(Reuters) - A dual-track system, including survey-based lending rates along with transaction-linked indices, is likely to replace scandal-hit London i...
When I was growing up the leaders in our community were the local politicians, the mayor, and the bankers. I can remember how my grandfather, who was ...
The ghosts of the Enron Corporation are haunting us still, and they are a lot scarier than any horror movie ghosts because, unlike the Hollywood variety, these ghosts still have enough substance to cause an economic nightmare.
WASHINGTON -- U.S. regulators led by the Treasury Department have targeted an oft-criticized benchmark interest rate as a risk to financial stability,...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A judge on Friday dismissed a "substantial portion" of claims facing a number of banks in a barrage of lawsuits accusing them of ...
One pathway to genuine reform is "public banking": the establishment of banks which are owned and operated by the government, and which serve people and small businesses directly. Here's why public banking should be included in the agenda for deep and genuine financial reform.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mortgage finance company Freddie Mac is suing more than a dozen banks for losses from the alleged manipulation of the benchmark ...
Freddie Mac sued Bank of America Corp. (BAC), UBS AG, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and at least 12 other banks over alleged manipulation of the London i...
The Libor scandal is so 2012 you guys, so so boring, but thank goodness we have a brand new market-rigging scandal to enjoy now, one that will enterta...
Banking regulators in the United Kingdom did not fully understand how the global interest rate-setting system worked back in 2008, even as they were b...
PARIS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - The European Commission suspects the existence of cartels involved in manipulating lending benchmarks such as Libor and Eu...
What does "evidence of a major digital attack looming" look like? There are no convoys to see from a spy plane, no fleet heading sailing towards Hawaii. Without an idea of what this evidence is, the guidelines seem to justify preemptive attacks against just about anyone at any time.
Science has determined that people need to know 7.5 things per day, on average, about the world of business. You can't argue with science. Lucky for y...
I remain troubled by the fact that fundamental economic issues seem to be the last thing on anybody's minds in D.C. And looming over these economic problems is the elephant in the room: these Too Big To Fail, and apparently Too Big To Jail, Wall Street financial conglomerates.
That regulators condone the continued use of VAR models and get pushed around on tougher capital and liquidity limits can only mean one thing: they have concluded that it's simply too dangerous to the system to reveal that the emperor has no clothes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc settled charges it had manipulated the Libor interest rate benchmark, the top U.S. d...
(Reuters) - UBS Chairman Axel Weber raised the possibility of an industry-wide settlement for the rest of the banks involved in the Libor rate fixing ...
While federal prosecutors sought to throw the book at a 26-year-old hacker who tried to distribute information for free, federal regulators are sitting on their thumbs when it comes to community drinking water supplies.
LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland is preparing to slash bonuses for its investment bankers this year to help pay fines for its role ...
Back in 2008, when financial markets were chaotic and unpredictable, at least one large bank managed to turn a hefty profit with finely-tuned bets on ...
Maybe the Department of Justice and our financial regulators should not rely on internal investigations performed by the financial institutions suspected of misconduct.
Where is Phil Gramm hiding? The former Republican senator from Texas has not been heard from since his bank got nailed by the G-men. Or, as the Times put it, UBS now has the distinction of being "the first big global bank in more than two decades to have a subsidiary plead guilty to fraud."