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Libor

March 2024

  • Tom Hayes in a suit and tie stands with his hands in his pockets, surrounded by reporters and microphones, outside the entrance tot he Royal Courts of Justice

    ‘I’m not a quitter’: bank trader vows to continue fight after losing Libor appeal

    Tom Hayes, first banker to be convicted in 2012 rate-rigging scandal, had his case rejected by UK court of appeal

July 2023

  • Andrea Leadsom

    Westminster shareholdings
    Andrea Leadsom held shares in Barclays when questioning bank’s ex-boss

    Exclusive: Revelation about Tory former minister raises questions about adequacy of transparency rules

October 2022

  • Tom Hayes

    US court drops Libor rate-rigging charges against ex-UBS trader

    Judge dismisses case against British former trader Tom Hayes, who was jailed over interest rate scandal

February 2022

  • The entrance of the supreme court in London

    The Guardian view on privacy law and press freedom: failing to strike a balance

    Editorial: The supreme court’s ruling against Bloomberg News in a landmark case is a threat to legitimate investigative reporting

January 2022

  • Former Deutsche Bank traders Gavin Black (left) and Matthew Connolly.

    Ex-Deutsche Bank traders’ Libor-rigging convictions overturned by US court

    Charges were brought in 2016 against London-based Gavin Black and New York colleague Matthew Connolly

January 2021

  • Tom Hayes is greeted by his son after being released from Ford open prison in West Sussex.

    City trader jailed for Libor rigging freed after five years

    Tom Hayes hopes to rebuild his life and family after ‘traumatic’ time in custody

September 2019

  • Malcolm Gladwell author picture Talking to Strangers

    Books that made me
    Malcolm Gladwell: ‘A book that changed my life? Agatha Christie’s The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’

    The writer on ‘the boss’ Janet Malcolm, grappling with the Libor scandal and being read the Narnia books by his father

March 2019

  • Royal Bank of Scotland is understood to be allowing local authorities to pay back loans earlier than their original contracts allowed.

    RBS to wind down £1bn worth of contentious local council loans

    Campaigners say early repayment of lobo loans will end up saving taxpayers £16bn

February 2019

  • Sign on Royal Bank of Scotland branch

    RBS sued by Newham council over the terms of £150m in loans

    East London authority files high court claim over lender option borrower option loans

November 2018

  • People withdrawing cash from a bank dispenser

    Overhaul of UK's poor banking culture is slow, admits standards chair

    Banking Standards Board tells MPs care for vulnerable customers continues to fall short

October 2018

  • Terrace houses in a street in the east London borough of Newham

    Suspend repayments on ‘illegitimate’ loans to councils, report urges

    Workers’ co-op Research for Action calls for suspension of repayments on ‘mis-sold’ loans worth £15bn

June 2018

  • illustration: glasses revealing red number on financial reports

    The long read
    How to get away with financial fraud

    The long read: Some of the world’s biggest scandals have gone unspotted for years. The nature of fraud is that it works outside our field of vision

September 2017

  • David Cameron with apprentices at the Mini plant in Oxford in 2013

    Tory pledge to fund apprenticeships from £200m Libor fines unfulfilled, says NAO

    Cameron promised in 2015 to use cash to retrain 22-to-24-year-olds who had been unemployed for more than six months

July 2017

  • French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a selfie at the STX shipyard site in Saint-Nazaire, western France.

    Business leader
    France isn’t heading for a belle époque, but its future looks better than Britain’s

    Emmanuel Macron new dawn may be a false one, but at least his country has some industry, a decent education system and no Brexit bind
  • City of London skyline

    Libor interest rate to be phased out after string of scandals

    Index will not be used after 2021 despite reforms put in place because banks no longer want to participate in setting it
  • Former Rabobank employee Anthony Allen exits federal court in Manhattan, New York November 5, 2015

    US court overturns Libor convictions of ex-Rabobank traders

    Constitutional rights against self-incrimination of Anthony Allen and Anthony Conti were violated, said New York appeals court

April 2017

  • the Bank of England building

    Libor rigging: chancellor urged to call inquiry into Bank of England allegations

    Labour’s John McDonnell brands government silence over claim of collusion from within Threadneedle street as unacceptable
  • The Bank of England building in the City of London

    BBC to air recording that implicates Bank of England in Libor scandal

    Panorama says it has recording of 2008 call in which Barclays bankers discuss alleged pressure by Bank of England to lower rate
  • Jes Staley

    Business live
    Barclays boss admits errors over whistleblower and says 'I got too personally involved' - as it happened

    Bank says Jes Staley made honest mistake, but is reprimanded and will see compensation cut

January 2017

  • Tom Hayes arriving for his trial at Southwark crown court in July 2015.

    Ex-UBS and Citigroup trader jailed over Libor seeks review of case

    Tom Hayes, serving an 11-year sentence, claims he felt under pressure to admit guilt in order to avoid being extradited to US
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