Ongoing Data Collection of
Centrally Cleared Transactions in the U.S. Repurchase Agreement
Market
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
10/31/2025
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
10/31/2025
1,512
756
3,024
1,512
0
149,688
The Financial Stability Oversight
Council (“Council”) recommended an ongoing collection of repo data
in its 2016 Annual Report to Congress and maintained this
recommendation in its 2017 Annual Report. The expanded monitoring
of the repo market made possible by this proposed collection
appropriately meets Council duties and purposes because of this
market’s crucial role in providing short-term funding and
performing other functions for U.S. markets. The data would also
support the calculation of the Secured Overnight Funding Rate
(“SOFR”), which was selected by the Alternative Reference Rates
Committee (“ARRC”) as its preferred alternative rate to U.S. dollar
London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), as well as the Broad
General Collateral Rate (“BGCR”), helping fulfill another Council
recommendation on the creation of alternative reference rates. The
collection requires reporting by certain U.S. central
counterparties (“CCPs”) for repo transactions. The collection
serves two primary purposes: (1) enhancing the ability of the
Council and the Office to identify and monitor risks to financial
stability; and (2) supporting the calculation of certain reference
rates. The collection is used by the Office to improve the Council
and member agencies’ monitoring of the U.S. repo market through
access to daily transaction data. The collection is also be used by
Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY) as input into the
calculation of the SOFR and BGCR. The Council recognized in prior
annual reports that fragilities in LIBOR made the financial system
vulnerable to instability and recommended the creation of
alternative reference rates such as the SOFR and BGCR ,
demonstrating the nexus of rate production to financial stability.
The Office also uses these data for related duties and purposes as
contemplated by the Dodd-Frank Act. The Office supports the Council
and its member agencies by providing collected data.
There is an increase in burden
due to a change in agency estimates. The Office believes that one
additional covered reporter will begin reporting under the rule
within the next 12 months. Labor costs that had been erroneously
included in the "Annual Cost Burden" line have also been
removed.
$313,309
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
John Zitko 999 999-9999
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.