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 273-page decision, U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said that despite 14 years of litigation, investors lacked ...
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 ...
It took more than a decade but Libor, the benchmark borrowing rate at the heart of a rigging scandal that blew up in the early 2010s, is now officially no more. A Libor rate was used for the last time ...
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 ...
A federal judge granted a group of big banks including Bank of America Corp. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. their bid to end a long ...
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 ...
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 ...