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by teiferer 2 days ago
Mentioning what SOFR is would be incredibly useful.

Gemini: The Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) is a broad measure and benchmark interest rate for U.S. dollar-denominated loans and derivatives, reflecting the cost of borrowing cash overnight backed by Treasury securities.

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The first sentence of the first section entitled "The Rate" reads as follows

> The rate tracks SOFR (the Secured Overnight Financing Rate), the benchmark overnight interest rate published every business day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

See https://docs.carolinacloud.io/organizations/prepaid-interest...

> The first sentence of the first section entitled "The Rate" reads as follows

That's nice. Though I won't read that far if I have no idea what this is going to be about. 1 paragraph is how much you get my attention for and if that's not enough then my attention goes elsewhere.

When LIBOR was killed, financial derivatives were forced to reference (compounded) SOFR, it's a trimmed average of all the overnight lending agreements.