North America
The Bank Bill Swap Rate: Could the LIBOR Scandal Happen in Australia?
The Price of Reputation: Lessons from the Barclays LIBOR Scandal
Further Fallout from Barclays Rate-Fixing Scandal Anticipated
British and US regulators fined Barclays $450 million for submitting false returns to the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate. It is clear that the bank did not act alone, the other banks in the circle that decides on the LIBOR are now under the microscope.
Originally Published:
Monday, July 2, 2012
Limits of Judicial Activism I: The Spillover Effect of the US Supreme Court decision
The Oxford Project: Arresting the Downward Spiral by Harnessing the Restraining Power of Whistle-Blowing I
Opening the Kimono: The Risk of JP Morgan's Exposure
The Oxford Project: A Political Scientist Responds
US Attitudes to White Collar Crime
Professor Stuart Green, of Rutgers Law School discusses a recent empirical survey he has undertaken of US moral attitudes to white collar crime and insider trading and appropriate ways to frame regulation in this light of these attitudes.
Originally Published:
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Trench Warfare Over Dodd-Frank Implementation
In a wide-ranging interview covering the provisions on conflict minerals and the Volcker rule on limiting proprietary trading, Professor Eric Talley of the University of California at Berkeley discusses the key obstacles involved in implementing Dodd-Frank.
Originally Published:
Thursday, April 19, 2012