There is nothing very earth shattering in these announcements...they cover ground already covered before, but it is clear that the official sector is keen to turn-up the heat on the corporate loan market.
The webinar on Friday 18 September from 9-11am will be a gathering of the great and the good on LIBOR transition, co-hosted by the BoE, FCA4, ACT5 and CBI6. It will even feature yours truly as the compère (though I wouldn't put myself in the great or good category!). The event is very much targeted at the corporate loan market.
The ‘active transition’ papers for loans and bonds speak to familiar topics for those who have read this sort of material before... know your exposure, identify alternatives, consider operational readiness etc. And most importantly do something now, don’t just wait.
But they help draw together a lot of the material in one place that has come out over the last few months or more. And the bond paper explores some of the issues around consent solicitation.
The cash credit spread adjustment paper confirms what was expected... that cash market will follow derivatives market in the 5 year median lookback methodology for fallbacks.
