Interest rates

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there are a lot of important spreads
what are they
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SOFR to?
SOFR to Eurodollar, to Fed Funds, cross-currency swaps, commercial paper, term rates
Fed Funds
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unsecured, overnight market
SOFR
they are also trailing
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repo market, also uninsured but it is secured, overnight
LIBOR
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offshore, unsecured, termed (1m, 3m...)
Fed Funds
unsure and unsecured, the official policy rate of the Fed
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banks are lending to each other with no collateral within the US
overnight, interbank deposit system, it used to be a big market because of low reserves, with scarce reserves just because of payments banks needed to move funds around, they dont need to redistribute them as much intraday to meet their payment obligation
Fed Funds 2
what is it used for today?
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it's still the official policy target
some banks still need to keep their cash in this interbank unsecured market for regulatory reasons
Reserves today vs pre GFC
the fed did not pay interest on reserves pre-GFC, the reserves were not remunerated by the Fed
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30-50x more reserves now
reserves had to be pretty scarce for rates to remain at a target equilibrium, natural rate that they earned was 0, that 3% FFR was a premium due to the scarcity of the reserves in the market
Reserves get remunerated
now the Fed pays 4.35% on reserves
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by the Fed
even though reserves are much more plentiful, the market rate of reserves is much closer to that value, because the fed is paying interest on them
federal home loan banks which
are government sponsored
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do not earn interest on reserves
so they cant earn IOER, they keep their cash as reserve in the Fed funds market, offer however much liquidity they have or they're willing to part with overnight, banks quote them some level that is lower than ioer that's that's a that's a good Arbitrage
US interest rate complex
Fed funds upper limit: 4.50%, Fed funds lower limit: 4.25%
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it's a tiered stack
Overnight reverse repo rate: 4.30%, Secured Overnight Financing Rate: 4.32%, Effective FFR: 4.33%, interest on reserve balances: 4.40%
Repo is when
banks want to
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borrow money from the fed
and post their assets as collateral
if Repo goes above fed funds range
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you have a liquidity crisis like in sep 2019
fed funds and sofr
the reported numbers
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are distributions
are medians, around that there are dispersions
the are some banks that borrow in the fed funds market
it creates
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for real funding needs
this bimodal behavior
institutions within the repo market that have
eg. bny melon as a tri-party agent and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation as a clearinghouse
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a huge market share
melon provides custody and collateral monitoring for repo participants, FICC provides netting of transactions and central clearing, all the repos that go through those venues are more or less observable
repo market is very decentralized
a hedge fund goes to a dealer and they say they want to do an OTC dealer trade
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the fed does not include the rate in sofr
they talk through a bloomberg chat and they do the trade on the dealers books
sofr as a repo rate includes some segments of the repo market
mainly processed by the 2 main central counterparties
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but it is not the entirety
it does not include any transactions with the federal reserve, so reverse repos coming into the fed or if the fed is doing repo operations that does not show in the reference rates, but they influence the rest of the market
buckets for the repo market
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tri-party, bilateral and sponsored
Fixed Income Clearing Corporation
it nets trades, there are many dealers that are members
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a clearinghouse
it reduces the settlement volume, the members can cancel out trades that offset each other
sponsored repo
Hedge Funds that are not dealers
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is a special program offered by FICC
can through the dealer execute netted trades as if they were members of FICC, the hedge fund's broker is effectively a member
the fed does what repos
market and set up an account with BNY mellon
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tri-party
and they lend cash repo or drain cash from the reverse repo facility they do it through those accounts, they are not included in the SOFR or reference rates
SOFR secured by
general vs specific collateral
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eg. general collateral
if sb wants a repo to source a treasury, they usually want a specific treasury, on the runs or the cheapest to deliver issues, the most recently issued or the ones referenced by the futures contract
there far fewer 9 year Treasuries
if you buy 10y Treasury future
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than 10 year Treasuries
they are short 10y Treasury future, they have to hedge that, there is a small number of securities that are deliverable into those futures, theres usually the cheapest and the most favored by the contract to be delivered
the way this preference for on the run Treasuries is expressed is
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that people want to borrow these securities
the security that is in high demand in the repo market
just because
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the rate to borrow cash against that security might be lower eg. 2%
many people want to obtain it so they will sacrifice most of the yield on their cash in order just to get that specific security to use for hedging or whatever, it's called a special, that's the distinction between general and specific collateral repo
with specific collateral repo
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you see the divergence of certain repo rates
agency mortgage backed are
in the groupings of securities
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a seperate bucket
general collateral baskets develop, note, bond, bill, floating rate note, strips are a seperate bucket, all of them are general
in 2008 private MBS, non-agency MBS, CDOs, equity tranches, leveraged loans
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solvent banks were telling them: collateral is worth 70c, 60c on the dollar
repo against lower quality collateral
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does exist, it's just not very big
sovereign debt was a general collateral basket in Europe
repo backed by german bunds
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before the sovereign debt crisis
is not equivalent by repo backed by othe euro sovereign debt
relative value trading
borrow the expensive one, sell it
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observing, following divergences between securities on the yield curve
buy the cheap one, bet on converging
hedging derivatives
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long futures contract, borrow the underlying note in repo and u short it
borrowing in repo
customer wants this specific bond from a dealer
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to sell them to customers
they dont have it in the inventory
dealer sourced bond in repo
to manage the position they need to buy it from somebody else, close out their repo position with a different bond of the same issue
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sold it to a customer
the other option is to keep rolling it, find somebody else in the repo market who wants to lend it them again, the third option is to borrow it from the fed, which has a lot of treasuries, and lends those treasuries out, through the soma facility
reverse repo facility
variable collateral, fixed rate, but
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is general collateral
soma is specific collateral, but the rate moves up and down, repo rate for the on the run 2 year note
soma
depending on how many bids are submitted, how much of the security of the fed has
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is not a fixed rate facility, it's an auction
how many dealers are bidding, and how much they need this security
april and september
dealers didnt have enough of them
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a lot of demand to short these bonds
volatile, relative value opportunities, they were bidding at a very high rate to obtain these, they can't bid below 5bps
3M SOFR is
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rolled forward
money market rates and
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the derivatives market that is based on them
sofr vs effective fed funds rate
cash is plentiful, collateral is scarce, ffr is higher is less affected
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cash vs collateral is the decider
low sofr means a glut of cash
Overnight index swap
fra ois
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swap based off overnight rate sofr or effr
based on libor, sofr spread vs libor, a measure of credit risk and liquidity in the banking system
ted spread
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spread between eurodollar rate or libor and treasuries
negative swap spread
treasuries should be lower, but
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spread between swaps and treasuries
they should be about the same, swaps curve is the forward expectation of overnight rates
term treasuries are
term premium
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trading at this paradoxical discount to swaps
is not a directly observable quantity, you have to estimate it from regressions, what the expected rate of rolling something is vs buying the term rate
december 2023 call spread
its not cheap
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that target 2% of the ffr
you are paying 10% of the max payout, the market does not think this is not an impossible event

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