As if lenders didn’t have enough to deal with these days with the deluge of borrower requests for forbearance and payment relief, they continue to face a ticking clock on the transition away from ...
As if they didn’t have enough to deal with, banks are faced with a succession of serious challenges over the next two years as they face up to the reality of the end of Libor. Firstly, they must ...
LIBOR set interest rates for trillions of dollars in loans for over 30 years. Banks manipulated the rate because it relied on estimates rather than real transactions. A new system called SOFR replaced ...
The Financial Stability Board has urged market participants to act promptly to ensure that their USD LIBOR-linked contracts are transitioned to a new reference rate by the end of June deadline. With ...
On Thursday, the risk-free rate working group at the Bank of England published its priorities for the transition away from Libor to Sterling’s risk-free replacement interest rate, Sonia. Making a firm ...