This week’s Bloomberg Businessweek cover story is about Tom Hayes, a British trader convicted of manipulating Libor. The London Interbank Offered Rate is a global benchmark for the cost of borrowing.

For half a century the series of interest rates known collectively as the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, has helped determine the cost of all sorts of borrowing around the world. But over ...

Whether it’s the side of the road we drive on, our preferred system of measurement or how we define “football,” America always seems to distinguish itself from Britain. Despite this, American lenders ...

Following investigations into Barclays’ manipulation of London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor), CFR’s Sebastian Mallaby highlights three implications from the unfolding scandal: Conflicts of Interest ...

Financial institutions and other industries globally are working to replace the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR). By the end of 2021, LIBOR is expected to be phased out, which necessitates ...

LONDON (Reuters) - On June 30, British bank NatWest sent out an arcane-sounding press release - bus operator National Express had become the first company to take out a loan based on Sonia, a ...

WASHINGTON — Breaking up is hard to do. Breaking up with an interest rate that is baked into millions of contracts worth trillions of dollars is even harder, but 2022 was the year the financial system ...

Many of us were introduced to the term LIBOR for the first time this week, when it was revealed that some banks might have been manipulating the dull but vital interest rates to gain an edge in the ...

This summer marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, designed to address flaws and abuses that led to the 2008-09 financial crisis.

LIBOR set interest rates for trillions of dollars in loans for over 30 years. Banks manipulated the rate because it relied on estimates rather than real transactions. A new system called SOFR replaced ...

Discover the BGM Model's role in pricing interest rate derivatives using LIBOR rates. Learn its applications, advantages, and insights for swaptions and caplets.

Few outside the City of London knew anything about Libor before it hit the news in 2012, when Barclays was given a huge fine and its chief executive Bob Diamond resigned. But Libor - or the London ...