Bank of New York Mellon recently completed its leg of an industry initiative to reduce risk in the tri-party repo markets, following the disastrous role those markets played in causing the 2008 financial crisis. After successfully implementing a series of reforms laid out by the Federal Reserve-led Task Force for U.S. Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Reform,… Read More >>
BNY and CME Group Join Forces for Hedging
Custodian bank BNY Mellon and derivatives exchange company CME Group have partnered to provide a new interest rate hedging tool, the U.S. Tri-Party Repo Indices, officials say. BNY Mellon’s role in the collaboration will be to prepare and provide daily U.S. tri-party repo indices that reflect overnight interest rates on tri-party repo transactions collateralized by… Read More >>
FICC Wants to Expand Tri-Party Repo Clearing
The Fixed Income Clearing Corp. (FICC), a DTCC subsidiary, wants to provide centralized clearing for more participants in the estimated $1.6 trillion institutional tri-party repo market and will be asking the SEC and the Federal Reserve for the permission to do so. The FICC oversees the confirmation and settlement of fixed-income securities for U.S. markets…. Read More >>