While US dollar (USD) LIBOR has all but vanished from new-issue loans in 2022, the vast majority of the US loan market is comprised of legacy transactions that remain tied to the retiring rate. For every US institutional loan...more
During 2021, after months of regulatory pressure to end reliance on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), concerns were mounting that the US leveraged loan market was being too slow to adopt the Secured Overnight...more
Recent statements by LIBOR authorities in the UK have implications for benchmark fallbacks in US documents.
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") and ICE Benchmark Administration ("IBA") released statements1 on...more
Following the ARRC-recommended deadline for shifting to hardwired fallbacks, the syndicated loan market has begun to show signs of change -
Based on best practices published by the Alternative Reference Rates Committee...more
New legislation would ease benchmark transition for tough-to-amend contracts governed by NY law -
New York State Senator Kevin Thomas has introduced a bill that would provide a legislative fix for contracts that lack...more
The disruption to capital markets caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has not shifted the overall timeline of regulators and industry bodies for the replacement of US dollar LIBOR with SOFR by the end of 2021.
With the expected...more
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