The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”)

Primer Clause

The London Inter-bank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) is expected to be discontinued by 31 December 2021. PT Bank DBS Indonesia is currently working closely with local authorities and industry participants to enable a seamless transition for its clients.

Clients who hold investment products that may be impacted will be contacted progressively. To understand more about the LIBOR Transition and how this may impact you, please visit https://www.dbs.com/about-us/libor.page

Overview

The need to transition away from LIBOR arises from the global reform to improve the robustness and integrity of financial benchmarks. As part of this shift, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the supervisory authority of LIBOR, announced on 5 March 2021, that all LIBOR settings will cease to be provided permanently or will no longer be representative from the following dates:

• Immediately after 31 December 2021, with respect to all Sterling, Euro, Swiss Franc and Japanese Yen LIBOR settings, and the 1-week and 2- month USD LIBOR settings; and

• Immediately after 30 June 2023, with respect to the remaining USD LIBOR settings.

For more information on why the banking industry is going through this change globally and for further details on the latest developments on this reform, please visit https://www.fca.org.uk/markets/libor

What’s Replacing LIBOR

LIBOR is expected to be replaced with overnight risk-free rates (“RFRs”). For example, in the UK, the Bank of England’s Working Group on Sterling Risk Free Reference Rates has recommended the GBP LIBOR replacement to be the Sterling Overnight Index Average (“SONIA”), and for USD LIBOR, the replacement to be the USD Secured Overnight Financing rate (“SOFR”), administered by the US Federal Reserve.

Alternative Rates

What Do I Need to Do?

Because LIBOR is used to calculate interest payments on structured products, these products will be impacted by the discontinuation of LIBOR.

However, if you have at least one structured product with DBSI that references LIBOR and matures before 30 June 2023, there will be no impact on your product , and we will give further information to you should there any more updates regarding LIBOR transition impacting the product that you owned.

If you have any further questions, please feel free to call or contact your Relationship Manager.

Industry Announcements

UK FCA confirms LIBOR cessation dates

• LIBOR cessation dates - UK FCA announced on 5 March 2021 that all LIBOR settings will cease to be provided permanently or will no longer be representative from the following dates:

• Immediately after 31 December 2021, with respect to:

• all Sterling, Euro, Swiss Franc and Japanese Yen LIBOR settings,

• the 1-week and 2-month US Dollar LIBOR settings; and

• Immediately after 30 June 2023, with respect to the remaining US Dollar LIBOR settings.

• Index Cessation Event - ISDA has stated that the FCA’s announcement constitutes an Index Cessation Event under the ISDA 2020 IBOR Fallbacks Protocol and the ISDA IBOR Fallbacks Supplement, and the fallback spread adjustment for all LIBOR settings of all currencies and tenors published by Bloomberg are fixed as of 5 March 2021.

For more information, please refer to ISDA’s press release

Disclaimer

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