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On August 12, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) issued a final rule amending its Regulation 50.4(a) clearing requirements for swaps. The latest in a...
Washington, D.C. — The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it issued a final rule modifying the Commission’s interest rate swap clearing requirement under part 50 of the CFTC’s regulations.
<p><span>I respectfully concur with the final rule updating the CFTC’s interest rate swap clearing requirement regulations. Pursuant to the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and the Commission’s regulations, subject to Commission determination, certain interest rate swaps are required to be submitted for clearing to a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) registered under the CEA or a DCO exempted from registration under the CEA.</span><span> The final rule updates this set of interest rate swaps required to be cleared in light of th...
By John McCrank NEW YORK (Reuters) - Libor, or the London Interbank Offered Rate, which had $265 trillion linked to it globally at the start of 2021, is being phased out for the most part on Jan. 1.
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 ...