New benchmark to give Philippine peso swaps a fillip, post-Isda add

Isda to include new PHP overnight rate and Indonesia’s Indonia in its next definitions update

The Philippine peso interest rate swaps market is expected to get a reboot when a new overnight reference rate is incorporated into documentation, say sources. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’s variable reverse repo rate will be added in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association’s next update to its interest rate derivatives definitions, due in November. The new benchmark will be referred to as the peso overnight reference rate, or ORR.

“What we’re expecting is that once Isda publishes