Member States’ ambassadors to the EU are expected to give their green light on Wednesday 7 October to the Council’s negotiating mandate on the proposal to amend EU rules to give the EU new powers to designate, where necessary, a replacement index for a widely used financial benchmark that is being discontinued in order to avoid disruption to financial markets (see EUROPE B12535A14).
In the immediate term, the aim is to prepare, from the end of 2021, for the disappearance of LIBOR...