On February 27, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a “Dear CEO” letter regarding the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) (the Letter). In the Letter, Head of Asset Management Supervision at the FCA, Nick Miller, noted that “LIBOR will cease after December 2021” and that asset managers must “prepare now for the end of LIBOR.”
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CFTC’s Market Risk Advisory Committee to Hold Open Meeting December 11
By Kevin M. Foley & Jack A. West on
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On December 2, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC) announced that it will hold a public meeting at the CFTC headquarters in Washington, DC on December 11 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern. At the meeting, MRAC will receive status reports from its Climate-Related Market Risk, Central Counterparty Risk and Governance, Market …
FCA Publishes Speech on Firms’ Progress To Transition From LIBOR to Alternative Risk-Free Rates
Posted in Financial Markets, UK Developments
On February 21, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a speech by Megan Butler, the executive director of supervision—Investment, Wholesale and Specialists at the FCA, on firms’ progress in transitioning from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to overnight risk-free rates (RFRs).
The FCA and the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) are in the process of analyzing firms’ responses to their Dear CEO letter in which they requested a comprehensive assessment of the potential prudential and conduct impacts associated with the LIBOR transition being carried out (as reported in the September 28, 2018 edition of Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest).
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FCA and PRA Published Dear CEO Letters on Transition From LIBOR to Risk-Free Rates
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On September 19, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published Dear CEO letters that they jointly sent to the chief executive officers (CEOs) of major banks and insurance companies regulated in the United Kingdom, regarding their preparations for the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) to alternative risk-free rates (RFRs).
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