Following the ongoing story of Libor diverging from the OIS rate (see earlier post), Risk magazine reports that Libor risks losing its place as a funding benchmark. Spreads against the OIS have tightened recently (see recent article in the FT), but Mustafa Chowdhury, head of US interest rate research at Deutsche Bank in New York, says that Libor is becoming less relevant as a benchmark due to banks accessing other sources of funding such as Federal Reserve Funds.

Time to change all of those benchmark yield curves across the entire institution and understand all of the pricing differences? Ouch! Maybe wait a while yet…