Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Sep 30, 2026
Gara Afonso and coauthors explain repos in Liberty Street Economics
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On September 30, 2026, Gara Afonso, Jun-Davinci Choi, Gonzalo Cisternas, and Will Riordan describe how the Federal Reserve uses repos and to manage liquidity and influence short-term interest rates. A repo temporarily adds reserves: the central bank buys securities and pays with reserves, then receives those reserves back when the transaction matures. A reverse repo temporarily drains reserves by selling securities, with the flows reversed at maturity. The authors’ central point is that these operations have changed with policy aims and financial conditions. They trace repos from an alternative to collateralized loans during World War I to a tool for supplying reserves and influencing money-market rates. They also describe how the Fed’s counterparties, accepted collateral, and settlement arrangements changed over time. The post presents current repo and reverse repo operations as tools for implementing monetary policy and managing financial-system liquidity. It explains how their rates are intended to place a ceiling and floor, respectively, on overnight market rates; the post does not assess how reliably they achieve those effects.
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Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published September 30, 2026. The post describes how the Fed’s operations are intended to affect short-term rates but does not evaluate how closely market rates follow the stated boundaries. The evidence does not establish how well the operations work under different conditions.
Open question
How closely do the stated rate boundaries guide actual overnight market rates under different market conditions?
Source-stated
The authors say repos and reverse repos help the Federal Reserve implement monetary policy and manage liquidity.
Today, repos and reverse repos serve as essential tools for implementing monetary policy and managing liquidity in the financial system.
Source-stated
The authors explain that a repo adds reserves while the transaction is outstanding, and that the central bank receives them back at maturity.
Repos only provide liquidity while the transactions are outstanding. At the maturity date, the central bank returns the securities and receives the reserves back
Source-stated
The authors say reverse repos drain liquidity, with the flows reversed at maturity.
The flows are reversed at the maturity date, restoring liquidity.
Source-stated
The authors say the Fed’s standing repo rate provides a ceiling on overnight rates by offering eligible counterparties funding.
The SRP rate—set by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)—provides a ceiling on overnight rates
Source-stated
The authors say the ON RRP rate places a floor under overnight market rates by offering eligible counterparties an overnight investment opportunity.
The ON RRP rate places a floor under overnight market rates by offering eligible counterparties an overnight investment opportunity
Source-stated
The authors trace the Fed’s first authorization of repos to November 1917, when repos were an alternative to collateralized loans called advances.
The origins of the Fed using repos go back to November 1917, when the Fed first authorized the use of repos as an alternative to collateralized loans, known as advances.
Source-stated
The authors say repo operations evolved as economic conditions and policy objectives changed.
Fed repo operations have evolved significantly since their inception in 1917, adapting to changing economic conditions and policy objectives.
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The post is dated September 30, 2026.
September 30, 2026 The Role of Repos in Monetary Policy Implementation
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Reverse repurchase agreement
The other side of a repo: securities are sold under an agreement to buy them back later. It works like borrowing backed by securities; when the Fed does it, it temporarily drains bank reserves.
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Version 1 · 2026-11-05T11:43:25.313Z
Gara Afonso and coauthors explain repos in Liberty Street Economics
On September 30, 2026, Gara Afonso, Jun-Davinci Choi, Gonzalo Cisternas, and Will Riordan describe how the Federal Reserve uses repos and to manage liquidity and influence short-term interest rates. A repo temporarily adds reserves: the central bank buys securities and pays with reserves, then receives those reserves back when the transaction matures. A reverse repo temporarily drains reserves by selling securities, with the flows reversed at maturity. The authors’ central point is that these operations have changed with policy aims and financial conditions. They trace repos from an alternative to collateralized loans during World War I to a tool for supplying reserves and influencing money-market rates. They also describe how the Fed’s counterparties, accepted collateral, and settlement arrangements changed over time. The post presents current repo and reverse repo operations as tools for implementing monetary policy and managing financial-system liquidity. It explains how their rates are intended to place a ceiling and floor, respectively, on overnight market rates; the post does not assess how reliably they achieve those effects.
Original source
Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Article
Source details
Original source date: Sep 30, 2026 (2026-09-30T11:00:00.000Z).
Date basis: Date supplied by the publisher’s feed.
Added to Escape Meridian: 2026-11-05T11:43:25.313Z. First observed: 2026-10-30T18:44:06.142Z. Retrieved: 2026-10-30T18:46:00.480Z.
Limits
Text as retrieved on October 30, 2026; originally published September 30, 2026. The post describes how the Fed’s operations are intended to affect short-term rates but does not evaluate how closely market rates follow the stated boundaries. The evidence does not establish how well the operations work under different conditions.
Open question
How closely do the stated rate boundaries guide actual overnight market rates under different market conditions?
Source-stated
The authors say repos and reverse repos help the Federal Reserve implement monetary policy and manage liquidity.
Today, repos and reverse repos serve as essential tools for implementing monetary policy and managing liquidity in the financial system.
Source-stated
The authors explain that a repo adds reserves while the transaction is outstanding, and that the central bank receives them back at maturity.
Repos only provide liquidity while the transactions are outstanding. At the maturity date, the central bank returns the securities and receives the reserves back
Source-stated
The authors say reverse repos drain liquidity, with the flows reversed at maturity.
The flows are reversed at the maturity date, restoring liquidity.
Source-stated
The authors say the Fed’s standing repo rate provides a ceiling on overnight rates by offering eligible counterparties funding.
The SRP rate—set by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC)—provides a ceiling on overnight rates
Source-stated
The authors say the ON RRP rate places a floor under overnight market rates by offering eligible counterparties an overnight investment opportunity.
The ON RRP rate places a floor under overnight market rates by offering eligible counterparties an overnight investment opportunity
Source-stated
The authors trace the Fed’s first authorization of repos to November 1917, when repos were an alternative to collateralized loans called advances.
The origins of the Fed using repos go back to November 1917, when the Fed first authorized the use of repos as an alternative to collateralized loans, known as advances.
Source-stated
The authors say repo operations evolved as economic conditions and policy objectives changed.
Fed repo operations have evolved significantly since their inception in 1917, adapting to changing economic conditions and policy objectives.
Source-stated
The post is dated September 30, 2026.
September 30, 2026 The Role of Repos in Monetary Policy Implementation
Source and contributor context
Federal Reserve Bank of New York · Publisher
The publisher is identified here. No individual author has been inferred.
Source media
Media retrieval status: unchecked.
Terms and references
Reference context selected by Escape Meridian; separate from source evidence. Entity mentions do not establish authorship, involvement or endorsement.
Reverse repurchase agreement
The other side of a repo: securities are sold under an agreement to buy them back later. It works like borrowing backed by securities; when the Fed does it, it temporarily drains bank reserves.
Editorial provenance
Version 1. Publication ID: e46e847f-ffd6-37c5-5283-c4b9e709b883.
Prepared by openai/gpt-6-luna; grounding review by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5.
Source check: passed by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 on 2026-11-05T11:39:08.298Z. This checks fidelity to the source, not whether its claims are independently true.
Editorial selection: accept; reasons: bridge_admitted_by_model.
Observation: f75c40e6e7db3f8bf4b0af964ca61ba224b19caccb876955e0186a1138fb0e71. Source text hash: 49ea1a8f99b47949206991b109196f812bc1ec6471ee1f5ed154dbe65f1a89cc.
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Publication: e46e847f-ffd6-37c5-5283-c4b9e709b883
attribution — pass: The reading correctly names all four authors and attributes the post to Liberty Street Economics, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York blog. Its claims are framed as the authors' statements.
Gara Afonso, Jun-Davinci Choi, Gonzalo Cisternas, and Will Riordan
summary — pass: The summary faithfully conveys the post's mechanics and its historical arc: repos inject reserves, reverse repos drain them, and the SRP and ON RRP rates set a ceiling and floor. It also covers the evolution from a 1917 alternative to advances through changes in counterparties, collateral and tri-party settlement. Repo is explained in plain language in the text, and reverse repo is defined beside the reading. The question follows from the post's ceiling-and-floor description without presuming an answer.
Fed repo operations have evolved significantly since their inception in 1917, adapting to changing economic conditions and policy objectives.
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September 30, 2026 The Role of Repos in Monetary Policy Implementation
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The ON RRP rate places a floor under overnight market rates by offering eligible counterparties an overnight investment opportunity
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The other side of a repo: securities are sold under an agreement to buy them back later. It works like borrowing backed by securities; when the Fed does it, it temporarily drains bank reserves.
Definition referenceThe other side of a repo: securities are sold under an agreement to buy them back later. It works like borrowing backed by securities; when the Fed does it, it temporarily drains bank reserves.
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