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Credit terms offered to almost all counterparties in both securities financing and OTC derivatives transactions tightened between March and May 2018. This was the largest tightening in a year and in contrast to the easing expected by respondents in the previous survey (March 2018).
Survey participants now also expect conditions to tighten in the coming months. Tighter price conditions were related to the deterioration of liquidity conditions and the functioning of the general collateral market. Some qualitative answers also drew a link to the increased spreads of sovereign debt in some jurisdictions. Additional, albeit less important, contributing factors included the “adoption of new market conventions” and “competition from other institutions”.
For non-centrally cleared OTC derivatives, almost 10% of survey respondents reported some tightening of liquidity and general trading conditions. The qualitative answers suggest that further tightening due to the phasing-in of OTC margining might be expected in the future.