The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation sued HSBC, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank and 12 other global banking heavyweights on Friday for manipulation of the Libor benchmark interest rate. The regulator ...
In “The Trading Game,” Gary Stevenson spills secrets of the City. By Mark Gimein It has been an arduous process to get the financial system to stop relying on the tarnished interest-rate benchmark. By ...
In a recent alert, we highlighted the United Kingdom (UK) benchmark manipulation cases of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo from 2015 and 2019, respectively. Hayes was the first banker to be jailed in the ...
British police have made their first arrests in an investigation into attempts by banks to manipulate the benchmark interest rate Libor, detaining three U.K. citizens after raids on their homes near ...
Fannie Mae sued nine major banks over allegations their manipulation of the London interbank offered rate cost the mortgage financing company about $800 million. Libor is used to set global interest ...
Tom Hayes, the former British trader jailed over the Libor interest rate scandal, has filed a $400 million lawsuit against UBS, alleging "malicious prosecution and corporate scapegoating" by his ...
Barclays Bank PLC and Barclays Capital Inc. will pay $100 million as part of a 44-state settlement “for fraudulent and anticompetitive conduct” involving the manipulation of U.S. Dollar, LIBOR (the ...
Michael C. Miller, a partner at Steptoe & Johnson, and Lara Romansic, of counsel at the firm, discuss rescission, which may be a potential solution to the determination of damages caused by LIBOR ...
The first person to be charged as part of the investigation in to LIBOR manipulation has been found guilty on eight counts of conspiracy to defraud and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Former ...