Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60785 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Staff Report No. 555
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper, originally released in August 1989 as part of a Federal Reserve Bank of New York series on the U.S. securities markets, examines loans of Treasury and agency securities in the domestic market. It highlights some important institutional characteristics of securities loan transactions, in particular the common use of agents to arrange the terms of the loans. While we note that this characteristic sets securities lending apart from most repurchase agreement (repo) transactions, which occur bilaterally between a borrower and a lender, we observe that repo and securities loan transactions ultimately serve the same important economic purpose - to cover short positions used for hedging or arbitrage in related cash markets. The data used here, though largely informal, were provided by knowledgeable market participants.
Subjects: 
securities lending
repo
JEL: 
G10
G19
G20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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