Whether it’s the side of the road we drive on, our preferred system of measurement or how we define “football,” America always seems to distinguish itself from Britain. Despite this, American lenders ...
A number of commentators have wondered why the rigging of LIBOR—the most widely used interest-rate in the world—hasn’t caused the uproar in this country that it’s provoked in Britain. The easy answer ...
Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Timothy Li is a consultant, accountant, and finance manager with an MBA from USC and over 15 ...
WASHINGTON — Breaking up is hard to do. Breaking up with an interest rate that is baked into millions of contracts worth trillions of dollars is even harder, but 2022 was the year the financial system ...
LIBOR set interest rates for trillions of dollars in loans for over 30 years. Banks manipulated the rate because it relied on estimates rather than real transactions. A new system called SOFR replaced ...
This summer marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, designed to address flaws and abuses that led to the 2008-09 financial crisis.
LONDON (Reuters) - On June 30, British bank NatWest sent out an arcane-sounding press release - bus operator National Express had become the first company to take out a loan based on Sonia, a ...