Repo
Risk Espana rankings 2012
Light at the end of the tunnel
Tri-party repo taskforce to disband without delivering key reform
The New York Fed's concerns about intra-day credit should be tackled by JP Morgan, BNY Mellon and DTCC, an industry taskforce concludes
Banks blame complexity for slipping tri-party reform targets
Reforms to $1.59 trillion tri-party repo market are set to miss industry deadlines, and could now spill into 2012
Repo 105: plaintiffs win ground on 'misleading' risk and leverage statements
Lehman executives and Ernst & Young lose fight to dismiss charges of deceit
Risk Espana rankings 2011
No fiesta
Tri-party repo reforms pose new challenges
Three's a crowd
Preparing for Solvency II
Solvency II: insuring for change
Credit derivatives house of the year: Credit Suisse
Risk awards 2011
Structured products house of the year: BNP Paribas
Risk awards 2011
In-house system of the year: Advanced Repo Curves, Barclays Capital
Risk awards 2011
SNB rejects Irish debt as collateral
Swiss National Bank excludes Irish sovereign debt and that of some Irish banks from list of collateral eligible for open market operations
Pension funds worried about CCP margin
Margin hunters
Axa offers ABS repo facility to banks
You repo what you sow
Bank funding blow from ECB repo withdrawal
As the European Central Bank winds down its repo facility, there are fears that traditional avenues of securitisation issuance are still not viable.
FSC clamps down on unsecured lending while bolstering Korean repo market
Reform to broaden the use of the onshore repo market in South Korea is expected to help smaller banks and financial institutions better manage their short-term funding and reduce systemic risk. It should also facilitate the development of interest rate…
Market prepares for rising RMB
Swap rates and NDFs show traders expect the Chinese currency to rise after the weekend saw the end of its dollar peg
Repo taskforce targets operational issues
The New York Federal Reserve is to reveal its aims for reducing risk in the tri-party repo market this month.
Negative repos distort dividend hedging strategies
Abnormally low repurchase rates are forcing banks to hedge their dividend exposures with swaps instead of forwards.
Icap launches repo settlement facility to reduce counterparty risk
Daily news headlines
BGC to launch hybrid dollar repo trading platform
Interdealer broker BGC of the United States plans to go live with a combined voice and electronic US dollar repurchase agreement (repo) trading platform early next year.
IIF makes further demands of Basel Committee
The Institute of International Finance (IIF), a Washington, DC-based trade association of more than 350 banks, has sent a letter to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision asking for further concessions in the final Basel II document.
Tri-party repo push for Europe
Europe's tri-party repo market may be ready to take off, thanks to the combination of tighter credit conditions and the provision under Basel II, the new Accord on bank regulatory capital, for lower charges on collateralised financing.
QIS3 results released by Basel Committee
A paper outlining the results of the third quantitative impact study (QIS3) was released by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision yesterday.