A significant amount of the Fixed-To-Floating Rate Preferred and Baby Bond securities tied to 3-Month Libor are above initial coupon rate when they float. Recent legislation removes risk associated ...

NEW YORK, May 22 (Reuters) - The effective demise of the tainted London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) next month and the switch to the risk-free rate has renewed concerns about the potential negative ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced that all U.S. law-governed U.S. dollar LIBOR ICE Swap Rate (“USD LIBOR ISR”)-linked debt securities issued by Morgan Stanley and ...

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As the process for replacing the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) nears its conclusion, existing contracts that do not provide for the use of a replacement ...

LIBOR set interest rates for trillions of dollars in loans for over 30 years. Banks manipulated the rate because it relied on estimates rather than real transactions. A new system called SOFR replaced ...

Companies are paying more to hedge a forward-looking interest-rate benchmark that is being widely used to replace the troubled London interbank offered rate, an added expense that comes as finance ...

LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - Britain's finance watchdog wants banks to speed up a shift to new interest rate benchmarks that replace the Libor rate which is being scrapped after December. The London ...

— -- A new scandal in the banking industry is undermining its image, already tarnished by rogue trading at JPMorganChase and the 2008 subprime mortgage collapse. At the heart of the scandal: ...

Preferred stocks from mortgage REITs that hold government-guaranteed mortgages offer very high yields relative to the risk. Evaluating risk versus reward is the most important evaluation when ...

Learn how the current index value impacts variable-rate loans, affecting interest rates with indexed rates and margins. Essential for market-related financial decisions.