We're active in the last months of 2018 and growing in 2019, with a public webinar on SFTR, new and recurring events in Europe, our Rates & Repo conference is November 5 in New York, and the Finadium Investors in Securities Lending New York conference returns May 2-3 2019. Here's what's planned.
The latest ICMA European repo market survey showed a sharp drop in the percentage of business going to tri-party, just 6% down from 12% in December 2016. There are several reasons for the decline. We compare tri-party usage for repo against other European products and to tri-party usage in the US.
Hundreds of trillions of notional dollars of derivatives are indexed from LIBOR but barely anything yet on SOFR. SOFR is growing fast however and will be unavoidable. As with many concerns in financial markets, the big one here is who will make or lose money in the transition?
Just when you thought things were settling down and European regulation was becoming predictable, a string of news suggests the opposite. The end of 2018 clear through into 2019 could be a bumpy ride.
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