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FASB proposes guidance on LIBOR transition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019 | by Michael Cohn | ACCOUNTING TODAY

The Financial Accounting Standards Board released a proposed accounting standards update Thursday to help banks and other types of businesses make the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate, a benchmark interest rate at which major global banks make short-term loans to one another, to new reference rates. … Regulators began pushing for banks to move away from LIBOR after a scandal erupted in 2012.

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