Operating Policy
Statement Regarding Repurchase Agreement Small Value Exercise
May 9, 2023

The Open Market Trading Desk (the Desk) at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York undertakes small value open market transactions for the purpose of testing operational readiness to implement existing and potential policy directives from the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC directs the Desk to conduct these exercises to test its operational readiness in the Authorizations and Continuing Directives for Open Market Operations.

In connection with these authorizations, the Desk intends to conduct a small value overnight repo operation with Primary Dealers and Standing Repo Facility counterparties to test its contingency operation infrastructure. The bid submission process will be conducted from 10:30 AM ET to 10:45 AM ET on Tuesday, May 23, 2023. Operation results will be posted on the New York Fed’s website following the completion of bid evaluation.  All counterparties will be limited to one $1 million proposition per tranche during the operation. The operation details are as follows:

Repurchase Agreement Operation:

OPERATION TENOR/TYPE ELIGIBLE COUNTERPARTIES OPERATION DATE SETTLEMENT DATE MATURITY DATE SECURITY TYPE OFFERING RATE MAXIMUM VALUE OF OPERATION
Overnight Repo Primary Dealers and SRF counterparties, which include depository institutions Tue, May 23, 2023 Tue, May 23, 2023 Wed, May 24, 2023 Multi-tranche: Treasury, Agency, Agency MBS At or Above May 23, 2023 Minimum Bid Rate $100 million
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