LONDON: The US Treasury is considering issuing debt linked to the new benchmark, the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR), which has been established to replace Libor, a senior Treasury official said on Wednesday.
"We don't issue Libor bonds at the moment but we are considering issuing SOFR-linked bonds," Brian Smith, deputy assistant secretary for federal finance at the US Treasury, told a conference in London
Authories are trying to replace the London interbank offer rate (Libor) after a rigging scandal put the reference rate under the microscope.
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