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''Funds transfer''.
''US interest rate benchmarks''.
The facility for a credit institution established in one country (home country) to become a direct participant in an interbank funds transfer system (IFTS) established in another country (host country) and, for that purpose, to have a settlement account in its own name with the central bank in the host country, without necessarily having established a branch in the host country.


SOFR is the Secured Overnight Financing Rate.


== See also ==
This is a broad treasuries repo financing rate, recommended as a benchmark by the Alternative Reverence Rates Committee (ARRC) of the Federal Reserve.
* [[Interbank Funds Transfer System]]
 
* [[Settlement account]]
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==
*[[Alternative Reference Rates Committee]]
*[[Federal Reserve]]
*[[LIBOR]]
*[[Reference rate]]
*[[Risk-free rates]]
*[[Repo]]
*[[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 09:13, 11 July 2018

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