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Prosecutors, regulators close to making Libor arrests

Barclays

U.S. prosecutors and European regulators are close to arresting individual traders and charging them with colluding to manipulate global benchmark interest rates, according to people familiar with a sweeping investigation into the rate-rigging scandal.

 

DealBook: Libor Scandal Shows Many Flaws in Rate-Setting

Libor

It is an open secret in the banking world: the interest rates for many mortgages and loans are based on a benchmark that is largely guesswork. The flaws in the rate-setting process, which is used to determine the pricing for trillions of dollars of financial products, have been exposed by the latest banking scandal. Regulators around the world are investigating whether big banks gamed the rates for their own benefit before and after the financial crisis.

 

Deutsche Bank to axe 1,000 investment banking jobs

Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest lender, is to cut 1,000 jobs in its investment banking division, the business daily Handelsblatt reported Thursday, quoting "well-informed financial sources".

 

Central bankers eyeing whether Libor needs scrapping

Libor

Central bankers and regulators will hold talks in September on whether the troubled global Libor interest rate can be reformed or whether it is so damaged that the benchmark of borrowing costs should be scrapped.

 

Consumer Watchdog Fines Capital One for Deceptive Credit Card Practices

Capital One

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau delivered its first enforcement action against the financial industry, fining Capital One for pressuring and misleading more than two million credit card customers.

 

Prosecute The Big Banks? ‘Nothing’s Off The Table,’ NY Attorney General Says

Eric Schneiderman

Americans can expect to see tangible results this fall from the task force President Obama created to investigate the financial crisis, New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman told TPM Thursday.

 

MF Global trustee threatens suit against Corzine

Jon Corzone

Former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine could face a lawsuit from the trustee trying to recover $1.6 billion in customer money from the collapse of the brokerage MF Global.

 

U.S. banking industry posts highest quarterly profit since 2007

Chase

The U.S. banking industry posted a $35.3-billion profit in the first quarter of the year, its best performance since 2007, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Thursday.

 

JPMorgan’s debacle, and its parallels to AIG

JP Morgan Chase

Last week, the once-future Treasury secretary and current JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon revealed a $2 billion loss. This previously undisclosed derivative trade should be a wake-up call for those claiming that finance has been “reined in” and no longer presents a threat to the global economy.

 

JPMorgan CEO: 'Dead wrong' about trading concerns

Jamie Dimon

The CEO of JPMorgan Chase, which disclosed a $2 billion loss last week, said he was "dead wrong" when he dismissed concerns about the bank's trading last month.

 

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