Crane Data's August Money Fund Portfolio Holdings, with data as of July 31, 2022, show Repo (led by Fed repo) jumping yet again while Treasuries continued a deep 6-month slide. Money market securities held by Taxable U.S. money funds (tracked by Crane Data) increased by $116.1 billion to $4.939 trillion in July, after decreasing $2.6 billion in June, $58.4 billion in May and $55.2 billion in April. Repo remained the largest portfolio segment, while Treasuries remained in the No. 2 spot. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which surpassed the U.S. Treasury as the largest "Issuer" two months ago, is now borrowing almost $2.1 trillion from money market funds (the total broke above $2.0 trillion last month). Agencies were the third largest segment, CP remained fourth, ahead of CDs, Other/Time Deposits and VRDNs. Below, we review our latest Money Fund Portfolio Holdings statistics.
Among taxable money funds, Repurchase Agreements (repo) increased $88.7 billion (3.5%) to $2.619 trillion, or 53.0% of holdings, in July, after increasing $128.6 billion in June and $52.5 billion in May. Repo decreased $9.9 billion in April but increased $100.9 billion in March. Treasury securities fell $33.2 billion (-2.3%) to $1.421 trillion, or 28.8% of holdings, after decreasing $72.5 billion in June, $145.4 billion in May, $78.6 billion in April and $79.2 billion in March. Government Agency Debt was up $24.5 billion, or 6.0%, to $430.8 billion, or 8.7% of holdings, after decreasing $14.6 billion in June, increasing $35.1 billion in May, and decreasing $1.0 billion in April. Repo, Treasuries and Agency holdings now total $4.471 trillion, representing a massive 90.5% of all taxable holdings.
Money fund holdings of CP, CDs and Other (mainly Time Deposits) holdings all rose in July. Commercial Paper (CP) increased $15.3 billion (7.2%) to $227.9 billion, or 4.6% of holdings, after decreasing $17.3 billion in June, increasing $5.8 billion in May and decreasing $0.1 billion in April. Certificates of Deposit (CDs) increased $3.6 billion (3.0%) to $122.0 billion, or 2.5% of taxable assets, after decreasing $1.0 billion in June, but increasing $3.4 billion in May and $7.3 billion in April. Other holdings, primarily Time Deposits, increased $17.3 billion (19.0%) to $108.7 billion, or 2.2% of holdings, after decreasing $21.1 billion in June and $4.7 billion in May, but increasing $28.2 billion in April. VRDNs fell to $9.9 billion, or 0.2% of assets. (Note: This total is VRDNs for taxable funds only. We will post our Tax Exempt MMF holdings separately Wednesday around noon.)
Prime money fund assets tracked by Crane Data jumped to $902 billion, or 18.3% of taxable money funds' $4.939 trillion total. Among Prime money funds, CDs represent 13.5% (down from 14.8% a month ago), while Commercial Paper accounted for 25.4% (down from 26.6% in June). The CP totals are comprised of: Financial Company CP, which makes up 17.0% of total holdings, Asset-Backed CP, which accounts for 3.2%, and Non-Financial Company CP, which makes up 5.2%. Prime funds also hold 6.6% in US Govt Agency Debt, 6.0% in US Treasury Debt, 28.9% in US Treasury Repo, 0.3% in Other Instruments, 9.8% in Non-Negotiable Time Deposits, 5.1% in Other Repo, 2.1% in US Government Agency Repo and 0.6% in VRDNs.
Government money fund portfolios totaled $2.781 trillion (56.3% of all MMF assets), up from $2.779 trillion in June, while Treasury money fund assets totaled another $1.257 trillion (25.5%), up from $1.244 trillion the prior month. Government money fund portfolios were made up of 13.4% US Govt Agency Debt, 8.4% US Government Agency Repo, 20.8% US Treasury Debt, 57.1% in US Treasury Repo, 0.0% in Other Instruments. Treasury money funds were comprised of 62.7% US Treasury Debt and 37.0% in US Treasury Repo. Government and Treasury funds combined now total $4.038 trillion, or 81.8% of all taxable money fund assets.
European-affiliated holdings (including repo) increased by $52.0 billion in July to $397.8 billion; their share of holdings rose to 8.1% from last month's 7.2%. Eurozone-affiliated holdings increased to $278.9 billion from last month's $238.5 billion; they account for 5.7% of overall taxable money fund holdings. Asia & Pacific related holdings jumped higher to $176.6 billion (3.6% of the total) from last month's $170.8 billion. Americas related holdings rose to $4.360 trillion from last month's $4.301 trillion, and now represent 88.3% of holdings.
The overall taxable fund Repo totals were made up of: US Treasury Repurchase Agreements (up $66.2 billion, or 2.9%, to $2.312 trillion, or 46.8% of assets); US Government Agency Repurchase Agreements (up $21.3 billion, or 9.2%, to $252.9 billion, or 5.1% of total holdings), and Other Repurchase Agreements (up $1.2 billion, or 2.2%, from last month to $54.3 billion, or 1.1% of holdings). The Commercial Paper totals were comprised of Financial Company Commercial Paper (up $5.0 billion to $152.9 billion, or 3.1% of assets), Asset Backed Commercial Paper (up $2.0 billion to $28.5 billion, or 0.6%), and Non-Financial Company Commercial Paper (up $8.3 billion to $46.6 billion, or 0.9%).
The 20 largest Issuers to taxable money market funds as of July 31, 2022, include: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ($2.088T, 42.3%), the US Treasury ($1.421 trillion, or 28.8%), Federal Home Loan Bank ($310.6B, 6.3%), Federal Farm Credit Bank ($104.9B, 2.1%), BNP Paribas ($80.6B, 1.6%), RBC ($70.3B, 1.4%), Fixed Income Clearing Corp ($45.9B, 0.9%), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Co ($45.0B, 0.9%), JP Morgan ($39.4B, 0.8%), Citi ($35.8B, 0.7%), Credit Agricole ($34.3B, 0.7%), Bank of America ($34.0B, 0.7%), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ($32.6B, 0.7%), Barclays ($31.3B, 0.6%), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($26.8B, 0.5%), Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd ($26.1B, 0.5%), Bank of Montreal ($24.0B, 0.5%), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ($21.4B, 0.4%), Goldman Sachs ($19.0B, 0.4%) and ING Bank ($17.0B, 0.3%).
In the repo space, the 10 largest Repo counterparties (dealers) with the amount of repo outstanding and market share (among the money funds we track) include: ` Federal Reserve Bank of New York ($2.088T, 79.7%), BNP Paribas ($74.3B, 2.8%), RBC ($50.7B, 1.9%), Fixed Income Clearing Corp ($45.9B, 1.8%), JP Morgan ($32.4B, 1.2%), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp ($31.5B, 1.2%), Bank of America ($29.4B, 1.1%), Citi ($27.0B, 1.0%), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ($19.6B, 0.7%) and Barclays PLC ($17.9B, 0.7%) <b:>`_. The largest users of the $2.088 trillion in Fed RRP include: Vanguard Federal Money Mkt Fund ($134.1B), Goldman Sachs FS Govt ($130.4B), Fidelity Govt Money Market ($127.3B), Fidelity Govt Cash Reserves ($115.4B), JPMorgan US Govt MM ($113.3B), Morgan Stanley Inst Liq Govt ($92.8B), Federated Hermes Govt ObI ($79.0B), BlackRock Lq FedFund ($74.0B), Dreyfus Govt Cash Mgmt ($70.0B) and State Street Inst US Govt ($66.5B).
The 10 largest issuers of "credit" -- CDs, CP and Other securities (including Time Deposits and Notes) combined -- include: Credit Agricole ($20.4B, 5.3%), RBC ($19.6B, 5.1%), Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd ($18.7B, 4.8%), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($15.5B, 4.0%), Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB ($15.0B, 3.9%), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp ($13.5B, 3.5%), Barclays PLC ($13.4B, 3.5%), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ($13.0B, 3.4%), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ($12.4B, 3.2%) and Bank of Montreal ($12.3B, 3.2%).
The 10 largest CD issuers include: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp ($11.4B, 9.3%), Credit Agricole ($9.7B, 8.0%), Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ($9.1B, 7.5%), Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc ($8.9B, 7.3%), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($7.3B, 6.0%), Bank of Nova Scotia ($6.2B, 5.1%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank ($5.7B, 4.7%), Citi ($5.1B, 4.2%), Svenska Handelsbanken ($4.7B, 3.9%) and Nordea Bank ($4.3B, 3.6%).
The 10 largest CP issuers (we include affiliated ABCP programs) include: RBC ($13.5B, 7.3%), Bank of Montreal ($8.0B, 4.3%), Toronto-Dominion Bank ($7.6B, 4.1%), JP Morgan ($7.0B, 3.8%), BNP Paribas ($5.2B, 2.8%), National Australia Bank Ltd ($5.2B, 2.8%), Barclays PLC ($5.2B, 2.8%), Svenska Handelsbanken ($4.9B, 2.7%), Macquarie Bank Limited ($4.9B, 2.6%) and Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd ($4.9B, 2.6%).
The largest increases among Issuers include: Federal Reserve Bank of New York (up $77.2B to $2.088T), Federal Home Loan Bank (up $29.8B to $310.6B), Credit Agricole (up $15.3B to $34.3B), RBC (up $5.8B to $70.3B), Barclays PLC (up $5.6B to $31.3B), BNP Paribas (up $5.0B to $80.6B), Natixis (up $4.5B to $13.5B), Svenska Handelsbanken (up $4.2B to $12.2B), Societe Generale (up $4.0B to $16.8B) and Rabobank (up $3.8B to $7.5B).
The largest decreases among Issuers of money market securities (including Repo) in July were shown by: the US Treasury (down $33.2B to $1.421T), Fixed Income Clearing Corp (down $21.9B to $45.9B), Goldman Sachs (down $10.0B to $19.0B), Landesbank Baden-Wurttemberg (down $2.8B to $5.0B), Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp (down $2.0B to $10.6B), National Australia Bank Ltd (down $1.7B to $6.9B), Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd (down $1.5B to $26.1B), Nordea Bank (down $1.3B to $5.1B), Lloyds Banking Group (down $1.3B to $5.1B) and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (down $1.2B to $45.0B).
The United States remained the largest segment of country-affiliations; it represents 84.7% of holdings, or $4.186 trillion. Canada (3.5%, $174.3B) was in second place, while France (3.3%, $161.1B) was No. 3. Japan (3.1%, $153.4B) occupied fourth place. The United Kingdom (1.2%, $57.3B) remained in fifth place. Netherlands (0.9%, $43.1B) was in sixth place, followed by Sweden (0.8%, $40.8B) Australia (0.6%, $30.8B), ` Germany <b:>`_ (0.6%, $30.2B) and Switzerland (0.3%, $13.8B). (Note: Crane Data attributes Treasury and Government repo to the dealer's parent country of origin, though money funds themselves "look-through" and consider these U.S. government securities. All money market securities must be U.S. dollar-denominated.)
As of July 31, 2022, Taxable money funds held 64.9% (up from 63.8%) of their assets in securities maturing Overnight, and another 7.0% maturing in 2-7 days (up from 6.9%). Thus, 71.9% in total matures in 1-7 days. Another 6.7% matures in 8-30 days, while 7.4% matures in 31-60 days. Note that over three-quarters, or 86.1% of securities, mature in 60 days or less, the dividing line for use of amortized cost accounting under SEC regulations. The next bucket, 61-90 days, holds 4.7% of taxable securities, while 7.4% matures in 91-180 days, and just 1.9% matures beyond 181 days. (Visit our Content center to download, or contact us to request our latest Portfolio Holdings reports.)
