LIBOR set interest rates for trillions of dollars in loans for over 30 years. Banks manipulated the rate because it relied on estimates rather than real transactions. A new system called SOFR replaced ...
In a decision with general importance to financial markets, Standard Chartered Plc v Guaranty Nominees Limited and others [2024] EWHC 2605 represents the first time that the English court has ruled on ...
UBS Group AG, Royal Bank of Scotland, and several other banks escaped a yearslong lawsuit claiming they manipulated Libor interest rates, after the Second Circuit on Monday affirmed a lower court’s ...
Recent cases show that DOJ prosecutions of financial market misconduct, like FX and LIBOR manipulation, often face legal ...
Despite clearing his name, Tom Hayes' conviction is still listed on the police national computer, meaning he cannot get a ...
The Supreme Court is poised to rule on the cases of two former City traders jailed for rigging interest rates, amid concerns raised by senior politicians that there may have been a series of ...
Within the financial sector, few topics are hotter right now than the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate, or Libor. Libor, essentially, is the average benchmark for different interest ...
Is the increased gap between Libor and overnight rates a Machiavellian scheme, where liquid banks are forcing up Libor to earn extra cash on products that are indexed against this measure of money ...
(Reuters) - World financial markets must continue to quickly and safely shift from the scandal-plagued Libor reference rate to alternatives including a U.S. option that was born just last month, a ...
The cost of three-month dollar loans slid to a new record low today after Bank of America Corp. said it had raised around $13.5 billion to shore up its capital position. Earlier this month, the U.S.
When the LIBOR interest-rate fixing scandal broke wide open over the summer, I asked whether it was “The Crime of the Century.” The answer to that question relied on whether banks were understating ...
The LIBOR money-market rates, widely used around the world as the benchmark for interest rates on mortgages, credit cards and billions of dollars worth of other financial transactions, will be cleaned ...