Stunning Libor Fraud Admissions: "As For Kick Backs We Can Discuss That At Lunch" And Much More
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2013 10:45 -0400
Remember when everyone decried wholesale Libor manipulation as a crazy conspiracy theory (Zero Hedge: January 2009: "This Makes No Sense: LIBOR By Bank" - after all, it was impossible for so many people to keep their mouth shut or whatever the generic justification is for disproving such "conspiracy theories"? Why, none other than ICAP chief Michael Spencer says they all though Libor was "unmanipulable." As it turns out, not only is Libor "manipulable", and a vast rate-rigging "conspiracy theory" is quite possible when everyone's interests are aligned, but it also is quite profitable, as ICAP just found out to its public humiliation. $87 million worth of humiliation.
Stunning Libor Fraud Admissions: "As For Kick Backs We Can Discuss That At Lunch" And Much More | Zero Hedge
by Tyler Durden on 09/25/2013 10:45 -0400
Remember when everyone decried wholesale Libor manipulation as a crazy conspiracy theory (Zero Hedge: January 2009: "This Makes No Sense: LIBOR By Bank" - after all, it was impossible for so many people to keep their mouth shut or whatever the generic justification is for disproving such "conspiracy theories"? Why, none other than ICAP chief Michael Spencer says they all though Libor was "unmanipulable." As it turns out, not only is Libor "manipulable", and a vast rate-rigging "conspiracy theory" is quite possible when everyone's interests are aligned, but it also is quite profitable, as ICAP just found out to its public humiliation. $87 million worth of humiliation.
Stunning Libor Fraud Admissions: "As For Kick Backs We Can Discuss That At Lunch" And Much More | Zero Hedge