Life after Libor: Who’s ready and who’s not?

The transition of most of the global financial markets away from Libor and the adoption of risk-free rates is finally upon us. As the clock counts down to the demise of Libor for all new contracts, the focus is firmly on where the sticking points remain: the ‘tough legacy contracts’ and the US dollar loan market.

When a small group of US bankers sat down a few years ago with Steve Mnuchin, they had a simple message for president Donald Trump’s Treasury secretary. A push was emerging for US lenders to adopt a new risk-free benchmark, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (Sofr), in place of the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor), which was slated to be scrapped, and the bankers believed this was a mistake.

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