individuals that benefitted from the manipulation of LIBOR. The Barclays derivatives traders‚ Money Market Desk‚ Bob Diamond and senior management and other banks all had some sort of gain from the LIBOR scandal.Let’s start with the people that had the most monetary gain - the Barclays derivative traders. It is said that LIBOR has been manipulated since the early 90s. Since then‚ there has been trillions of money made by derivate traders as they influence LIBOR. The traders communicated with the Money Market
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Financial Manager To Sir David Walker‚ Chairman of Barclays Plc. Date 24th February 2013 Subject Implication of The Recent Libor-Fixing Scandal for Barclays Bank 1. Executive Summary * The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) is the average interest rate charged to banks for lending funds in the interbank market (Investopedia n.d.). * The UK Treasury reported that Libor is responsible for an estimated $300 trillion worth of financial transaction (BBC 2012). * Barclays’ traders submitted
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THE SCANDAL… “This dwarfs by orders of magnitude any financial scam in the history of markets “ -Andrew LO‚ Professor of Finance‚ MIT WHAT IS LIBOR ? Libor is the benchmark interest rate that affects how consumers and companies borrow money across the world. It the average interest rate calculated through the submission of interest rates by major banks in London. It is controlled by British Bankers ’Association(BBA) WHAT IS AFFECTED BY THE RATE ? Derivatives •Libor underpins
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HOW THE LIBOR SCANDAL AFFECTED THE PEOPLE. The libor scandal affected a lot of people in the country but the question is did it break any law that was set? It may or may not have affected any supreme law. Some argue that the banks came together to decide the cost of borrowing that they would send to be calculated as the libor. Others also argue that the banks knew the times that the libor was to be released and hence send their rates just in time to alter the libor. This‚ they believe goes against
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of the Enron Scandal The main problem of the Enron scandal was that they committed business fraud. This is what the root problem of the company was. The sad thing about the Enron scandal was that approximately 22‚000 men and women lost their jobs. Not only did it affect the people who worked for the company but the problem was that it also affected other accounting firms that worked directly with Enron‚ for example the company Arthur Anderson went under because of the Enron scandal and this also
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The Watergate Scandal Victoria Daniele Constitutional History May 19‚ 2013 The Watergate Scandal involved a number of illegal activities that were designed to help President Richard Nixon win re-election. The scandal involved burglary‚ wiretapping‚ campaign financing violations‚ and the use of government agencies to harm political opponents. A major part of the scandal was also the cover-up of all these illegal actions. The Watergate Scandal got its name from the Watergate office complex
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Corporate Scandal I. Olympus Updated: April 20‚ 2012 Olympus Corporation‚ founded in 1919‚ is a manufacturer of digital cameras and electronic equipment. Based in Tokyo‚ the multibillion-dollar company has operations worldwide. In mid-October 2011‚ Olympus was rocked by scandal when its former chief executive and president‚ Michael C. Woodford‚ who is British‚ was suddenly fired. The company’s chairman‚ Tsuyoshi Kikukawa‚ blamed a culture clash‚ but Mr. Woodford‚ a 30-year Olympus employee‚
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The fallout that accompanied the accounting scandals of the early 2000’s had an immediate impact on corporate business and accounting practices which is still being felt today. The collapse of Enron and its accounting firm Arthur Andersen‚ as well as the subsequent collapses of Worldcom and others have left a permanent mark on how corporate businesses and accounting firms are perceived and how they are regulated. It has also altered the experiences of students who are pursuing‚ or are considering
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Abstract - The Enron scandal is one of the biggest financial scams ever to take place and its root’s lie in the desire of the senior members of Enron to earn as much for themselves as possible and were assisted in this greatly by the negligence shown by their auditor’s and consultants‚ Arthur Andersen. Most of the debts and tangible assets of Enron were on the balance sheet of partnerships that were run by high-ranking officials within the corporation and these partnerships were recorded as related
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The Watergate Scandal The Watergate Affair‚ is the worst political scandal in U.S. history. It led to the resignation of the president‚ Richard M. Nixon‚ after he became implicated in an attempt to cover up the scandal. "The Watergate Affair" refers to the break-in and electronic bugging in 1972‚ of the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate apartment‚ and office building complex in Washington D.C. The term was applied to several related scandals. More than thirty
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