This decision reflects the lack of SLIBOR's usage of in benchmarking loan products in the domestic financial market, along with a global trend of phasing out IBORs.
February 27, 2020ISDA will consult on a single protocol that would allow participants to include both pre-cessation and permanent cessation fallbacks in derivatives trades.
February 6, 2020New Zealand will operate a dual interest rate benchmark system, retaining the Bank Bill Benchmark Rate and using the OCR as its fallback.
January 31, 2020TMA published feedback from market participants on HONIA as the successor to HIBOR in late December but unlike its US counterpart SOFR, Asian businesses are taking time to adapt.
January 20, 2020The supplemental consultation seeks input on adjustments that would apply to €STR if fallbacks in euro LIBOR or EURIBOR take effect, including the final parameters for these adjustments.
December 19, 2019In its latest progress report on benchmark reform implementation, the FSB calls for "significant and sustained efforts" to transition away from LIBOR by end-2021.
December 19, 2019ISDA is prepared to re-consult on adding a mandatory pre-cessation fallback clause in LIBOR contracts once it gets clarity from regulators on the implications of a “non-representative” LIBOR.
December 10, 2019The FSB says a pre-cessation trigger should be added alongside a cessation trigger as standard language in definitions for both new and outstanding derivatives contracts.
November 21, 2019Survey findings and discussions with banks in the region indicate a lack of readiness for the LIBOR transition. But, failure to keep up will eventually prove disruptive, KPMG says.
November 21, 2019The majority preferred a historical median spread adjustment with a five year lookback period, and a two-banking-day backward shift adjustment for the compounded setting in arrears rate.
November 18, 2019