Banks and hedge funds spur growth in OIS trading

"Increased interest in OIS products started around August 8 last year at the start of the credit crisis, and the Libor-OIS spread started to widen," said Carl Lantz, interest rate strategist at Credit Suisse in New York.

Historically, Libor has more or less tracked base rates but, as the crisis unfolded in the credit markets in the second half of last year, Libor has spiked above base rates more than other interest rate measures, such as OIS. Prior to the middle of last year, Libor and OIS had

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