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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: This is an update to a previous post. This update highlights the formal endorsement of Term SOFR by the ARRC, expands the discussion to include Ameribor and dives more deeply into the issues associated with Term SOFR swaps resulting in a mismatch with any related hedge by the Lender. The ARRC has endorsed (HERE) CME’s Term SOFR. One of the bigger pieces to this announcement and earlier related announcements (Scope of Use Cases), is that U.S. regulators will also permit Term SOFR Swaps, when one of the parties is an “end-user”....

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The U.S. chapter of FFA Next Gen held its second virtual panel session this week, titled “Into the Unknown”: A Fund Finance Perspective on “Letting LIBOR Go.” Over 215 attendees heard from expert panelists Jean MacInnes, Executive Director and Counsel at Mizuho Americas, Jeff Nagle, Partner at Cadwalader, and Tess Virmani, Associate General Counsel and Executive Vice President for Public Policy at LSTA. I appreciated the opportunity to serve as panel moderator. Read on for some key takeaways.  “LIBOR is like glitter” as...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With the use of LIBOR being phased out by the end of 2021 and its prevalence in corporate loans, adjustable-rate mortgages, floating rate notes, securitized products and derivatives products, nearly all lenders and borrowers will be impacted. Husch Blackwell attorneys have put together responses to frequently asked questions related to the LIBOR transition. What is LIBOR? The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is a benchmark interest rate at which major global banks lend to one another in the international interbank market for sh...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On November 30, 2020, ICE Benchmark Administration (“IBA”), the administrator of U.S. Dollar LIBOR (“USD LIBOR”) and other IBORs, lowered the pressure with respect to the upcoming cessation of USD LIBOR. IBA announced that, following a consultation in December and January, (i) it intends to cease publication of 1-week and 2-month USD LIBOR at the end of 2021 and (ii) subject to compliance with applicable regulations, including as to representativeness, it does not intend to cease pu...