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ISDA - Transition To RFRs Review: First Quarter Of 2021 Date
27/04/2021
The Transition to Risk-free Rates (RFRs) Review analyzes the trading volumes of over-the-counter (OTC) and exchange-traded interest rate derivatives (IRD) that reference selected alternative RFRs, including the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), the Sterling Overnight Index Average (SONIA), the Swiss Average Rate Overnight, the Tokyo Overnight Average Rate, the Euro Short-Term Rate and the Australian Overnight Index Average.
Key highlights for the first quarter of 2021 include:
The ISDA-Clarus RFR Adoption Indicator, which tracks how much global trading activity (as measured by DV01) is conducted in cleared OTC and exchange-traded IRD that reference the identified RFRs in six major currencies, decreased to 9.8% compared to 9.9% in the fourth quarter of 2020.
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HoL EU Services Sub-Committee report on trade in services
On 24 March, the HoL European Union Committee published a new report on UK-EU trade in services. The report concludes that despite the agreement of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), the UK and EU still have work to do in overcoming the significant challenges that remain for trade in services. The report focuses on the implications on sectors including: (i) financial services, the TCA does not include substantive provisions on financial services, and delays to key decisions about the future relationship, particularly on equivalence, mean that the sector is still in a period of uncertainty. The UK’s exit from the passporting regime has led to the movement of some activity to the EU and firms facing the challenges involved in navigating different market access requirements in each Member State. The Committee is concerned that over time this may lead to a big shift of people and assets out of the UK. The Commit
Introduction
Although the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is currently the most widely used interest rate benchmark and serves as a price reference for a broad range of financial instruments, the UK Financial Conduct Authority will stop supporting LIBOR at the end of 2021. According to the National Working Group (NWG) on Swiss Franc Reference Rates, the Swiss Average Rate Overnight (SARON) is the proposed replacement standard. The transition period poses several challenges for national and global market participants.
In December 2020 the Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) published guidance on the LIBOR transition in Switzerland. In this guidance, FINMA requires all supervised institutions (eg, banks, securities firms and insurers) to plan and initiate the necessary actions to implement the transition roadmap outlined therein with the goal to be fully prepared and operationally ready for the planned discontinuation of most LIBOR benchmarks by the end of 2021.
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