Office Of Financial Research Update - "The U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: Lessons From A New Survey"

The OFR released a brief today entitled, "The U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: Lessons from a New Survey," and an accompanying blog by Stacey Schreft, OFR Deputy Director for Research and Analysis. This brief provides aggregate statistics on U.S. dealers’ bilateral repurchase, or repo, agreements and economically equivalent securities lending activities. The data were collected from the U.S.-affiliated securities dealers of nine bank holding companies under a voluntary pilot program run by the OFR and the Federal Reserve System with input from the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The brief is posted on the OFR website at: http://financialresearch.gov/briefs/

The blog is posted at: http://financialresearch.gov/from-the-management-team/

The OFR home page is at: http://financialresearch.gov