Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE), a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) has published its fourth update regarding the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index.
The U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index will be a forward-looking, credit-sensitive benchmark designed specifically as a potential replacement for LIBOR for U.S. dollar lending activity. The index has been developed to measure the average yields at which investors are willing to invest U.S. dollar funds over one-month, three-month and six-month periods in large, internationally active banks on a wholesale, senior, unsecured basis.
IBA introduced the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index in a white paper in January 2019. IBA has since published three further updates in April, July and October 2019, to update market participants on the details of the proposed Index methodology as it has evolved, to provide testing results, and to seek feedback.
IBA has been testing the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index since December 2017. In today’s update, IBA provides updated testing results through late April 2020, which can be found on IBA’s website, as well as providing information regarding further refinements to the Index methodology.
Over the coming months, IBA intends to continue testing and finalizing the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index methodology, whilst working with large, internationally active banks to obtain agreements to provide funding data on an on-going basis to calculate the Index. Subject to this, IBA is seeking to launch the Index in the latter part of 2020 for use by market participants. IBA will keep market participants informed of its progress.
There is no guarantee that IBA will continue to test the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index, be able to source data to derive the Index or publish the Index in the future. Users of LIBOR should not rely on the potential publication of the U.S. Dollar ICE Bank Yield Index when developing and executing transition or fallback plans.
