Regulators continue to express concerns that the use of Term SOFR and credit sensitive rates could draw away liquidity from the overnight SOFR derivatives markets.
December 20, 2022The FCA said the current fallback language for credit sensitive rates puts market participants at risk of breaching their obligations under BMR.
September 30, 2021IOSCO says SOFR should be used in place of USD LIBOR and that it will be closely monitoring how the “IOSCO badge” is used in compliance assessments of credit sensitive rates.
September 9, 2021The contract was introduced to offer price discovery and risk hedging for the BSBY Index. CME Group plans to introduce OTC clearing of BSBY swaps in Q4.
August 25, 2021Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase entered into a $250mn one-year basis swap with one side tied to BSBY, the other to SOFR.
May 7, 2021Specialists from Bloomberg, Standard Chartered Bank, ING Bank and Clifford Chance discuss IBOR transition challenges and how to address them.
May 3, 2021BSBY includes a term structure and systemic credit-sensitive spread, and can be used to supplement Term SOFR in the lending market.
April 11, 2021