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With 538 electoral college votes for grabs from 50 states (plus The District of Columbia), the electoral system might be slightly confusing, but what is at stake isn’t; like it or not the winner will set the agenda of the entire world for the next four years.
Money Market Funds are a very low risk investment option due to their liquidity and diversification but with market volatility rising and yields falling investors should not become complacent.
LIBOR looks set to disappear and new investment, borrowing and hedging products, such as interest rate swaps, are already being based on SONIA, so a good understanding of the rate is necessary.
A recent local authority interest rate swap transaction, developed by Arlingclose and believed to be the first of its kind in over thirty years, has reignited the debate around power to use derivatives. In this note we set out the legal and regulatory background to local authority use of derivatives.
Assessing risk tolerance is no easy task and requires a variety of both objective and subjective judgements.
Is it time to revisit MRP?
This topic was spoken about long before COVID-19 reared its ugly head, but with lockdowns still in place across the globe, this question is more pertinent than ever
Increasingly, Arlingclose is being asked to provide advice on local authority contracts including Private Finance Initiatives, other forms of Public Private Partnerships and Joint Ventures and outsourced services.
Local authorities which fund their borrowing requirements from either internal borrowing or short-term variable rate borrowing from other local authorities are exposed to the risk of interest rates rising. A swap is one way of managing this risk.
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