The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a new accounting standard to address some of the problems with financial reporting on repurchase agreements, such as those that contributed to the ...

tandards Update, Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860)-Effective Control for Transfers with Forward Agreements to Repurchase Assets and Accounting for Repurchase Financings, would clarify the guidance ...

Repurchase Agreements (known as "Repos") are short-term agreements for the sale and repurchase of government securities, providing overnight interest to the buyer. Repos are collateralized overnight ...

What Is a Repurchase Agreement (Repo)? A repurchase agreement, commonly known as a repo, is a short-term agreement to sell securities to buy them back at a slightly higher price. The short-term loan's ...

Bond traders have pushed back against Federal Reserve officials urging them to use a key borrowing facility, complicating the central bank’s efforts to ease strains in the $12 trillion market for ...