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A Guide to Best Practice in the European Repo Market

The ICMA have just published a guide to best practice in the European Repo Market.This important document was written by Richard Comotto, Senior Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre for the ICMA's European Repo Council. It represents the most comprehensive set of recommendations for trading and settlement, and codification of market conventions, in any repo market and is likely to provide a model to other markets. It will also be an essential aide to researchers, commentators and policy-makers.

The ICMA have just published a guide to best practice in the European Repo Market.This important document was written by Richard Comotto, Senior Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre for the ICMA's European Repo Council. It represents the most comprehensive set of recommendations for trading and settlement, and codification of market conventions, in any repo market and is likely to provide a model to other markets. It will also be an essential aide to researchers, commentators and policy-makers.

The Guide is now live on the ICMA website at this link.

Richard is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, and delivers the MSc module on short-term financial markets (FX, money markets and securities financing). You can read his full profile at this link.

Published 6 March 2014

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