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With balances at the Federal Reserve’s overnight reverse repo facility, or RRP — considered an alternative to T-bills or private market repo — potentially close to being drained, actual bank participation in the market is more critical, he said. Banks will “eventually become the end game as the marginal cash lender in repo markets,” he wrote. “Given that T-bill supply will be growing as well – and likely utilizing some or all of the remaining RRP cash – we think bank portfolios will have to be tapped for reserves at some point.”
Some of the larger Global Systemically Important Banks, or GSIBs, have cash to “spare” for lending into repo, he said.