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  2. Here’s how the Secured Overnight Financing Rate works ... - AOL

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    Today it’s a benchmark used for pricing countless financial products, including variable-rate loans and lines of credit. ... to stop basing rates for new loans on Libor starting in 2022. The ...

  3. SOFR - Wikipedia

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    In 2022, the LIBOR Act passed by the U.S. Congress established SOFR as a default replacement rate for LIBOR contracts that lack mechanisms to deal with LIBOR's cessation. [2] The Act also grants a safe harbor to LIBOR contracts that transition to SOFR. [2] Previously, SOFR was seen as the likely successor of LIBOR in the US since at least 2021. [1]

  4. Libor - Wikipedia

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    The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) came into widespread use in the 1970s as a reference interest rate for transactions in offshore Eurodollar markets. [25] [26] [27] In 1984, it became apparent that an increasing number of banks were trading actively in a variety of relatively new market instruments, notably interest rate swaps, foreign currency options and forward rate agreements.

  5. Reference rate - Wikipedia

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    A reference rate is a rate that determines pay-offs in a financial contract and that is outside the control of the parties to the contract. It is often some form of LIBOR rate, but it can take many forms, such as a consumer price index , a house price index or an unemployment rate .

  6. Federal funds rate - Wikipedia

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    Though the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) and the federal funds rate are concerned with the same action, i.e. interbank loans, they are distinct from one another, as follows: The target federal funds rate is a target interest rate that is set by the FOMC for implementing U.S. monetary policies.

  7. Overnight indexed swap - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the spread is based on the LIBOR Eurodollar rate and the Federal Reserve's Fed Funds rate. [2] LIBOR is risky in the sense that the lending bank loans cash to the borrowing bank, and the OIS is stable in the sense that both counterparties only swap the floating rate of interest for the fixed rate of interest. The spread ...

  8. Here's how the Fed's interest rate cut today could impact ...

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    The Fed cut its federal funds rate — the interest rate banks charge each other for short-term loans — by 0.25 percentage points, lowered the rate to a range of 4.25% to 4.5%, down from its ...

  9. Yield curve - Wikipedia

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    Whilst the yield curves built from the bond market use prices only from a specific class of bonds (for instance bonds issued by the UK government) yield curves built from the money market use prices of "cash" from today's LIBOR rates, which determine the "short end" of the curve i.e. for t ≤ 3m, interest rate futures which determine the ...