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🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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At one time not that long ago, you could find Libor in everything: mortgages, corporate loans, credits cards and more. Now, its days are numbered. The FT’s Harriet Clarfelt and Philip Stafford take us back to the 1980s origins of the scandal-ridden benchmark rate, how its reputation came apart and why, with just weeks to go before a June 30 deadline, one part of the financial world is still racing to leave it behind.
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0:29.7 | There's been a looming deadline hanging over financial markets that's coming to an end this summer. |
0:39.0 | And the deadline has to do with shifting away from this notorious benchmark rate called Libor. |
0:45.0 | It was used for decades to price different kinds of investments, like loans. |
0:50.0 | When regulators announced a few years ago that the global financial system would be moving away from Libor, |
0:56.0 | the task seemed kind of daunting. |
0:59.0 | Here's the F.T.'s U.S. capital markets correspondentent, Harriet Clerfeldt. |
1:03.3 | I spoke with a director at the investment firm KKR who has been involved in the libel |
1:08.9 | transition and she said something which really stuck out to me about basically the deeply ingrained nature of Libor, |
1:16.6 | just because it's been used for such a long time. |
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