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For current LIBOR interest rates please click here. This page contains detailed background information about LIBOR.
LIBOR in brief
LIBOR stands for London InterBank Offered Rate. LIBOR is an indicative average interest rate at which a selection of banks (the panel banks) are prepared to lend one another unsecured funds on the London money market. Although reference is often made to the LIBOR interest rate, there are actually 150 different LIBOR interest rates. LIBOR is calculated for 15 different maturities and for 10 different currencies. The official LIBOR interest rates (bbalibor) are announced once a day at around 11:45 a.m. London time by Thomson Reuters on behalf of the British Bankers' Association (BBA). The rates may only be published by partners of the BBA like us. This website shows the current LIBOR interest rates daily between 5 and 6 pm London time.
LIBOR currencies
Originally (in 1986) LIBOR was published for 3 currencies: the US dollar, the pound sterling and the Japanese yen. Over the years that followed the number of LIBOR currencies grew to a maximum of 16. A number of these currencies merged into the euro in 2000. At the moment we have LIBOR rates in the following 10 currencies (click on the currency for the current interest rate for each maturity):
American dollar - USD LIBOR Australian dollar- AUD LIBOR British pound sterling - GBP LIBOR Canadian dollar- CAD LIBOR
Danish krone - DKK LIBOR European euro - EUR LIBOR Japanese yen - JPY LIBOR New Zealand dollar - NZD LIBOR Swedish krona - SEK LIBOR Swiss franc - CHF LIBOR
LIBOR maturities
Because there are 15 different maturities there are 15 different LIBOR rates in total. Click on the maturity to see the current euro LIBOR interest rates. Should you be interested in the LIBOR rates in another currency, please click on one of the links above.
Overnight (1 day) 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 3 months 4 months 5 months 6 months 7 months 8 months 9 months 10 months 11 months 12 months
There have not always been 15 maturities. Up until 1998 the shortest maturity was 1 month. In 1998 the 1 week rate was added, and only in 2001 were the overnight and 2 week LIBOR rates introduced.