The End of LIBOR and the Emergence of SOFR: A Critical Financial Transition

It has nearly a 50-year long history. Each day, 18 international banks submit their ideas of the rates they think they would pay if they had to borrow money from another bank on the interbank lending market in London. It was the average interest rate on transactions that a selection of banks carried out with one another on a daily basis, for each currency and maturity term, and it was regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). It was kind of like a benchmark for interest rates. LIBOR reached its final retirement on June 30, 2023....