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On March 5, 2021, the ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA), UK
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and International Swaps and
Derivatives Association (ISDA) made important announcements
regarding the timelines of the cessations of the London Interbank
Offered Rate (LIBOR).
LIBOR cessation dates
The IBA, which administers LIBOR, confirmed in its feedback
statement on its consultation regarding the cessation of its
publication of LIBOR that the majority of LIBOR panel banks would
not be willing to contribute to LIBOR in the future and announced
that it will cease publishing the LIBOR rates described below, as
6 month
In its announcement, the FCA made it clear that these nine tenors of LIBOR would no longer be representative after 30 June 2023 whether or not there was a determination to allow continued publication of a synthetic version of one or more of these tenors of LIBOR after that date. The FCA reminded market participants that, if permitted, the publication of Synthetic LIBOR would be intended to assist parties unable to transition tough legacy contracts by 30 June 2023. Synthetic LIBOR will not be available for new contracts because, as noted above, is the LIBOR rate that a synthetic version continues would be unrepresentative for the purposes of UK BMR.
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently
reiterated that 2021 is the critical year for firms to
complete their transition away from
LIBOR .
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LIBOR).
In this article, we discuss the current state of play and the
measures governments and institutions are taking to aid this
transition, including the development of overnight risk-free rates
(
RFRs), recommended transition milestones and
proposed legislative reform.
Development of RFRs
The European Central Bank commenced publishing the Euro Short
Term Rate on 2 October 2019, and since then RFRs for all LIBOR