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The Repo Handbook by Moorad Choudhry

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      • Product code: 14492
      • ISBN: 0750651628, ISBN13: 9780750651622, 512 pages, hardback
        Published by Butterworth-Heinemann in 2002 , 1st edition
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      Description of The Repo Handbook

      The REPO Handbook provides:
      • A complete guide to repo, including introductions to money markets and bonds
      • Contains the author's personal anecdotes from trading: PRICELESS information
      • Cover every aspect of repo, for all participants including legal, tax, accounting and back office. This book is the ultimate guide for bankers, repo traders and salespersons, money market participants, corporate treasurers, debt finance professionals and is organized into three parts: Part I covers the repo instrument, and examines repo mechanics and use of repo. There is also a look at selected country repo markets around the world. Part II of the book considers the institutional treatment of repo, with chapters on risk, netting, accounting, and legal issues. There is also a chapter on equity repo. Part III looks at basis trading and the implied repo rate. This includes results of original research on the gilt bond basis, presented in accessible style.


      Reviews

      'The Author writes very lucidly on fixed income issues and combines mathematics and text very effectively. I found the chapters interesting and easy to read.'
      Dr Stephen Satchell, University of Cambridge

      Contents of The Repo Handbook

    • Market background
    • Financial arithmetic
    • Introduction to REPO
    • Uses and economic functions
    • The mechanics of REPO
    • Trading REPO
    • REPO dealing risks
    • Legal considerations
    • PSA/ISMA agreement
    • Accounting, tax and capital issues
    • Settlement and clearing
    • REPO netting
    • Selected country market structures
    • Trading and hedging strategies
    • Electronic REPO trading
    • The implied REPO rate and basis trading
    • The UK gilt basis
    • REPO and the yield curve
    • REPO market structures
    • Equity REPO
    • Central banks and overseas markets
    • Emerging markets REPO.


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