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The LIBOR scandal is being called the "Wall Street scandal of all scandals" and the "rotten heart of finance," but the massive fraud can be hard to fathom for anyone who doesn't follow the markets.
There hasn't been a lot of news in the financial sector lately that puts investors' minds at ease. Adding insult to Great-Recession injury, the past few months have been full of new allegations ...
Libor is an average interest rate calculated through submissions of interest rates by major banks across the world. The scandal arose when it was discovered in 2012 that banks were falsely inflating or deflating their rates so as to profit from trades, or to give the impression that they were more creditworthy than they were. [3]
Why LIBOR Matters to You By messing with the LIBOR benchmark rates that are tied to an estimated $800 trillion of securities, the offending banks essentially played with matches in the middle of ...
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Alamy Here's a quick rundown from the world of business and economics this morning: the things you need to know, and some you'll just want to know. • $300 trillion worth of loans and contracts.
The LIBOR scandal is big, and getting bigger, as more and more entities line up to sue the bloomers off the big banks involved in the manipulation. What at first seemed almost non-newsworthy has ...
By James O'Toole Add one more to the list of alleged victims of Libor manipulation: homeowners. A class action complaint filed earlier this month in New York federal court claims borrowers with ...