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Title: Have Banks Been Manipulating Libor for DECADES?
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Published: Jul 8, 2012
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Post Date: 2012-07-08 15:34:19 by tom007
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Have Banks Been Manipulating Libor for DECADES? George Washington's picture Submitted by George Washington on 07/06/2012 18:03 -0400

Bank of England LIBOR The Economist Wall Street Journal

We've previously noted that Libor manipulation has been going on since at least 2005 ... and continued long after the manipulation was first reported.

James Bianco notes today that the Financial Times started reporting on the manipulation in 2007, and the Wall Street Journal in 2008 (see this, this, this and this).

But as the Economist reports today, the manipulation probably goes back a lot further:

The FSA has identified price-rigging dating back to 2005, yet some current and former traders say that problems go back much further than that. “Fifteen years ago the word was that LIBOR was being rigged,” says one industry veteran closely involved in the LIBOR process. “It was one of those well kept secrets, but the regulator was asleep, the Bank of England didn’t care and…[the banks participating were] happy with the reference prices.” Says another: “Going back to the late 1980s, when I was a trader, you saw some pretty odd fixings…With traders, if you don’t actually nail it down, they’ll steal it.”

Given that homeowners, students, credit card holders, and other borrowers pay more when rates are higher, the banks appear to have fleeced consumers for 10 years during the entire bull run leading up to the financial crisis.

We predict that lawyers can prevail in huge class action lawsuits based on that theory alone.

As Yves Smith writes:

I expect the firms involved to face a locust swarm of litigation. Lawyers may accomplish what regulators and politicians refused to do: strip the banks of ill gotten gains and bring their preening CEOs and “producers” down a few notches. A day of reckoning may finally be coming.

Average: George Washington's picture Submitted by George Washington on 07/06/2012 18:03 -0400

Bank of England LIBOR The Economist Wall Street Journal

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