The U.S. Bilateral Repo Market: Lessons from a New Survey

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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. (Brief no. 16-01)