depository (CSD), to provide collateral management services for interdealer repo transactions, backed by NSD’s triparty services

Nex sees EU and US repo boost

04 December 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Nex Group reported a 25 percent increase to its European repo activity in November, and a 5 percent increase to its US repo activity for the same period

OFR adds repo to securities financing data collection

28 November 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The Office of Financial Research is set to expand its data collection of securities financing transactions to include bilateral and cleared repo, with the first report expected in the first half of 2018

HKMA expands list of eligible collateral to include US dollar

08 November 2017 Hong Kong
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The US dollar denominated bonds were first issued in Hong Kong by the Ministry of Finance of the People’s Republic of China on 2 November

NEX Group sees EU and US repo boost

02 November 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Nex Group achieved a 30 percent increase to its EU repo activity in October

Nigerian repo activity suffers in September

23 October 2017 Abuja
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

Nigeria’s FMDQ OTC Securities Exchange’s repo activity was valued down 41.7 percent in September compared to the previous month

Broadridge completes blockchain bilateral repo pilot

18 October 2017 New York
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The pilot, conducted in partnership with Natixis and Societe Generale, utilises distributed ledger technology in order to make complex processes “more secure, transparent and efficient”

Repo steps back from the brink

18 October 2017 London
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The European repo market may be recovering from the severe lack of liquidity experienced at year end 2016, according the International Capital Market Association

Philippines repo market to launch in November

09 October 2017 Manila
Reporter: Drew Nicol

The launch of a repo market was first proposed by Espenilla’s predecessor Amando Tetangco Jr in August 2016

Pilot repo survey reveals Japan as regional activity centre

26 September 2017 London
Reporter: Jenna Lomax

The survey, which was the first of its kind carried out by ICMA and ASIFMA, found the majority of repo collateral was made up of Japanese government bonds

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