Where a conventional bank licensee, acting as agent, arranges a repo-style transaction (i.e. repurchase/reverse repurchase and securities lending/borrowing transactions) between a customer and a third party and provides a guarantee to the customer that the third party will perform on its obligations, then the risk to the conventional bank licensee is the same as if the conventional bank licensee had entered into the transaction as a principal. In such circumstances, a conventional bank licensee will be required to calculate capital requirements as if it were itself the principal.
January 2015