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LIBOR Transition
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Corporate and Securities Law
FASB Issues Exposure Draft on LIBOR Transition
Global Regulation Tomorrow
Seminar: Retiring LIBOR – Fact or fiction?
By Hannah Meakin (UK), Davide Barzilai (UK)
On 27 September 2019 we will be holding a breakfast briefing that will provide insight to the progression of benchmark rate reform, and provide attendees with the opportunity to ask…
Crunched Credit
Killing LIBOR: A Victory for Irrational Rectitude
By Rick Jones
The US economy is about to pay the butcher’s bill for a massive disruption of worldwide financial markets resulting from the elimination of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR. …
Global Financial Regulatory Blog
Benchmark Reform – Progress Report
10 Key Regulatory Focus Areas for UK/European Wholesale Markets in 2019 By David Berman, Carl Fernandes Nicola Higgs, Rob Moulton, and Charlotte Collins This blog post explores developments relating to the EU Benchmarks Regulation and the…
Latham.London
Benchmark Reform – Progress Report
10 Key Regulatory Focus Areas for UK/European Wholesale Markets in 2019 By David Berman, Carl Fernandes Nicola Higgs, Rob Moulton, and Charlotte Collins This blog post explores developments relating to the EU Benchmarks Regulation and the…
Compliance Building
Compliance Bricks and Mortar for July 19
These are some of the compliance-related stories that recently caught my attention. REIT Manager Overpaid Itself When Calculating Incentive FeeCipperman Compliance A large REIT manager, together with its CEO and…
Regulatory & Compliance Update
SEC Staff Publishes Statement on LIBOR Transition
By Phillip J. Azzollini, Marc B. Friess, Douglas I. Koff, Anna Maleva-Otto, Paul N. Watterson, Jr., Kelly Koscuiszka, Anthony Lombardi, Atual Joshi, Schulte Roth & Zabel
On July 12, 2019, the staffs of several divisions within the SEC published a statement on the transition away from the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). The panel banks which…
Global Regulation Tomorrow
LIBOR: preparing for the end
By Hannah Meakin (UK), Emma Giddings
In a speech at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association’s (SIFMA) LIBOR Transition Briefing on 15 July 2019, Andrew Bailey, the Chief Executive of the FCA emphasized the need…
Securities Law Exchange
Managing LIBOR Transition – SEC Considerations
By Eric Knox
The Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the Staff) issued a Public Statement regarding the probable transition away from the London Inter-bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) after December 31, 2021,…
Capital Markets
SEC Staff Provides Guidance on LIBOR Transition Risks
By Rob Evans
On July 12, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) published a staff statement[1] encouraging issuers and other market participants to actively manage their transition away from LIBOR[2] and fully…