Thursday, July 5, 2012

Barclays Complicit, Negligent or Incompetent? Is there a question?




From the WSJ: A day after abruptly resigning amid a mushrooming scandal over interest-rate manipulation, former Barclays PLC chief Robert Diamond on Wednesday was assailed by British lawmakers for the bank's actions, in a preview of the scrutiny likely to lie ahead for other big lenders that are under investigation.

Barclays last week agreed to pay $453 million to settle U.S. and British authorities' allegations that the British bank tried to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, which is the benchmark for interest rates on trillions of dollars of loans to individuals and businesses around the world….

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