Podcast: Credit Funds: Pro Rata Sharing Provisions – Key Points for Lenders
Amending Fund Finance facilities to replace LIBOR as the primary benchmark interest rate has all the makings of a potential client experience disaster for your Fund sponsor clients. This is not just theoretical – we are...more
In the last week we have had a very big development in the LIBOR transition: The ARRC has now formally recommended forward-looking Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) term rates. This is big news for your fund finance...more
On 5 March 2021, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) announced that all LIBOR settings will either cease to be provided by any administrator or will no longer be representative by 31 December 2021 or, for some...more
On March 24, 2021, New York State’s Senate and Assembly approved LIBOR transition legislation. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s consent awaits and is expected as the governor indicated his support earlier this year...more
The U.S. dollar LIBOR interest rate index is the most widely used variable interest rate benchmark in the world, serving as the reference rate for over an estimated $200 trillion of financial products worldwide, and official...more
Since the end of 2017, we have been talking about the discontinuation of LIBOR as a reference rate for borrowers who finance with floating rate loans. The December 2021 end date is fast approaching, but much work remains to...more
There are many types of swaps: commodity swaps, foreign exchange swaps, but of primary interest to real estate lawyers are interest rate swaps. Interest rate swaps are colloquially thought of as contracts by which a naturally...more
In case you haven’t heard, the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) may be phased out by the end of 2021. Why? Because the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) in the U.K. announced in July 2017 that it will stop requiring...more
LIBOR, a key interest-rate benchmark for commercial loans, is published daily by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). After December 31, 2021, the FCA will no longer require banks to submit their daily rates, which...more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom plans to phase out the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) by the end of 2021. LIBOR is the benchmark rate that many banks use to set interest rates in loan...more
A London seminar considers what may become of the long-time benchmark interest rate as it faces possible obsolescence—and what might take its place. Although the 2021 deadline, after which LIBOR will not be supported by...more
After a long and at times scandalous life, LIBOR is retiring. Earlier this year, Andrew Bailey, chief executive officer of the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the regulator of the London Interbank Offered...more
Trillions of dollars’ worth of financial documents use the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, to set the interest rate of a transaction. The ICE Benchmark Administration currently maintains a reference for LIBOR by...more
As you may know, on July 27, 2017 the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief executive Andrew Bailey announced that market participants should not rely on the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) being available after...more
You know, sometimes life’s problems smack you against the side of the head like a 2×4, and sometimes it’s just a multiplicity of middling offenses that become so annoying that you might just want to roll over and die. Think...more