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    <title>The Minutes of John Williams on market functioning</title>
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      <title>Williams warns inconsistent risk management in Treasury repo could threaten market functioning if counterparti</title>
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      <description>“In the Treasury repo market, a lack of consistency and transparency in risk management practices could pose risks to market functioning if one or more counterparties were to default.” — NY Fed speeches</description>
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      <title>Williams reports Standing Repo Facility usage rose from zero to higher frequency over past two months.</title>
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      <description>“Over the past two months, SRF usage has risen from essentially zero to having greater frequency and higher volume of take-up, especially on days of temporary repo market pressures,” — NY Fed speeches</description>
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      <title>Williams notes December 2024 showed market frictions when repo traded above SRF rates without facility use.</title>
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      <description>“We saw evidence of frictions in SRF usage over a few days in December 2024, when a substantial amount of tri-party repo transactions—for which the SRF should be a close substitute—took place in the market at rates above the SRF minimum bid rate.” — NY Fed speeches</description>
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