A regulatory rule for the collection of data for non-centrally cleared bilateral U.S. repurchase agreements (repos) has a compliance date — December 2 — that is less than three months away. In May, the Office of Financial Research (OFR) without much fanfare adopted a final rule to “improve transparency within the U.S. repurchase agreement (repo)… Read More >>
GAO Wants to Break Down Regulatory Silos
The budget watchdog for the federal government, the General Accounting Office (GAO) wants the Congress and the President to clarify the morass of federal regulators overseeing U.S. financial markets, particularly the interactions between the Federal Reserve and the Office of Financial Research (OFR). A report on regulators was part of a larger GAO report on… Read More >>
