The per cent of repo trades in the overnight to 3 day tenor bucket constitute around 95% of total trades (Table 2). Measures are being taken to encourage market participants to enter into long term repo contracts. As a first step, Reserve Bank has introduced term repos of 7 and 14-days in October 2013.
What are the broad structural forces shaping the financial system in the years ahead. Do we want those structural forces to play out? Are they well founded or are they the result of some distortion in the system? So in a nutshell: think about the system, think about the broad structural forces. 2  BIS central bankers’ speeches