A new legal master agreement for triparty repo transactions has been developed by Clearstream to enable market participants to sign just one contract for multiple counterparties and speed up counterparty “marriage broking”. Clearstream Repurchase Conditions (CRC), a master agreement governed by Luxembourg law, effectively enables customers to be able to trade with their chosen counterparties within just a few days. The CRC contains most of the core provisions of current industry standardised repo agreements. It will offer repo participants the possibility of effectively testing their commercial appetite with regard to numbers of trades and volumes with a counterparty before choosing to carry out the extra effort necessary to enter into other bilateral repurchase agreements...
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