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The ECB Has Stopped Preparations For A Collateral Management Program
This just crossing the streams:
- ECB TO STOP PREPARATIONS FOR COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM
We have no idea what this means, but rumor is that the ECB finally looked at its "collateral" and found a picture of the Athens Ministry of Finance...
And the actual statement:
15 June 2012 - Eurosystem collateral management services and systems
The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has decided to discontinue the preparations for the Collateral Central Bank Management (CCBM2) project in its current form. In the project detailing phase, a number of challenges in the field of harmonisation were identified and the Eurosystem has decided to address these issues first before proceeding further with a common technical platform. The existing Correspondent Central Banking Model (CCBM) for cross-border collateral management remains in place.
In the immediate future, the Eurosystem will concentrate on implementing the previously announced enhancements to Eurosystem collateral management services, namely the removal of the repatriation requirement from the CCBM and the support of cross-border triparty collateral management services within the CCBM. Both enhancements will be introduced in the Eurosystem collateral management framework in the course of 2014. Furthermore, the Eurosystem will prepare for the support of T2S auto-collateralisation procedures.
The Eurosystem will also continue assessing and developing its collateral management framework and practices, liaising closely with the market to understand future needs. Emphasis in this respect shall be placed on harmonisation, with the initiation, both within the Eurosystem and in collaboration with the market, of a broader reflection on the harmonisation of collateral procedures.
Here is the ECB's CCBM2 project. Now terminated. Would it be possible for Bloomberg to submit a FOIA to the ECB to inquire if Goldman provided advice to its former employee at the head of the ECB to terminate this project?
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im sure this will be somehow spun as bullish..
Some inside knowledge that SYRIZA will get destroyed in the election? Or Tsipris himself will be destroyed before the election?
slewienomics indicates the harmonizations will be worked out in tablature... in a barber shop!
Mark it to zero. So simple, even an ECB stooge can do it.
Our bailout vocabulary is about to expand exponentially! BULLISH!
which also probably means that "The ECB Has Started Preparations For A Collateral Damage Management Program"
Never cross the streams!
they just fingered out what they had?
Obviously, they've never seen an episode of Storage Wars.
Shit man, there could be a few rolex watches in those bags and priceless antiques.
you gamble on those lockers, just like central banks, you don't know what kind of shit is in there.
Can someone please translate what this new rumor headline means? My BS-ometer is a little off today...or perhaps I am now officially numb to the nonsense.
Let's wait to see how the algos respond. Then we'll know what it means.
"We need to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it."
Was it working committe to assess the possibility?
It sounds like the they have given up on the idea to create a super bad bank to manage the junk from all over europe becasue it would be unworkable and probably the main reason is all the collateral has already been pledged in one form or another. Probably pledged many times over if truth be told.
shouldnt this be the target system???
greece cutting off of the system? *g*
http://www.ecb.int/paym/groups/pdf/CCBM2.pdf?574e85698937ecf7d19b4fd0f3ce0aa8
hoarding is a sickness
Funny, that's what I told the IRS, after they requested my financial records for the last five years, and I told them I did some house cleaning.
We have met the collateral and it is us (Us is the American worker/tax payer).
El-Erian (PIMCO) is on bloomberg right now postulating the USD being the new currency for europe. This is after goolsby (D) and cantor (R) talked about the glory of the US tax code ( the perpetual jobs program for the congress criters)
Timmay!
Only because we continue to allow it. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
The collateral is a list of social security numbers.
Yuuup!
This place is crappin' cash!
Well nice, now that pesky collateral is out of the way, the numbers of bailout figures can be even more ridiculous
According to the linked documentary (in German) this is not a picture of the Ministry of Finance but of the Athens office of the Greek equivalent of the IRS. Doesn't make things better though...
Maybe they've shifted to the Collateral Damage Program.
Edit: Divided States beat me to this @ 9:21, above
Old story. Old picture. Still funny though.
I don't think the ECB wanted the citizenry of various countries to be able to easily see what they are giving up in exchange for the "free" money.
That might really fuck up the harmonization process.
That chair with the missing fabric and gnawed at by rats stryofoam must be worth something.....?
I know, "lets collateralize the rats" wait, we already did that.
That's what Brian Sack's office is going to look like on July 1st.
ECB is about to kill Trispas using a 5 tons block of fiat money
Sounds like they've adopted the MF Global model.
Don't cross the stream. That would be bad.
...and dont look at the trap
all your junk bonds are belong to you.
Lead a bank to liquidity, but you can't make it lend
In other words, you take your junk lower quality paper to the ECB and you reserve your high quality collateral (e.g. bunds) for the private repo market. The problem is that the private repo market continues to seize up because of a lack of high quality collateral and a rising sense of risk aversion over counterparty risk, i.e. you don't trust that you are going to get paid back so you demand really, really good collateral.
No matter how the ECB steps in to inject liquidity into *ahem* second-tier debt market, Kaminska wrote that the market has lost confidence and there is little the ECB can do [emphasis added]:
The ECB's experience with LTRO should be a cautionary tale for the Fed as it considers a QE3 program of purchasing MBS. You can lead a market to liquidity, but you can't make lenders lend and borrowers borrow.
Beware of unintended effects, Mr. Bernanke.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/314938-ecb-s-ltro-experience-a-cautionar...
I guess they dumped their last ton of collateral in the gold market.
is that the new age filing system that all of europe has adopted?
fuck this shit, i'm going golfing!
There is no Collateral so there is nothing to manage.
Rehypothecated vapors are just too hard to count
The fresh printed D-Marks are ready an dry before monday.
It's Nothing that matters in the slightest. Just decided not to Clear Crap from Basement on Monday (2 nd attempt,) and letting everyone know, in the spirit of (European) Harmonisation, of course. Maybe we should reply in kind with a bit of ZH Harmonisation? Like, "no shit, Bitchez?"
These fucking morons will only figure out they have to revalue the currency by creating new ones after every "dawler" on the globe becomes totally fucking worthless.
Bullish. Anything they do manage just gets more fucked up.
WTF? Sounds like crazytalk
"challenges in the field of harmonisation were identified "
Agreed. A mad sorcerer's incantation.
Or a serial killer's masturbatory chant.
Who knows?
It seems to me they are talking about switching from having several seperate software platforms, over to a single one for all of the Eurozone. Turns out it was more challenging than expected. Pretty common when switching from numerous legacy platforms to a single modernized one.
IF THE ECB want to reorder the entire banking system with free paper, they better place the bailouts on hold and start spending their money on a pan-european army to subdue the militarie's of all the countries they want to take over.
this would mean germany and france uniting their militaries into a 'euro' military---to subdue the piggs and impose martial law on them. in that scenario you're looking at a european war. it's hard to imagine it could work out to their benefit. probably a lot of shit would get blown up, america would be asked to help out---and of course america would have secret deals with the EURO-army, but in public america would make it look like all would be ok for the little piggies.
still, i don't think the U.S. germany and france working together could easily take over the rest of europe without killing a hell of a lot of people which wouldn't really work out well for the europeans, but after a short devastation lasting a year or so, maybe the banks could all be made european banks, with true subordination of the fiscal and taxing authority of the european government.
honestly, who ever really thought banks were going to unite europe without bringking europe to a massive war again?
more likely outcome-----pan-european economic collapse. why? because it's just easier and simpler.
I love that "harmonization" concept.
It sounds so nice. Like music.
Just take your soma and all will be well in Oceania . . .