Credit Repo vs. Rates Repo
Hi all. Have the opportunity to do my first rotation at Citi S&T in credit repo and had a few questions.
1. Thoughts on it as a first rotation?
2. Long-term outlook on Citi in credit / rates repo? I hear this space is consolidating to the major players and I have to imagine Citi's balance sheet makes it a contender.
3. May be a dumb question, but was speaking to someone who is in rates repo and she made the distinction between credit and rates repo, how do they differ? Is it just the collateral in the underlying repurchase agreement?
1) it’s a good spot to start. Get your feet wet to trading.
2) can’t really speak to this.
3) credit, I assume would be Corp bond as collateral, rates repo, prob treasury as collateral. Trading cash.
rates repo is a job of balancing and predicting supply / demand for high quality collateral (typically US Govt debt) and is measured in basis points....you never have to worry about the US govt declaring bankruptcy and not paying its debt. in exchange for parking US govt debt with a bank, the owner of that paper can typically borrow ~99% of the value. in some circumstances with higher price volatility (like 30yr bonds) that % might drop...but will still be very high...i'd guess above 90%
credit repo takes everything from rates repo, and adds a credit component (every week some company declares bankruptcy...and you don't want to get stuck with that collateral when it happens). Typically banks take a large haircut on credit repo..could be 25-50%...so they only lend a fraction of the face value of the debt paper...because of the risk involved. Apple and Google debt trades like US govt debt...but the debt of some small risky pharmaceutical company will not
Thanks as always, ran this question by a guy who worked in repo and now is in treasury and his response was similar regarding rates vs. credit repo.
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