2 posts categorised "LIBOR"

28 October 2019 Moving away from LIBOR? Don’t forget your client You’ve thought about repapering, market liquidity, exposure monitoring…But how about your clients? By now, most asset managers are beginning to embark on the LIBOR transition journey and wonder whether they will be ready to pull the plug at the end of 2021. As they ramp up progress though, they mustn’t forget to place client outcomes at the centre of their thinking. Conduct risk now features high on the regulatory agenda, and relevant investor protection obligations under MiFID II are likely to play an important role in helping to manage such risk. In this blog, we consider some of the key aspects of the MiFID II framework that firms should carefully consider in the context of their LIBOR transition programmes.

08 October 2019 LIBOR transition: Eliminating regulatory barriers ‘The time for last orders is now’, said Sir Dave Ramsden, Deputy Governor for Markets & Banking at the Bank of England (BoE), in a speech on LIBOR earlier this summer. Time and time again, the BoE and FCA have reiterated that LIBOR will stop after the end of 2021 and that market participants should get ready for this. To reduce reliance on LIBOR, regulators and central banks from across the globe have set up working groups to develop new risk free rates (RFRs) and promote their use wherever possible

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