Where The Post-Libor Litigation Tsunami Will Hit

By Marc Gottridge (May 13, 2019, 4:53 PM EDT) -- It is rare for a banking regulator to warn the industry of a "DEFCON 1 litigation event," a "situation that invites litigation" that "would be on a massive scale."[1] But that's precisely what Michael Held, executive vice president and general counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, recently did. Held sounded a litigation tsunami warning over the "trillions of dollars of existing contracts" that incorporate the Libor rate and extend beyond Libor's anticipated permanent cessation at the end of 2021, but lack "effective fallbacks" to replace Libor.[2]...

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