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The Libor Scandal: Another Example of Neutralised and Routinised Deviance in the Financial Services Sector?

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

What have been some of the key regulatory reactions thus far to the Libor scandal in the UK and elsewhere?

Financial Services Authority Speech: Initiative to Outlaw Flawed Sales Bonuses that Encourage Mis-selling

Martin Wheatley, managing director of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and chief executive officer designate of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), announced that he wanted to see an end to mis-selling created by sales incentives.

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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

An Open Letter to Australian Banks

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Saturday, September 1, 2012

The Libor scandal shows this industry abroad has lost its morals. Will we go the same way?

Recent Cases Highlight Concerns for Directors in Conducting Business in High Risk Markets

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Australian companies need to pay greater attention to managing the risks of corruption as regulatory enforcement attention increases in this area.

Standard Chartered Bank and the Ethics of Corporate Lawyers

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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Questions are finally being asked about the role of lawyers who act for banks.

Action and Consequence: The Key to Effective Governance, Risk and Compliance

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Monday, July 30, 2012

The LIBOR-rigging and HSBC money laundering and terrorism financing scandals have called into question the functionality of governance, risk and compliance frameworks.

LIBOR Scandal Spreading

The London Inter Bank Offered Rate is a central benchmark for global financial markets. Known as Libor, the rate is an average of the interests banks charge to loan amongst themselves. It is a key to a wide range of contracts worth over 350 trillion US dollars.

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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

HSBC and the Price of Technical Compliance: Is Cutting Regulatory Corners Potentially Worth $1 billion?

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

The US Department of Justice is expected to fine HSBC close to $1 billion for AML violations, however a financial wrist slap, no matter how large, is unlikely to affect behavioral change.

Fundamental Conflict in Banking Regulation

Justin O'Brien, a professor and director of the Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation at the University of New South Wales, talks to Bloomberg about the Barclays Libor-rate fixing scandal and the Congressional probe into HSBC Holdings Plc.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

US Senate Faults HSBC and Regulators in Money Laundering Report

The US Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations has released a 335 page report which states that HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels looking to get cash back into the US by Saudi Arabian banks that needed access to dollars despite their terrorist ties and by Iranians who wanted to circumv

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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