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A backstop facility is a short-term interim borrowing facility supporting a transaction, financial instrument, or other credit facility.
(NYFR).


An interest rate benchmark launched by ICAP (the inter-dealer broker) in June 2008 to respond to concern about the accuracy of [[LIBOR]] at the time and to provide a rate relating to a time when the New York market was open. It was published in New York at about 10 am and based on rates submitted by contributing banks at around 9.15 am local time.


:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Informa highly commended'''''</span>
Effectively a US domestic rate, in normal market circumstances arbitrage with the Euro-dollar market in London (still open in the New York morning) would be expected to minimise differences between the two markets - LIBOR rates being euro-currency rates, of course.


:"Highly commended in this category was Informa's complex acquisition financing deal...
Publication ceased on 9 July 2012 [[http://in.reuters.com/article/2012/08/03/icap-nyfr-rates-idINL2E8J33FN20120803]] as an insufficient number of banks were willing to contribute rates.


:The deal, which was intended to support the company's transformation acquisition of UBM, included... an £855m backstop facility for Informa's RCF, and a £400m and $720m backstop facility for the RCF, US private placement and bond at UBM."


:''The Treasurer magazine, Deals Edition 2019, p24.''
NYFR, while it was published, followed US dollar LIBOR very closely. A comparison of LIBOR and NYFR can be found in ''A comparison of Libor to other measures of bank borrowing costs'', Kuo et al.,  [[http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/economists/vickery/LiborKSV_staff_webpage.pdf]], accessed 6 August 2014.  


''Note'': This paper refers to LIBOR as an offered rate whereas since 1998 contributions are of rates at which the contributing bank would expect to be able to fund by "by asking for and then accepting inter-bank offers", and this is thus not an "offered rate" as such.


Also known as a ''backstop credit facility.''


 
==See also==
== See also ==
* [[LIBOR]]
* [[Bond]]
* [[Bridge facility]]
* [[Bridge to bond]]
* [[Bridging loan]]
* [[Facility]]
* [[Interim]]
* [[Private placement]]
* [[RCF]]
 
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Cash_management]]
[[Category:Liquidity_management]]

Revision as of 12:47, 9 January 2015

(NYFR).

An interest rate benchmark launched by ICAP (the inter-dealer broker) in June 2008 to respond to concern about the accuracy of LIBOR at the time and to provide a rate relating to a time when the New York market was open. It was published in New York at about 10 am and based on rates submitted by contributing banks at around 9.15 am local time.

Effectively a US domestic rate, in normal market circumstances arbitrage with the Euro-dollar market in London (still open in the New York morning) would be expected to minimise differences between the two markets - LIBOR rates being euro-currency rates, of course.

Publication ceased on 9 July 2012 [[1]] as an insufficient number of banks were willing to contribute rates.


NYFR, while it was published, followed US dollar LIBOR very closely. A comparison of LIBOR and NYFR can be found in A comparison of Libor to other measures of bank borrowing costs, Kuo et al., [[2]], accessed 6 August 2014.

Note: This paper refers to LIBOR as an offered rate whereas since 1998 contributions are of rates at which the contributing bank would expect to be able to fund by "by asking for and then accepting inter-bank offers", and this is thus not an "offered rate" as such.


See also