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1. An asset provided as security for a debt.
 
A measure stated on a standardised basis, to enable comparison.
 
For example, an effective annual rate.
 
 
2.
 
A quantified standard of performance set by the market (such as stock market index) or by an institutional investor (such as an internally developed benchmark) against which investment performance, or other performance, can be managed and tracked.
 
 
3.
 
A standard of performance including less readily quantified measures, such as satisfaction.
 
 
4.
 
An officially published rate of interest, from which a rate of interest payable or receivable is calculated.
 
Historically, for example, LIBOR.
 
A related rate of interest payable might be LIBOR + 1%.
 
 
''The Financial Stability Board (FSB) recommended in 2014 that stakeholders should identify risk-free rates that might be used as alternatives to LIBOR.''


2. Security provided in respect of a financial transaction, such as a swap. Collateral is normally provided in the form of cash or readily marketable securities.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Alternate Base Rate]]
* [[Caps]]
* [[Baseline]]
* [[Haircut]]
* [[Base rate]]
* [[Repurchase agreement]]
* [[Benchmarking]]
* [[Risk mitigation]]
* [[Benchmarks Regulation]]
* [[Secured debt]]
* [[Effective annual rate]]
* [[Security]]
* [[EURIBOR]]
* [[Collateral agreement]]
* [[European Money Markets Institute]]
* [[Fallback]]
* [[Financial Stability Board]]
* [[Good practice]]
* [[LIBOR]]
* [[Risk-free rates]]
* [[Spread to Treasury/ Governments]]
* [[Stakeholder]]
 
 
===Other links===
 
[http://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/interest-rate-benchmark-reform-transition-world-without-libor A World without Libor - FCA speech - July 2018]
 
[[Media:ACT LMA Future of LIBOR Guide 0318.pdf| The future of LIBOR: what you need to know, ACT & LMA, March 2018]]
 
[[Media:Slaughter and May interest rate benchmarks.pdf| 2021: A Benchmark Odyssey, Practical Guidance for Treasurers on interest rate benchmarks, Slaughter and May]]


[[Category:Compliance_and_audit]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Risk_frameworks]]

Revision as of 09:01, 7 November 2013

1. An asset provided as security for a debt.

2. Security provided in respect of a financial transaction, such as a swap. Collateral is normally provided in the form of cash or readily marketable securities.

See also