If your credit card's variable interest rate was tied to LIBOR, you should have gotten notice from your issuer that your card will transition to a new index. There are rules related to the transition ...
LONDON (Reuters) - On June 30, British bank NatWest sent out an arcane-sounding press release - bus operator National Express had become the first company to take out a loan based on Sonia, a ...
Now is the time to transition away from the London interbank offered rate, the decades-old benchmark used to calculate the rate of interest charged on more than half of adjustable-rate U.S. home ...
It’s time to stop “postponement syndrome” over the expiration of the London interbank offered rate. There can be no more stalling. In March, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Randal Quarles ...
The advent of a new calendar year means many things. For municipalities with outstanding bank loans or interest rate swaps, 2020 may be the year when many first hear about the long-planned phase-out ...
The term Libor has been thrown around plenty over the last couple of weeks thanks to yet another scandal ripping through the banking industry. Consider that the 2008 financial crisis, a crisis that ...
Matt Levine at Dealbreaker points out something that I had never quite realized: A lot of smart people believed that Libor was the risk-free rate of interest. The Libor scandal has always puzzled me ...
We've been talking a lot lately about what's been dubbed the "LIBOR rate fixing scandal," where some of the biggest banks in the world have been accused of manipulating a key global interest rate. If ...
A new scandal in the banking industry is undermining its image, already tarnished by rogue trading at JPMorgan Chase and the 2008 subprime mortgage collapse. At the heart of the scandal: manipulation ...
For half a century the series of interest rates known collectively as the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, has helped determine the cost of all sorts of borrowing around the world. But over ...