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Meet the Man Cracking Down on the LIBOR Scandal
Gary Gensler, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is now one of Wall Street's toughest regulators.
LIBOR Rigging: What the Regulators Saw (But Didn’t Shut Down)
Thanks to the New York Federal Reserve, we now know that both the Fed and the Bank of England could see and were being told that something was awry with the...
Libor Manipulation: The Markets’ Worst-Kept Secret?
As fresh details emerge about the Libor fixing scandal that has already claimed the head of Barclays CEO Bob Diamond, everybody, it seems, is shocked – shocked!...
LIBOR Scandal: The Crime of the Century?
The twenty-first has been a banner century for financial and accounting scandals. Enron, the dot-com bust, the subprime mortgage crisis and the bank bailouts...
LIBOR Scandal: Yep, It’s as Bad as We Thought
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...
Banking’s Really Bad Day
Four years on from the financial crisis, new banking scandals still seem to break out every few months. But this week has been particularly bad for the industry...
The Money Cop
Four years on from the financial crisis, new scandals still seem to break out every few months. HSBC, the big British bank, just agreed to a $1.9 billion...
LIBOR Lending Rate Gets Overhaul (Sort Of)
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...
How Barclays Rigged the Machine
Ever wonder why surveys about very personal topics (think sex and money) are done anonymously? Of course you don't, because it's obvious that people wouldn't...
How Barclays Loaded the LIBOR Dice
Ever wonder why surveys about very personal topics (sex, money) are done anonymously? Of course you don’t – because it’s obvious people wouldn’t tell the truth...
Articles from Around the Web
Oil- price manipulation: the next Libor?
Some of the world's biggest oil companies may have a new mess on their hands. ...
Oil- price manipulation: the next Libor?
A scandal is brewing in Europe that could rival the Libor controversy, as the European Commission says it's probing suspected attempts to manipulate global oil prices. ...
US regulator group sees Libor rate as risk
A group of top U.S. regulators says the manipulation of a key global interest rate poses a risk to U.S. financial stability and are urging officials worldwide to work together to...
DealBook: Senior R. B. S. Executive in Japan Expected to Resign in Libor Scandal
A senior executive at Royal Bank of Scotland's Japanese investment banking unit is expected to resign in the wake of a rate-rigging scandal, according to a person with direct...
