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The Dealer-to-Client Repo Market: A Buoy on a Swaying Sea

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  • Greg Adams
  • Evan Dudley
  • Jean-Sébastien Fontaine
  • Sofia Tchamova
  • Andreas Uthemann

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In 2024, the overnight funding market experienced sustained pressure and the benchmark Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average (CORRA) rose to 7 basis points above the Bank of Canada’s target overnight rate. Settlement balances were declining, but hedge fund borrowing also grew by over $30 billion, increasing the client share of total repo volumes. With limited balance sheets and substantial market power, dealers raised clients’ rates, which increasingly influenced CORRA. Overall, this episode highlights the effect that dealers’ balance sheet constraints and bargaining power have on where CORRA settles but downplays the role of the settlement balances channel in the dealer-to-client market.

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  • Greg Adams & Evan Dudley & Jean-Sébastien Fontaine & Sofia Tchamova & Andreas Uthemann, 2025. "The Dealer-to-Client Repo Market: A Buoy on a Swaying Sea," Discussion Papers 2025-14, Bank of Canada.
    • Handle: RePEc:bca:bocadp:25-14
    DOI: 10.34989/sdp-2025-14
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    • D4 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design
    • D53 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Financial Markets
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates

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