Question ID: 3176
Regulation Reference: Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data
Topic: Risk Free Rate (RFR)
Status: Rejected
Date of submission: 24 Oct 2024
Question
The question relates to the inputs used to construct USD risk-free rate. On the latest RFR Technical documentation (24-09-2024), table 5 on page 36 has column for 16 year tenor with USD marked as input to calculations. Is this intentional, as requesting data for RIC USDSROIS16Y= returns "Invalid RIC."?
EIOPA answer
You are correct about the RIC used for the 16Y maturity of the USD curve. In general, if a RIC is not available although it is associated with a DLT point, it should be treated as a missing data point in the calculation. Hence, the interpolation algorithm works as if there is no 16Y point, but the missing point counts in the evaluation of the 80% availability criterion of the market data.
Nevertheless, a RIC for the 16Y tenor point might become available anytime and therefore must be checked (and possibly used) every calculation.