The Repo Handbook is the ultimate, concise guide to the global repo markets and repo instruments. An outstanding mix of theory and market practice, it provides an enlightening framework that enables readers, be they practitioners, policy makers, or finance students, to obtain a firm and highly detailed grounding in repo market principles. The book features an introduction to the structure and mechanics of repo, institutional practices and real-world examples. In addition the content includes necessary supplementary material such as bank asset-liability management, trading techniques and a range of other applications of value in the global money markets. This second edition has been updated throughout to reflect current and developing market practices and the regulatory environment, and includes extensive new coverage of structured finance repo, basket repo, corporate bond repo, and funding arbitrage trades and CDS basis trades, among other areas.
– Thoroughly revised to include all current and cutting-edge strategies and products
– Features an introduction to the structure and mechanics of repo, institutional practices and real-world examples
– Includes necessary supplementary material such as bank asset-liability management, trading techniques and other applications for the global capital markets.