27 Oct, 2023 LMA publishes EURIBOR fallback wording By Davide Barzilai It has taken quite some time to put together, but on 26 October 2023, LMA published an exposure draft of the Term €STR fallback for...
05 May, 2023 EURIBOR fallbacks: a Working Group update By Davide Barzilai It is great to see the Working Group on Euro Risk Free Rates issue Guidance on EURIBOR Fallbacks for Corporate Lending products on 4 May...
24 Apr, 2023 ARRC Updates its Term SOFR scope of use recommendations By Davide Barzilai On Friday April 21, 2023, the ARRC issued a summary and update to its July 2021 Term SOFR scope of use best practice recommendations. The...
17 Apr, 2023 What happens when an RFR is not quoted on a particular day? By Davide Barzilai So - Easter weekend calculations are coming back to bite us! I recall in the early days of LIBOR Transition we used Easter weekend as a...
03 Apr, 2023 FCA confirms synthetic USD LIBOR By Davide Barzilai With less than 3 months to go before the cessation of USD LIBOR, as anticipated in the November 2022 consultation (CP22/21: Consultation...
26 Jan, 2023 ARRC's latest recommendations (Jan 19, 2023) By Davide Barzilai So, following their Jan 19, 2023 meeting (see January 19 Meeting Readout (newyorkfed.org)), the US Alternative Reference Rates Committee...
23 Dec, 2022 FSB issues its 2022 progress report on LIBOR Transition By Davide Barzilai On 16 December 2022, the Financial Stability Board (the FSB) issued a progress report on LIBOR and other benchmarks transition issues....
23 Nov, 2022 FCA announcements on synthetic sterling and USD LIBOR By Davide Barzilai The UK's FCA has already announced its decision to allow 1‑ and 6‑month sterling LIBOR to cease at end‑March 2023 and on 23 November 2022...
29 Sep, 2022 1 and 6 month synthetic sterling LIBOR will cease at end-March 2023 By Davide Barzilai The FCA has spoken - the market has until the end of March 2023 to stop using synthetic sterling LIBOR for 1 and 6 month periods. That...
21 Sep, 2022 USD LIBOR Transition in the Loan Markets By Davide Barzilai We are coming up to 9 months left for USD LIBOR - time has flown by and much work has been done to prepare for the transition. We are...