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Libor manipulation fines and civil lawsuits could cost banks anywhere from $1 billion to tens – or even hundreds – of billions, according to early estimates. But plaintiffs have a high legal bar to...
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How to mend the Libor process
Barclays’ settlement of Libor-rigging claims has sparked a full-scale financial scandal and exposed the conflicts inherent in the rate-setting process. There is a better way to organise it, says David Rowe
Risk 25 firms of the future: Deutsche Bank
Banks are still reeling from the revelation last month that staff at Barclays lied about the bank’s borrowing costs in an attempt to manipulate Libor and Euribor benchmark rates – behaviour that resulted in a roughly $450 million settlement with...
Risk 25 firms of the future: CFTC
After Barclays agreed to pay the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) $200 million on June 27, to settle a regulatory investigation into Libor manipulation, one BBC article described the derivatives market as the Wild West and the agency’s...
Risk 25: The FVA debate
Derivatives pricing practices have been overhauled in recent years, with banks becoming more conscious about funding costs. But should dealers take funding valuation adjustment into account when valuing derivatives and making trading decisions? John Hull...
New powers help in Libor investigation, Chilton says
CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton is determined to smoke out the financial wrongdoers who attempt to manipulate markets – and he is using the recent Libor fixing case as a test of the CFTC’s new powers under the Dodd-Frank Act. High-frequency traders...
Barclays fine breaks records for FSA
Wolters Kluwer Financial Services collects FSA fine data and SAS Software tracks biggest op risk events
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