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The ECB issues recommendations on the transition from EONIA to €STR for cash and derivatives products

Inicio » Noticias UE » The ECB issues recommendations on the transition from EONIA to €STR for cash and derivatives products

9 de September de 2019

The private sector working group on euro risk-free rates has published a report containing a set of recommendations addressing the impact of the transition from the euro overnight index average (EONIA) to the euro short-term rate (€STR).

The recommendations take an operational and valuation perspective, taking into account EONIA’s wide use as a reference rate and as a collateral remuneration and cash flow discounting rate. The report analyses the various financial products and processes affected by the transition, covering secured (e.g. repos) and unsecured (e.g. current accounts) cash products, securities, investment funds, derivatives and models referencing EONIA. The report urges market participants to prepare for: (i) the change in EONIA’s methodology as of 2 October 2019 (representing transactions executed on 1 October 2019); and (ii) the discontinuation of EONIA on 3 January 2022.

Recommendations

Regarding the change in EONIA’s publication time, the working group encourages market participants, among other things, to:

  • screen their inventory of affected transactions and system environments to assess the modifications needed to cope with the change in EONIA’s publication time and prepare relevant teams for enhanced oversight during the cutover period;
  • design a communication strategy geared towards internal and external stakeholders (clients in particular) to ensure awareness of impending changes;
  • consider adjusting the default settlement time (i.e. the lag between the last fixing date and the settlement date) in certain cases.

Regarding the transition period until EONIA is discontinued on 3 January 2022, the working group recommends, among other things, that:

  • market participants actively transition floating rate options (FROs)[1] referencing EONIA to €STR FROs before the end of 2021;
  • central counterparty clearing houses (CCPs) align their discounting switch dates as much as possible to transition from an EONIA discounting regime to a €STR discounting regime, and set the discounting switch date as early as possible, preferably towards the end of the second quarter of 2020;
  • market participants introduce all necessary modifications in order to be able to issue, buy, trade and manage new securities indexed to the €STR and avoid issuing new securities indexed to EONIA with maturities going beyond the transition period.

Background

The report was prepared following the working group’s recommendation of 14 March 2019 that market participants gradually replace EONIA with the €STR as a reference rate for all products and contracts and make all necessary adjustments for using the €STR as their standard benchmark, as well as the announcement by EONIA’s administrator, the European Money Markets Institute, that it would modify the current EONIA methodology to become the €STR plus a fixed spread of 8.5 basis points from the first publication date of the €STR, i.e. 2 October 2019, until the discontinuation of EONIA on 3 January 2022. On 16 July 2019, the working group also recommended a legal action plan for the transition from EONIA to the €STR, including recommendations on how to address the legal implications for new and legacy contracts that reference EONIA.

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Report of the private sector working group on euro risk-free rates

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