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On March 30, 2021, the LMA published its exposure draft RFR documentation as recommended forms, and updated the documentation to reflect, among other things, the Sterling Risk-free Rate Working Group’s (the
Working Group) updated conventions. The LMA also replaced their single currency SONIA and SOFR exposure drafts with two recommended form single currency RFR facility agreements, and updated their RFR terms.
Recommended Forms
The LMA first published their exposure draft multicurrency term and revolving facilities agreement incorporating rate switch provisions (lookback without observation shift) in September 2020. This was then revised in November 2020 following feedback from market participants, and another exposure draft was published based on a lookback with an observation shift (the
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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently
reiterated that 2021 is the critical year for firms to
complete their transition away from
LIBOR .
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LIBOR).
In this article, we discuss the current state of play and the
measures governments and institutions are taking to aid this
transition, including the development of overnight risk-free rates
(
RFRs), recommended transition milestones and
proposed legislative reform.
Development of RFRs
The European Central Bank commenced publishing the Euro Short
Term Rate on 2 October 2019, and since then RFRs for all LIBOR