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07.01.2021

The increase in outstanding Treasury debt versus the Effective Funds Rate The general collateral repo (GC) repo market is what keeps the US government  30 Sep 2019 A repo, short for repurchase agreement, is an exchange of collateral, Aside from the Fed's operation, the private market general collateral repo rate for The Treasury repo rate on Friday was around 1.90% at the open in  borrow from money market funds and other investors against US Treasury and 2 GC Pooling Deferred Funding rate is an index based on GC repo transactions  1 Apr 2019 These rates include all trades in the broad general collateral rate plus bilateral Treasury repurchase agreement (repo) transactions cleared 

20 Sep 2019 But as the repo rate (GC, or general collateral using US Treasuries) surged to nearly 3% (according to DTCC) on Monday, it spilled over into 

15 May 2019 Overnight Treasury GC Repo Primary Dealer Survey Rate (%). Since the late 1990s, the Open Market Trading Desk at the New York Fed has  Someone is borrowing money, using a bond as collateral. Most of the time, the first definition applies, and there is a general repo rate, and one Some Treasury securities— typically recently issued securities—the financing rate is lower  20 Sep 2019 But as the repo rate (GC, or general collateral using US Treasuries) surged to nearly 3% (according to DTCC) on Monday, it spilled over into  The SOFR includes all trades in the Broad General Collateral Rate plus bilateral Treasury repurchase agreement (repo) transactions cleared through the 

28 Mar 2018 (SOFR), Broad General Collateral Rate (BGCR) and Tri-Party Regarding the Publication of Overnight Treasury GC Repo Rates,” Fed.

The GCF Repo® service enables dealers to trade general collateral repos, based on rate, term, and underlying product, throughout the day without requiring intra-day, trade-for-trade settlement on a Delivery-versus-Payment (DVP) basis. In its recent “Statement Regarding the Publication of Overnight Treasury GC Repo Rates,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, in cooperation with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research, announced the potential publication of three overnight Treasury general collateral (GC) repurchase (repo) benchmark rates. Each of the proposed rates is designed to capture a particular segment of repo market activity. (For those who are curious, it was the “general collateral” repurchase agreement rate, or the “repo” rate, that banks pay to borrow reserves overnight in exchange for safe collateral like Previously, in March, the Fed released “a time series of the volume-weighted mean rate of the primary dealer’s overnight Treasury general collateral repo activity. . .” which it calculated from its surveys of the primary dealers. The Fed also released indicative historical rates for the SOFR rate going back to August 2014.

Introducing the Revised Broad Treasuries Financing Rate Kathryn Bayeux, Alyssa Cambron, Marco Cipriani, Adam Copeland, Scott Sherman, and Brett Solimine Editor’s notes: When this post was first published, the linked file with historical rates and volumes for the three Treasury repo rates had some minor errors.

The Request for Information indicated that this rate would be a measure of rates on overnight, specific-counterparty tri-party Treasury general collateral (GC) repo. This rate would be calculated based on transaction-level tri-party repo data collected from the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) under the Board's supervisory authority. On special:The condition of a repo rate when it is below the general collateral rate (when R < r). On the run:The most recently issued Treasury security of a given original term to maturity—for example, the on-the-run ten-year Treasury note. Reopening: A Treasury sale of an existing bond that increases the amount outstanding. GC or general collateral is a set or basket of security issues which trade in the repo market at the same or a very similar repo rate, which is called the GC repo rate. GC securities can therefore be substituted for one another without changing the repo rate much, if at all. General collateral financing (GCF) trades are a type of repurchase agreement (repo) that is executed without the designation of specific securities as collateral until the end of the trading day. GCF trades utilize several inter-dealer brokers, who act as intermediaries for the GCF trades. Treasury Repo “Specials”: A security is said to be trading “special” in repo if it is trading at a rate below that of the tri-party GC rate. That is to say, specials' trading indicates that a specific security is particularly sought after in the repo market, as cash lenders are willing to accept a lower rate for this specific security. A repurchase agreement, or 'repo', is a short-term agreement to sell securities in order to buy them back at a slightly higher price.

18 Sep 2019 N.Y. Fed Takes $75 Billion of Securities, Treasuries in Repo Op For instance, the rate for general collateral repurchase agreements has 

The Tri-Party General Collateral Rate (TGCR) is a measure of rates on overnight, specific-counterparty tri-party general collateral repurchase agreement (repo) transactions secured by Treasury securities. General collateral repo transactions are those for which the specific securities provided as collateral are not identified until after other terms of the trade are agreed. The DTCC GCF Repo Index is composed of the following two most traded GCF Repo-eligible CUSIPs: (1) U. S. Treasury < 30-year maturity (371487AE9); and (2) Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Fixed Rate MBS (371487AL3). The Request for Information indicated that this rate would be a measure of rates on overnight, specific-counterparty tri-party Treasury general collateral (GC) repo. This rate would be calculated based on transaction-level tri-party repo data collected from the Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) under the Board's supervisory authority. On special:The condition of a repo rate when it is below the general collateral rate (when R < r). On the run:The most recently issued Treasury security of a given original term to maturity—for example, the on-the-run ten-year Treasury note. Reopening: A Treasury sale of an existing bond that increases the amount outstanding. GC or general collateral is a set or basket of security issues which trade in the repo market at the same or a very similar repo rate, which is called the GC repo rate. GC securities can therefore be substituted for one another without changing the repo rate much, if at all. General collateral financing (GCF) trades are a type of repurchase agreement (repo) that is executed without the designation of specific securities as collateral until the end of the trading day. GCF trades utilize several inter-dealer brokers, who act as intermediaries for the GCF trades. Treasury Repo “Specials”: A security is said to be trading “special” in repo if it is trading at a rate below that of the tri-party GC rate. That is to say, specials' trading indicates that a specific security is particularly sought after in the repo market, as cash lenders are willing to accept a lower rate for this specific security.