ARRC Releases Updated LIBOR Fallback Language for USD Syndicated Loans
by Craig Unterberg, Gilbert Porter, Brian Sung, Neal Kaminsky
Published: July, 2020
Quick Overview
Discussion On June 30, 2020, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (“ARRC”) released an updated version of its recommended reference rate fallback language for U.S. dollar (“USD”) LIBOR syndicated loans (“Updated Syndicated Loan Fallbacks”), intended to serve as a template for new originations in order to facilitate a smooth transition to an alternative reference rate. The ARRC is a group of private-market participants and regulators initially convened in 2014 by the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in anticipation of the expected phase-out of LIBOR based reference rates and the transition to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”), the ARRC’s recommended alternative reference rate for USD financing markets1. The ARRC is working in parallel with similar efforts to facilitate transitions to new reference rates in other local currency jurisdictions, and with those being undertaken by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (“ISDA”) and its members in promulgating updates to reference rate replacement terms in standard documentation governing derivatives products. Read the full article here.
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Footnotes: 1 See The Alternative Reference Rates Committee, A User’s Guide to SOFR, April 2019. |