As the true impact of coronavirus started to become evident in March, it was clear that the already tight timetable for Libor transition was going to become even more challenging.
Marcus Morton, managing director valuation services at Duff & Phelps in London, told Euromoney at the time that if the transition process was “de-prioritised to the point where we get to September and nothing further has been done, then we face a real problem”.
Well, here we are, and in the intervening six months the only concrete development has been an acknowledgement that the complete transition away from Libor across all new sterling Libor-linked loans by the original target of the end of the third quarter of this year was unfeasible.
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