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''US interest rate benchmarks''.


The worsening of a financial position when effectively 'locked in' to a course of action or to a particular fixed price or rate, compared with the alternative which could have been followed without the lock-in.
SOFR is the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.  


For example, there is always a risk of opportunity losses when we use a fixing instrument to effectively lock in a (committed) price.
This is a broad treasuries repo financing rate, recommended as a benchmark by the Alternative Reverence Rates Committee (ARRC) of the Federal Reserve.


We are effectively locked in to the predetermined and committed price, instead of being free to take advantage of actual market rates (if they turn out to be more favourable).
It is published by the New York Fed at approximately 8am local time.  




This type of loss is also sometimes known as an 'opportunity cost'.
3 April 2018 was the first time SOFR was published. It is calculated based on actual transactions and is a volume-weighted median.  


In the first three months of the publication of SOFR the underlying overnight lending transaction volume was on average approximately USD 800 billion.


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Any loss resulting from a failure to take advantage of an opportunity.  
LIBOR, which is currently used as the main benchmark rate, is expected to discontinue by 2021 in light of multiple irregularities and lack of sustainability in the absence of an active underlying market.  


SOFR is the new benchmark USD rate (alternatively known as risk-free rate) and ARRC is working with the industry to transition to SOFR from LIBOR.   


== See also ==
 
* [[Fixing instrument]]
==See also==
* [[Opportunity cost]]
*[[Alternative Reference Rates Committee]]
* [[Opportunity risk]]
*[[Federal Reserve]]
* [[Regret risk]]
*[[IBOR]]
*[[LIBOR]]
*[[Reference rate]]
*[[Risk-free rates]]
*[[Repo]]
*[[SOFR term rate]]
*[[SONIA]]
*[[Treasury]]
 
 
===Other links===
 
[[Media:Slaughter and May interest rate benchmarks.pdf| 2021: A Benchmark Odyssey, Practical Guidance for Treasurers on interest rate benchmarks, Slaughter and May]]
 
[[Category:Corporate_financial_management]]

Revision as of 08:04, 12 September 2021

US interest rate benchmarks.

SOFR is the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.

This is a broad treasuries repo financing rate, recommended as a benchmark by the Alternative Reverence Rates Committee (ARRC) of the Federal Reserve.

It is published by the New York Fed at approximately 8am local time.


3 April 2018 was the first time SOFR was published. It is calculated based on actual transactions and is a volume-weighted median.

In the first three months of the publication of SOFR the underlying overnight lending transaction volume was on average approximately USD 800 billion.


LIBOR, which is currently used as the main benchmark rate, is expected to discontinue by 2021 in light of multiple irregularities and lack of sustainability in the absence of an active underlying market.

SOFR is the new benchmark USD rate (alternatively known as risk-free rate) and ARRC is working with the industry to transition to SOFR from LIBOR.


See also


Other links

2021: A Benchmark Odyssey, Practical Guidance for Treasurers on interest rate benchmarks, Slaughter and May

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