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Finally, we show that the May 2009 implementation of a three percent fails charge for Treasury securities marginally improved the situation: the dealer-specific pass-through from fails to receive to fails to deliver Treasuries is reduces from 90% to about 83%. This decline seems not to be due to a market-wide improvement, since in the same time frame the pass-through for GSE MBS fails increases.




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Form C reports settlement fails, at principal value. Both fails to deliver or receive securities are broken down by security class (Treasuries, Agency Debt, Agency MBS, and Corporate Securities). Fails are reported on a cumulative basis within the reporting period, which ends every Wednesday at close of business: "[f]ailed transactions that are outstanding two days or more should be summed each day they are outstanding during the reporting period". Moreover, fails include the principal value of the securities that were not delivered (received) for outright sales (purchases) and the amount that was to be paid or received as part of a financing transactions. In the start leg of a repo, the dealer sends securities out and in the end leg it receives securities back; a dealer may fail to receive securities back in the end leg of the repo, in which case it does not return the cash and essentially starts borrowing at zero percent until it receives the securities back. Conversely, in the start leg of a reverse repo the dealer receives securities, and in the end leg it sends securities back; a dealer's failure to deliver securities can occur in the end leg, at which point the dealer essentially starts lending at zero percent until it delivers the securities back. In May 2009 a three percent fails charge was applied to Treasuries settlement fails, and in February 2012 to Agency Debt and Agency MBS fails. For more details on settlement fails see Fleming, Garbade (2005).


A daisy chain is started, whereby failing to receive a security translates into failing to deliver the same security to another player. If collateral re-hypothecation is widespread the chain of fails can cause a market-wide deterioration of liquidity for that security: agents who are supposed to receive such security are unable to obtain it within the agreed upon timeline.


$$$$ \beginalign\Delta FTD_i,t &= ( \alpha_0 \Delta FTR_i,t + \beta_0 \Delta Net\ Pos_i,t ) * PreBear_t + ( \alpha_1 \Delta FTR_i,t + \beta_1 \Delta Net\ Pos_i,t ) * \\ &* PostBear_t + ( \alpha_2 \Delta FTR_i,t + \beta_2 \Delta Net\ Pos_i,t ) * PostLehman_t + \mu_t + \varepsilon_i,t \endalign$$$$ where $$\Delta FTD$$ is the first difference in the dollar value of securities that a dealer fails to deliver, and $$\Delta FTR$$ is the analogous for fails to receive. $$\Delta Net\ Pos$$ is the weekly change in the dollar value of net positions. Each regression focuses on a certain class of securities that are not received and delivered, from Treasuries to corporate securities. Net positions match the asset class related to the settlement fail.


Robust standard errors in parentheses; * p


Table 1 shows that settlement fails are indeed systemic events: the dealer-specific pass-through from fails to receive to fails to deliver is around 90% to 100% across collateral types and time periods. Moreover, it seems that the average dealer does not buy securities outright (it does not expand net positions in that asset class) to cure the chain of settlement fails. In unreported results, we also control for the weekly change in securities in for the same collateral, and results are unchanged: the average dealer does not borrow securities to cure the chain of fails.


Robust standard errors in parentheses; * p


Next, Table 2 specifically singles out the big U.S. dealers and focuses on Treasuries settlement fails, which constitute the majority of overall settlement fails during our sample period. While column (1) regresses dollar-changes in fails to deliver on dollar-changes in fails to receive, column (2) uses the dollar-change in incremental fails to deliver (i.e. fails to deliver minus fails to receive) as the dependent variable. Results suggest that prior to Bear's near-default, large dealers with a bigger portfolio of Treasury bonds and notes are able to dampen the chain of fails.


Over time, the way the industry handled fails changed. Recognizing that the opportunity cost of a fail to deliver is the overnight GC repo rate, which after Lehman's collapse became essentially zero, market participants and regulators at that time made an effort to change the practice of extending the term of the repo at no explicit cost until the security was delivered. Then, in May of 2009, the Treasury Market Practices Group, a group of market participants and regulators, strongly encouraged market participants to apply a three-percent fails charge for Treasuries settlement fails. Importantly, on May 1, 2009 no penalty was introduced for Agency MBS fails: the Agency fails charge was introduced in February 2012. See Garbade et al. (2010) for more details.6


Robust standard errors in parentheses; * p


5. ConclusionIn this note we document the systemic nature of settlement fails: a dealer that fails to receive $100 worth of Treasury securities, on average fails to deliver about $90 to $100 worth of Treasuries. This finding suggests a high degree of collateral re-hypothecation, and is also consistent with dealers conducting matched-book activities. The May 2009 introduction of a fails charge for Treasuries marginally improved the situation by decreasing the dealer-specific pass-through from fails to receive to fails to deliver.


Garbade, Kenneth, Frank Keane, Lorie Logan, Amanda Stokes, and Jennifer Wolgemuth (2010). "The introduction of the TMPG fails charge for US Treasury securities." Economic Policy Review Oct (2010): 45-71.


1. See for instance the January 1992 Joint Report on the Government Securities Market by Treasury, SEC and the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, page 10: "In contrast to temporary shortages, an acute, protracted shortage can cause lasting damage to the marketplace, especially if market participants attribute the shortage to market manipulation. Dealers may be more reluctant to establish short positions in the future, which could reduce liquidity and make it marginally more difficult for the Treasury to distribute its securities without disruption". See also Fleming, Garbade (2005), and Garbade et al. (2010). The latter discusses the efforts to cure widespread fails by way of introducing a fails charge. Return to text


5. Indeed, prior to May 2009 for Treasury fails and February 2012 for Agency Debt and MBS fails, the convention was to extend the repo at no explicit penalty until the security was delivered. The only implicit cost was the non-accrual of any further return on the lent cash, usually proxied by the overnight GC repo rate. Return to text


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