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Fixing the Fixings: What Road to a More Representative Money Market Benchmark?

By V. Brousseau, Alexandre Chailloux, Alain Durré

May 29, 2013

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V. Brousseau, Alexandre Chailloux, and Alain Durré. Fixing the Fixings: What Road to a More Representative Money Market Benchmark?, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2013) accessed November 23, 2024
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Summary

Interest rate derivatives on major currencies, with notional outstanding amounts adding up to hundreds of trillions, are mostly indexed on Libor and Euribor benchmarks, as are hundreds of billions in loans to enterprises, mortgages and other retail loans to the real economy. Yet, the prevailing role of these benchmarks appears to be more a legacy from history rather than reflecting today?s structure of banks? funding. Building on earlier work (Brousseau, Chailloux, Durré, 2009), this paper discusses various options to move towards a new benchmarking system in the money market. It proposes a more ambitious benchmark design that would consist of a trade-weighted index that would systematically pool all short-term wholesale funding operations of banks per tenor.

Subject: Banking, Currencies, Deposit rates, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Financial services, Interbank rates, Money, Money markets, Options

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Bank, Benchmarking System, Currencies, Deposit rates, Derivative instrument, Derivatives data, Euribor, Euribor-index interest rate swap, Europe, Fixings, Forward rate, Global, Index cash transaction, Interbank rates, Interest rate, Interest rate swap, Libor, London interbank offered rate, Market, Market participant, Money markets, North America, Northern Europe, Options, OTC derivative clearing houses, OTC interest rates derivative exposure, Rate derivatives instruments, Rate-indexed derivatives contract, Rate-referenced derivative products, Trading unit, Unsecured Money Market, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    22

  • Volume:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2013/131

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2013131

  • ISBN:

    9781484306772

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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