Author: David Schwartz J.D. CPA
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Tri-Party Repo Infrastructure Reform Task Force issued a progress report on June 24, 2015. The report touts some impressive progress since the task force’s last update in 2014, including the implementation of the task force’s new settlement regime by the major tri-party clearing player, Bank of New York Mellon.
“…Earlier this spring, Bank of New York Mellon completed the final piece of its new settlement process for triparty repo, achieving a number of reform goals and serving to bring all triparty repo trades into alignment with the roadmap originally laid out by the Industry Task Force back in 2012. As a result, the share of triparty repo volume that is financed with intraday credit from a clearing bank has dropped markedly, from 100 percent as recently as 2012, to a level averaging 3 to 5 percent today (as compared with the Task Force’s original target of no more than 10 percent). Clearing banks, dealers and investors all made changes to their practices and processes that helped to achieve this goal…”