Germany's finance agency has stepped up its participation in the repo market in recent days to alleviate a shortage of debt used as collateral that sharply raised the cost of borrowing the country's ...

Germany's finance agency has stepped in to ease a bond shortage that developed in the overnight lending market, a market source said, in a sign of stress following the European Central Bank's hawkish ...

Germany's finance agency said on Wednesday it had increased the size of the outstanding bonds on its own account to lend to investors in return for cash, helping cover financing needs arising from the ...

LONDON, March 28 (IFR) - LCH has extended its repo clearing service to include German government debt, offering clients enhanced netting opportunities against existing cleared repo activities on the ...

Short-dated German bond yields rose to 11-year highs on Friday as ECB policymakers emphasized that tackling rising prices was their priority and as August inflation in the bloc was revised upwards.

That increased the scarcity of German bonds, the euro zone's safe assets used widely as collateral against repo loans, leading to a plunge in repo rates and what investors term a "collateral squeeze." ...