Don’t bank on Euribor surviving 2020

Euribor’s administrator is confident that its reforms to the benchmark will make it eligible to be published and used after the Benchmark Regulation’s transition period ends. But don’t bank on it.

With the publication of the officially endorsed Ester benchmark still a year away, the administrator of Europe’s two most widely used benchmarks, the European Money Markets Institute (EMMI), has been hard at work reforming Euribor so that it may be compliant with new European rules on reference rates. But EMMI’s outlook for Europe’s Ibor may be a little optimistic.

Benchmark rates that don’t comply with the European Benchmarks Regulation must no longer be used by January 2020.

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