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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ex-UBS Group AG star trader, Tom Hayes, agreed to manipulate and rig Libor to dishonestly boost profits, prosecution lawyers said asking the UK’s top court to reject attempts to overturn his ...
In August 2015, former UBS banker Tom Hayes sat in a London courtroom after being found guilty of eight counts of conspiracy ...
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 ...
For so long have senior bankers been telling investors, creditors, rating agencies, customers and anyone else who will listen that they just need interest rates to rise and banks will be much better ...
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A former trader who had his conviction quashed for "rigging" interest rates following a 10-year legal battle is suing his former employer UBS. Tom Hayes launched a legal claim for malicious ...
LONDON, May 10 (Reuters) - Britain's finance watchdog wants banks to speed up a shift to new interest rate benchmarks that replace the Libor rate which is being scrapped after December. The London ...