Financial Benchmark Administrator
Also written FBA · Financial Benchmark Administrator (FBA)
The category of body whose published benchmark may be used as a floating rate in OTC interest rate derivatives — the alternative being a rate approved by FIMMDA as transparent, objective and arm's length.
This one is not written up yet
The definition above is the short version. A full explanation — how it works, a worked example and the exam traps — is still being written. In the meantime the chapter below covers it in context.
Written up from the same chapter
- Base Minimum CapitalThe deposit every trading member must keep with the exchange purely to meet contingencies — it earns the member no trading exposure at all, and its size depends on what kind of trading the member does.
- Fit and proper personThe character and record test in Schedule II of the SEBI (Intermediaries) Regulations, 2008 that an AIF's applicant, sponsor and manager must satisfy for registration and must keep satisfying afterwards.
Where this is taught
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