The benchmark will have its last fixing at around 6:55 a.m. New York time on Friday, and some borrowers and lenders are still scrambling to amend contracts.
Debt investors losing millions on the move to SOFR are starting to fight back, requiring credit spread adjustments to make up the difference between the benchmarks.
As LIBOR rises—blowing past 1% yesterday, for the first time in nearly two years—more struggling junk-rated borrowers may end up with negative cash flow, unable to pay interest payments on their loans.
MicroStrategy sold $500 million of junk bonds to fund purchases of bitcoins. This approach provides a back door into cryptocurrencies for investors that can't buy bitcoins directly.