Download PDF The risk-free rate is a very wide-spread concept and fundamental for various topics in finance, most notably corporate valuation and derivatives pricing. Often however, not much thought is given to what a risk-free asset is and what rate to use. This article will dive deeper into the theoretical Read more…
Download as PDF SOFR On November 17, 2014, the Federal Reserve Bank established its own research group, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee, a commission composed by the major international banks, central counterparties and asset managers, with the support of the U.S. Department of Treasury, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Read more…
Download as PDF ICE LIBOR Nowadays, LIBOR is administered by ICE Benchmark Administration, which publishes the rate for seven tenors (overnight, 1-week, 1-month, 2-month, 3-month, 6-month and 1-year) in five currencies (Euro, U.S. Dollar, British Pound Sterling, Swiss Franc and Japanese Yen). Currently, twenty panel banks submit their estimates between Read more…
Download as PDF The First Reaction One of the first institutional proposals for a reform of LIBOR came from the Weathley Review of LIBOR. Commissioned in late June 2012 by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, it has been driven by Martin Weathley, former managing director of the Financial Services Read more…
Download as PDF Introduction Since the 2008 Crisis, several events have undermined the global trust in the major financial benchmarks. Above all, the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) had its reputation impaired, and its role weakened. The spike in its value after the collapse and bail-out of leading banks posed Read more…
In the current increasing interest rate environment, the debate about the controversial but nevertheless important benchmark has sparked off again. This is why, we thought it relevant to provide in the following article a refresher on the history and functioning of the London Interbank Offered Rate, as well as examine Read more…
The past summer has been quite hot: we saw unexpected Brexit, Turkish failed coup, the presidential campaign in the US is on the peak, and EMs are bursting out of inflows. On the backdrop of all these events, one very interesting trend may have left out of the scope of Read more…
Two days ago, during its regular policy meeting, the ECB left interest rates unchanged and Mario Draghi said the “council was comfortable acting next time.” He signaled that there was a unanimous belief that the current inflation rate of 0.7% is unacceptable. He also stated that the strength of the Read more…
Apple, Inc. Market Cap (as of 03/05/13): $418.2 bn Transaction Size: $17.0bn On the 30th of April Apple Inc. has set a new corporate record. In fact, after having recently regained its position as the world’s most valuable company and having announced the largest share buyback in history, it sold $17bn of Read more…