Search Results for: Libor
Serious Fraud Office to seek extra £26.5m funding
October 24th, 2014
Ongoing fraud investigations into Barclays, Rolls-Royce and Libor rigging have forced the Serious Fraud Office to ask the government for an extra £26.5m. The cost of paying compensation to Robert and Vincent Tchenguiz, who built their fortune through investments ...
Deutsche clampdown on bad behavior appears exodus of traders
October 13th, 2014
Senior bankers at Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) are abandoning the bank amid a crackdown on bad behavior by traders, as the bank undergoes a probe by global regulators into allegations of attempts to rig markets, the Financial Times reported ...
U.S. Said to Ready Charges Against Banks in Forex Rigging
October 8th, 2014
U.S. prosecutors are pressing to bring charges against a bank for currency-rate rigging by the end of the year, and actions against individuals will probably follow in 2015, according to people familiar with the probe. While federal prosecutors have ...
Banks pull out of dozens of benchmarks after rate-rigging scandals
October 2nd, 2014
Some of the world’s largest banks have stopped contributing to dozens of financial benchmarks to avoid further litigation risk in the wake of the Libor and foreign exchange rate rigging scandals. Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, JPMorgan and UBS, among others, ...
Banks are puzzled over how to stop rate fixing
September 10th, 2014
Banks and regulators have still not found a way to be sure of stopping traders from manipulating Libor, foreign exchange and other benchmarks, top watchdog Martin Wheatley said yesterday. More than two years on from the first bank fine ...
The Reasons Bankers Weren’t Busted
September 9th, 2014
“There Were No Convictions of Bankers for Good Reason” is the headline of a post by Mark F. Pomerantz, a lawyer and retired partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the New York Times’s Room for Debate ...
Lloyds Sued by 220 Investors Over HBOS Takeover ‘Folly’
August 7th, 2014
Lloyds Banking Group Plc (LLOY) was sued by 220 investors who said they were misled into supporting a 2008 takeover of HBOS Plc that prompted a 20 billion-pound ($34 billion) bailout from the U.K. government. Britain’s biggest mortgage lender ...
ICE Benchmark Administration Launches Error Policy Market Consultation
August 1st, 2014
Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE: ICE), the leading global network of exchanges and clearing houses, announced that ICE Benchmark Administration (IBA) is today launching a paper for consultation on a policy to provide transparency in the event that an error is ...
Lloyds Banking Group charged with $370 million fine
July 28th, 2014
Britain’s Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY.L) has agreed to pay fines totaling $370 million to U.S. and British authorities investigating its part in a global interest rate rigging scandal and manipulating fees for a UK government lending scheme. The settlement ...
UK Serious Fraud Office to launch forex market manipulation probe
July 21st, 2014
The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) is reportedly planning to launch the criminal investigation into alleged manipulation of the $5.3trn-a-day foreign-exchange (forex) market. Unnamed sources with the knowledge of matter were quoted by The Financial Times as saying that ...
