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Tag: Financial Benchmarks

Benchmark Transition: Legacy Contracts and Legal Risks: 17 May 2018

17 May 201807 January 2021 admin

FMLC CEO Joanna Perkins gave a speech at Infoline’s Risk Free Rate conference on navigating the transition to a Risk Free Rate. She provided an overview of the Financial Stability […]

 Presentations

Journal Article: The market transition pathway from LIBOR to “risk-free” rates: 16 April 2018

16 April 201808 January 2021 admin

In an article for Butterworth’s Journal of International Banking and Finance Law, Dr Perkins and Jennifer Enwezor, former Project Manager at the FMLC Secretariat, examine the difficulties in the transition from IBOR benchmarks to alternative risk-free rates (“RFRs”).

 Presentations

Quarterly Discussion Forum meeting: 8 December 2017

08 December 201724 August 2018 admin

On 8 December 2017, members of the Quarterly Discussion Forum met for the third and last teleconference of 2017. The meeting was chaired by the FMLC. On the agenda were […]

 Quarterly Discussion Forum, Scoping Forums

Journal Article: Benchmark Transition under the new E.U. Regulation: November 2017

01 November 201721 August 2018 admin

Dr Perkins published an article entitled Benchmark transition under the new E.U. Regulation in the November edition of the Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law.  The article provided […]

 Brexit, Presentations

Letter to Bank of England: Response to BoE White Paper on SONIA: 9 October 2017

09 October 201721 August 2018 admin

In June 2017, the Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates published a White Paper entitled SONIA as the RFR and approaches to adoption.  The Working Group […]

 Publications

Financial Benchmarks: Evolution and Regulation: 13 June 2017

13 June 201707 January 2021 admin

At a seminar in Paris, organised by RIMES on 13 June 2017, on preparing for the incoming E.U. Benchmarks Regulation, FMLC CEO Joanna Perkins presented uncertainties related to benchmark evolution […]

 Presentations

Letter to U.K. Debt Management Office: Withdrawal of Reference Prices for Gilts: 31 March 2017

31 March 201721 August 2018 admin

Following the publication of the final report of the Independent Reference Prices Review in October 2016, the FMLC was alerted to concerns regarding the short transition period between the provision […]

 Publications

Benchmarks Reform: Progress and Challenges at P.R.I.M.E. Conference: 24 January 2017

24 January 201707 January 2021 admin

FMLC CEO Joanna Perkins gave a presentation at the annual P.R.I.M.E. Conference at The Hague on the progress and challenges of reforming key interest rate benchmarks.  She discussed the process […]

 Presentations

Letter to Bank of England: Reform of SONIA: 30 December 2016

30 December 201625 July 2019 admin

The FMLC responded to a consultation paper published by the Bank of England in October 2016 on the evolution of the SONIA benchmark.  The Consultation Paper sets out proposals for […]

 Publications

Letter to European Securities and Markets Authority: Draft Technical Standards under the Benchmarks Regulation: 2 December 2016

02 December 201621 August 2018 admin

Further to the extensive work of the FMLC in the area of benchmarks reform, the Committee has written a response to the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Consultation Paper on […]

 Publications

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