Fidelity estimates that the RWA cost for facing certain counterparties could be 36 bps under the Basel III Endgame.
The Basel III Endgame will sharply curtail banks’ ability to use internal models to determine counterparty risk weights, and instead apply standard risk weights. For secured funding transactions, this means that risk weights for low-risk counterparties such as money market funds could increase by as much as 10x. Add in the price volatility of haircuts and RWAs will increase substantially.
Sponsored clearing models will not reduce the impact of higher counterparty risk weights as sponsoring members are required to guarantee the performance of sponsored members. The guarantees generate the same counterparty exposures as equivalent principal transactions.
Sunthay’s Guaranteed Repo structure alleviates the impact of the Basel III Endgame substantially as guarantors do not have exposure to end providers, who are the counterparties that will generate the greatest increases in RWAs. Guaranteed Repo is also excluded from the SLR, LCR and NSFR, as well as from most elements of the GSIB Surcharge. As a result, it is the most efficient secured financing solution available.
Please see Shiv Rao and SUNTHAY for more information on Guaranteed Repo.
Securities lending market dynamics are changing, driven by ongoing efforts at financial institutions to improve balance sheet efficiencies and Basel III Endgames around the world that create further capital and operational requirements. These factors, along with regulatory mandates like the move to T+1 settlement and securities lending reporting under SEC Rule 10c-1, mean that beneficial owners should be prepared to review their agent lender relationships, consider their lending parameters and investigate new routes to market. Fidelity Investments
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