May 6, 2021 by Scott Hood Under a term repurchase agreement (term repo), a bank will agree to buy securities from a dealer and then resell them back to the dealer a short time later at a pre-specified price. The difference between the re-purchase and sale prices represents the implicit interest paid for the agreement. The repurchase agreement, or repo, market is an obscure but important part of the financial system that has drawn increasing attention lately. On average, $2 trillion to $4 trillion in repurchase agreements collateralized short-term loans are traded each day. But how does the ...