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The End of LIBOR: Hotel California Edition [Part V]

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In a recent alert, we highlighted the United Kingdom (UK) benchmark manipulation cases of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo from 2015 and 2019, respectively. Hayes was the first banker to be jailed in the LIBOR scandal....more

A&O Shearman

USD LIBOR panel has ceased…what now?

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June 30th has passed and one-, three- and six-month USD LIBOR settings have ceased to be published. As confirmed by the FCA on 3 April 2023, the ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) has begun publishing non-representative...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: December 2022

The Federal Reserve has adopted a final rule that provides benchmark replacement rates based on SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) for contracts governed by U.S. law that reference the overnight and one-, three-, six-,...more

Morgan Lewis

President Biden Signs Federal LIBOR Transition Legislation into Law

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President Biden on March 15 signed into law the Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act, which aims to reduce uncertainty regarding the effect of ending LIBOR on existing USD LIBOR transactions, as part of an omnibus spending...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Tough Legacy Made Easy: An Overview of the Federal LIBOR Legislation

On March 15, President Biden signed, as part of a larger appropriations act, legislation known as the “Adjustable Interest Rate (LIBOR) Act,” which addresses “tough legacy” contracts that do not provide for the use of clearly...more

A&O Shearman

UK Conduct Regulator's Rules for Use of Synthetic Sterling and Yen LIBOR Enter Into Force

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The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority's new rules permitting legacy use of certain synthetic sterling and yen LIBOR settings enter into force today. The FCA has published its final notice confirming that ICE Benchmark...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

FCA Confirms Dates for Cessation of LIBOR Benchmarks

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On 5 March 2021, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) formally announced the dates for the cessation of all London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) benchmark settings currently published by ICE Benchmark Administration...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

FCA announcement triggers LIBOR endgame

On 5 March 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the administrator of LIBOR, ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) each made important announcements for parties to instruments or other contracts referencing LIBOR. ...more

Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP

Nutter Bank Report: February 2021

HUD, VA, and USDA Coordinate Extensions of COVID-19 Relief for Homeowners - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Regulatory Considerations in the Death of LIBOR — Recent Guidance Suggests a Partial Stay of Execution

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Who Needs to Know - Lenders and borrowers involved in financing transactions, any companies using LIBOR swap or derivative transactions. ...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Signals or Noise in November for LIBOR Transition?

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Several remarks and releases by public officials and significant regulatory bodies in the first weeks of November garnered significant attention by financial institutions trying to discern next steps in the wind-down of USD...more

Stoel Rives - Renewable + Law

LIBOR Transition Will Begin to Accelerate as 2021 Approaches

Over the course of the next several months, participants that are actively engaged in project financing will need to begin thinking about how to manage the transition away from the London interbank offer rate (LIBOR, known as...more

A&O Shearman

UK LIBOR Working Group Publishes Recommendations on SONIA Conventions for the Sterling Loan Market

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The U.K.'s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates has published a set of non-binding Recommendations on the conventions that market participants may wish to adopt to support their use of the Sterling Overnight...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

Never Waste a Crisis: How Coronavirus May Help Shape the LIBOR Transition

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The transition away from LIBOR was born from the financial crisis. For years regulators have been pushing for an alternative to the dominant market benchmark. The underlying market was illiquid. The rate was set by opinion,...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

The heat is on - Regulators step up pressure to implement LIBOR transition plans

Regulators are increasing pressure on financial institutions to demonstrate that they are proactively addressing the transition away from LIBOR.  On December 23, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services...more

White & Case LLP

LIBOR and the transition to SONIA: compounding the problem?

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In 2012, the Wheatley Review recommended reform rather than replacement of LIBOR, on the basis that a transition to a new benchmark would pose an unacceptably high risk of financial instability. Reform came in the form of a...more

Jones Day

ARRC Publishes Final LIBOR Transition Recommendations for Securitizations and Bilateral Business Loans

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Financial institutions around the world are addressing the probable cessation of "LIBOR" interest rates before 2022 by, among other things, developing language designed to substitute an industry-approved successor rate (most...more

A&O Shearman

Latest Developments in the Transition from the LIBOR Lending Benchmark

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Following a recent breakfast briefing, partner Patrick Clancy (London-Finance) highlights the following four key points to be aware of regarding the latest developments in the transition from the LIBOR lending benchmark...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Summary of ARRC's Libor Fallback Proposal for Floating Rate Notes

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• The Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) recently released proposed fallback language for Libor-based floating rate note (FRN) transactions in anticipation of the cessation of Libor in 2021. • The board of...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

The Demise of LIBOR and the Challenges of Replacing It

Following the announcement that LIBOR is to be replaced, the process of finding a suitable replacement is proving troublesome. Financial Institutions will no longer be required by the FCA to provide LIBOR rates after...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

In Principle - 10 Things Authorised Firms Need To Know For 2019

In the 2018 edition of this publication, we ended the introduction with the line, “We can only hope that we will enter 2019 with greater certainty than 2018 as to how the regulatory landscape will look.” Unfortunately,...more

Holland & Knight LLP

Planning For The End of LIBOR

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By 2021, it is likely that LIBOR will no longer exist, and even more likely that it will no longer be the leading global benchmark interest rate. This news comes from the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) announcement...more

Robins Kaplan LLP

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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RBS has agreed to pay $85 million to the CFTC to resolve allegations that its traders “manipulated the ISDAfix benchmark rate over a period of five years to benefit the bank’s derivatives positions”....more

Orrick - Finance 20/20

EBA Consults on its Benchmark Rate Under the MCD

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The Mortgage Credit Directive (2014/17/EU) (MCD) requires that creditors create two illustrative examples for variable rate mortgages on the basis of a benchmark rate specified by the EBA. Consequently, the EBA has developed...more

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