Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Libor and more big bank criminality: who could have predicted such a thing?!? I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked!Barclay's Bank recently was exposed as having illegally manipulated the key international borrowing rate called Libor, the London Interbank Offered Rate”) .This report from Aljazeera English summarizes the scandal in this report, How Barclays manipulated the libor rates YouTube date 07/02/2012: In that segment, former banking regulator Bill Black calls it "the largest rigging of prices in the history of the world by many orders of magnitude." Cora Currier takes on the case for ProPublica in Beyond Barclays: Laying out the Libor Investigations 07/06/2012: Settlements filed by government regulators in the U.S. and the U.K. show this manipulation happened in two ways: first, Barclays' traders attempted to steer rates up or down in order to benefit trades they had made to profit off of those rates. Separately, the filings show that during the financial crisis, Barclays tried to counter reports that it had financial troubles by changing the interest rate it reported.Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich calls it The Wall Street Scandal of all Scandals 07/07/2012: So far, the scandal has been limited to Barclay’s, a big London-based bank that just paid $453 million to U.S. and British bank regulators, whose top executives have been forced to resign, and whose traders’ emails give a chilling picture of how easily they got their colleagues to rig interest rates in order to make big bucks. (Robert Diamond, Jr., the former Barclay CEO who was forced to resign, said the emails made him "physically ill" – perhaps because they so patently reveal the corruption.)The power of the financial sector has to be restrained by effective independent regulation. Tags: libor scandal | +Save/Share | | |
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