Under a repurchase agreement, the seller retains the securities sold under a repurchase agreement as an asset on its balance sheet and records the amount of its debt to the buyer as a liability on its balance sheet; these securities and this debt are recorded under a specific heading in the seller’s accounts. In addition, the amount of the financial securities sold under a repurchase agreement, broken down according to the nature of the assets concerned, must appear in the documents appended to the annual accounts.