The Financial Accounting Standards Board has released a new accounting standard to address some of the problems with financial reporting on repurchase agreements, such as those that contributed to the ...

tandards Update, Transfers and Servicing (Topic 860)-Effective Control for Transfers with Forward Agreements to Repurchase Assets and Accounting for Repurchase Financings, would clarify the guidance ...

Learn how Repo 105 allowed Lehman Brothers to hide debt during the financial crisis, what this accounting tactic involved, and how it prompted regulatory changes.

Repurchase Agreements (known as "Repos") are short-term agreements for the sale and repurchase of government securities, providing overnight interest to the buyer. Repos are collateralized overnight ...

What Is a Repurchase Agreement (Repo)? A repurchase agreement, commonly known as a repo, is a short-term agreement to sell securities to buy them back at a slightly higher price. The short-term loan's ...

Bond traders have pushed back against Federal Reserve officials urging them to use a key borrowing facility, complicating the central bank’s efforts to ease strains in the $12 trillion market for ...