What Explains the June Spike in Treasury Settlement Fails?

Michael Fleming, Frank M. Keane, Antoine Martin and Michael McMorrow

No 20140919a, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: In June of this year?as we noted in the preceding post?settlement fails in U.S. Treasury securities spiked to their highest level since the implementation of the fails charge in May 2009. Our first post reviewed what fails are, why they arise, and how they can be measured. In this post, we dig into the fails data to identify possible explanations for the high level of fails in June. We observe that sequential fails of several benchmark securities accounted for the lion?s share of fails in June, but that fails in seasoned securities?which have been trending upward for some time?were also elevated.

Keywords: Treasury securities; liquidity; DTCC; Settlement Fails (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G1 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-09-19
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