Thursday, February 4, 2016

OFR Publishes Repo Survey Results. Calls for Better Data Standards.

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA

The Office of Financial Research released results of its survey of the bilateral repo markets.  The report, "The U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: Lessons from a New Survey,” provides aggregate statistics on U.S. dealers’ bilateral repo agreements and economically equivalent securities lending activities. The data for three "snapshot" dates in 1Q2015 were collected from the U.S.-affiliated securities dealers of nine bank holding companies as part of a voluntary pilot program run by the OFR and the Fed with input from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Thursday, April 18, 2013

Can the Right Statistics Help Us Avoid the Next Titanic Disaster?

Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
The latest financial crisis was marked by a spectacular lack of understanding about the astounding levels of risk that had been allowed to build up throughout the system. Regulators and risk managers realized after the fact that the data they needed to understand the scale, let alone the nuances, of what went wrong just had not been collected, or was obscured or insufficient. With the benefit of hindsight, and as we move into recovery, it is time to think about what role could new statistics play in heading off the next big market crisis. Claudio Borio of the Bank for International Settlements has put together an interesting treatise exploring the priorities we should be setting for new statistics and data sets that may very well help us avoid the next iceberg.
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