Bank of England (via Public) / The FCA and the Bank of England encourage market participants in a switch to RFRs in the LIBOR cross-currency publicnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from publicnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The FCA And The Bank Of England Encourage Market Participants In A Switch To SONIA In The Sterling Exchange Traded Derivatives Market From 17 June Date
13/05/2021
Following close engagement with market participants, the FCA and Bank of England support and encourage market users and liquidity providers in the sterling exchange traded derivatives market to switch the default traded instrument to SONIA instead of LIBOR from 17 June this year. This is to facilitate a further shift in market liquidity toward SONIA, bringing benefits for a wide range of users as they move away from LIBOR.
Statement
A key milestone recommended by the Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates (‘the Working Group’) is to cease initiation of new GBP LIBOR exchange traded derivatives expiring after 2021 by end-Q2 2021, other than for risk management of existing positions. The Working Group milestones have supervisory backing from the PRA and FCA as set out in the recent ‘Dear CEO
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
Much information has been published in recent months on the discontinuation of The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and what is to replace it. Set out below is a summary of what has happened and how it is likely to affect corporates.
WHAT HAS HAPPENED?
Regulators have expressed concerns about the suitability of the LIBOR benchmark as far back as 2017, and the need for an alternative. Whilst LIBOR will continue to be available until the end of 2021, thereafter representative LIBOR rates (i.e., rates which represent the underlying market) will no longer be available other than for the overnight, one-month, three-month, six-month, and 12-month U.S. dollar LIBOR rates, which will continue to be available until at least 30 June 2023.
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As the end of Q1 2021 draws closer, the Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates (the Working Group) published a Q&A that aims to address the end-Q1 milestone for no new GBP.