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IBOR Reform in Switzerland: Transition from CHF LIBOR to SARON – part 1

10 Mar 2020
Davide Mastromarco

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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will stop supporting LIBOR from the end of 2021, while more than 80% of CHF loans are currently priced based on the CHF LIBOR. According to the Swiss National Working Group, the Swiss Average Rate Overnight (SARON) is the proposed replacement standard. The transition period poses a number of different challenges for the market.

A new standard in the Dutch mortgage market

25 Apr 2019
Elske Leenaars and Mitchell Ponder

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During the past few years, the Dutch mortgage market has changed. Although their name suggests otherwise, fixed rate mortgages are nowadays anything but fixed.

Time for collective risk mitigation

31 Jul 2018
Zaid Siddiqi

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In April 2018, The Economist wrote about the sharp increase of methane in the atmosphere during the past 10 years. This increase is worrying because, like carbon dioxide, methane retains heat and contributes to the heating of the earth. Scientists don’t agree on the cause of the increase either.

The risks of creating the wrong impression

10 Apr 2018
Zaid Siddiqi

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In the film Margin Call, a recently dismissed banker, Eric Dale, talks about one of his accomplishments as an engineer before he went into banking. He explains that he’d helped to build a bridge from Dills Bottom in Ohio to Moundsville in West Virginia, the bottom line of which was that, collectively, motorists would have to drive 487,872,000 kilometers less every year.

The balance between trust and control

9 Feb 2018
Zaid Siddiqi

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Back in 2010, the American Economic Review published the article Growth in a time of debt, which was penned by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (Reinhart and Rogoff).

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IBOR Reform in Switzerland: Transition from CHF LIBOR to SARON – part 1

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