Wealthtrack

Financial innovator Dr. Richard Sandor is known as the “father” of financial futures and carbon trading. He discusses the unheralded and significant environmental progress being made on the local level in the U.S., plus his latest innovation, an alternative to LIBOR, the troubled global interest rate benchmark. It’s the American Financial Exchange, an electronic exchange for direct interbank and financial institution lending and borrowing. It’s up and running and he considers it his “best idea yet.” WEALTHTRACK #1524 published on November 30, 2018. Explanation of acronyms used in this episode: LIBOR: the London Interbank Offered Rate U.S. AMERIBOR: a benchmark rate that reflects the actual market-determined cost of borrowing for U.S. financial institutions Federal Reserve’s SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate): a broad measure of the cost of borrowing cash overnight collateralized by Treasury securities. SIFI: Systemically Important Financial Institution INTERCONTINENTAL EXCHANGE INC. (ICE): an Ame