An Interesting Thing Happened in the Repo Market
The end of the quarter highlights big changes.
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The growing gap between where dealer-banks are willing to finance each other through the vast and shadowy "repo" market vs. what investors charge for such collateralized lending shows the negative feedback loop of heightened regulatory pressures on banks.
Or as JPMorgan analysts led by Alex Roever put it in a recent note, "sheet happens."