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       The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), serving as the benchmark for borrowings, loans and derivative contracts, used to be the most important pricing reference rate in the international financial market, entered history by the end of 2021. One factor of its cessation is that it is easy to be manipulated, causing the market to question the representativeness of LIBOR. The Central Bank pointed out that since the 2008 financial crisis, there had been quite a few cases of banks manipulating LIBOR quotations, prompting a wave of reforms. Regulators globally have been working on alternative Risk-Free Rates (RFRs) with the underlying promise of better governance and oversight around major interest rate benchmarks.【25 分】