SOFR
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SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) is a U.S. dollar interest rate benchmark based on overnight Treasury repurchase agreement transactions, widely adopted as the primary replacement for LIBOR in financial markets.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| SOFR canonical | 4 |
| SOFR overnight index swaps | 1 |
| United States Secured Overnight Financing Rate | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3521863 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SOFR Context triple: [3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR, successorBenchmark, SOFR]
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A.
SOFR futures
SOFR futures are exchange-traded derivatives that allow market participants to hedge or speculate on future levels of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, the U.S. dollar risk-free benchmark interest rate.
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B.
3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR
3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR is a benchmark interest rate indicating the average rate at which major global banks are willing to lend U.S. dollars to one another for a three-month term in the London interbank market.
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C.
Fed funds futures
Fed funds futures are exchange-traded derivatives that allow market participants to hedge or speculate on the future level of the U.S. federal funds interest rate.
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D.
Eurodollar futures
Eurodollar futures are interest rate futures contracts based on U.S. dollar deposits held outside the United States, widely used to hedge or speculate on short-term dollar interest rates.
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E.
Marginal standing facility rate
The marginal standing facility rate is an overnight borrowing rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends funds to commercial banks, serving as a tool to manage short-term liquidity and signal the upper bound of the interest rate corridor in its monetary policy framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: SOFR Target entity description: SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) is a U.S. dollar interest rate benchmark based on overnight Treasury repurchase agreement transactions, widely adopted as the primary replacement for LIBOR in financial markets.
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A.
SOFR futures
SOFR futures are exchange-traded derivatives that allow market participants to hedge or speculate on future levels of the Secured Overnight Financing Rate, the U.S. dollar risk-free benchmark interest rate.
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B.
3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR
3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR is a benchmark interest rate indicating the average rate at which major global banks are willing to lend U.S. dollars to one another for a three-month term in the London interbank market.
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C.
Fed funds futures
Fed funds futures are exchange-traded derivatives that allow market participants to hedge or speculate on the future level of the U.S. federal funds interest rate.
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D.
Eurodollar futures
Eurodollar futures are interest rate futures contracts based on U.S. dollar deposits held outside the United States, widely used to hedge or speculate on short-term dollar interest rates.
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E.
Marginal standing facility rate
The marginal standing facility rate is an overnight borrowing rate at which the Reserve Bank of India lends funds to commercial banks, serving as a tool to manage short-term liquidity and signal the upper bound of the interest rate corridor in its monetary policy framework.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
interest rate benchmark
ⓘ
reference rate ⓘ risk-free rate benchmark ⓘ |
| acronymFor | Secured Overnight Financing Rate ⓘ |
| administeredBy | Federal Reserve Bank of New York ⓘ |
| basedOn |
U.S. Treasury repo market
ⓘ
overnight Treasury repurchase agreement transactions ⓘ |
| calculationMethod | volume-weighted median of transaction-level repo data ⓘ |
| category |
benchmark interest rate
ⓘ
overnight risk-free rate ⓘ |
| collateralType | U.S. Treasury securities ⓘ |
| compoundedVersionsUsedFor | term-adjusted interest calculations ⓘ |
| currency |
US dollar
ⓘ
surface form:
U.S. dollar
|
| dataSource | transaction-level repo data ⓘ |
| denominatedIn | USD ⓘ |
| fullName | Secured Overnight Financing Rate ⓘ |
| governedBy | published methodology of Federal Reserve Bank of New York ⓘ |
| hasDerivedRate |
180-day compounded SOFR
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30-day compounded SOFR ⓘ 90-day compounded SOFR ⓘ |
| introducedAs | alternative to LIBOR ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| overseenBy |
Federal Reserve Board of Governors
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surface form:
Federal Reserve Board
|
| primaryReplacementFor |
3-month U.S. dollar LIBOR
ⓘ
surface form:
USD LIBOR
|
| publicationFrequency | every business day ⓘ |
| publicationTime | on or about 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time ⓘ |
| publishedBy | Federal Reserve Bank of New York ⓘ |
| recommendedBy | Alternative Reference Rates Committee ⓘ |
| referenceMarket |
GCF repo
ⓘ
bilateral Treasury repo cleared by FICC ⓘ tri-party repo ⓘ |
| region |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| replaced |
LIBOR
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surface form:
USD LIBOR in many new contracts
|
| riskProfile | nearly risk-free ⓘ |
| securedOrUnsecured | secured ⓘ |
| sponsoredBy | Alternative Reference Rates Committee ⓘ |
| tenor | overnight ⓘ |
| transitionSupportedBy | U.S. financial regulators ⓘ |
| usedAs |
benchmark for bonds
ⓘ
benchmark for derivatives ⓘ benchmark for floating-rate instruments ⓘ benchmark for loans ⓘ benchmark for securitizations ⓘ |
| usedIn |
business loans
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floating-rate notes ⓘ futures contracts ⓘ interest rate swaps ⓘ mortgages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: SOFR Description of subject: SOFR (Secured Overnight Financing Rate) is a U.S. dollar interest rate benchmark based on overnight Treasury repurchase agreement transactions, widely adopted as the primary replacement for LIBOR in financial markets.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
United States Secured Overnight Financing Rate
this entity surface form:
SOFR overnight index swaps