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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

BBA agrees to bow out of Libor


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BBA agrees to bow out of Libor
The British Bankers' Association has agreed to drop its role in the setting of Libor, paving the way for government regulation of the scandal-riven interbank rates that serve as the benchmark for more than $350tn in contracts worldwide.

The trade body formally voted last week to relinquish its decades-long sponsorship of the London Interbank Offered Rates more than four years after questions were first raised about whether banks were lying in their submissions to the rate-setting process.
http://link.ft.com/r/OZMCDD/U1N5VQ/ZBHOFE/NJ2QPI/EKX9I4/4O/h?a1=2012&a2=9&a3=25

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