Libor Scandal: New York Fed Silent On Barclays' Admission Of Rigging Benchmark Interest Rate
"Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was then head of the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, did not communicate in key meetings
with top regulators that British bank Barclays had admitted to Fed
staffers that it was manipulating Libor, the Washington Post said,
citing people familiar with the matter.
Documents released by the New York Federal Reserve Bank this month
showed regulators in the United States and England had some knowledge
that bankers were submitting misleading Libor bids during the 2008
financial crisis to make their financial institutions appear stronger
than they were.
The reliability of the London interbank offered rate, which underpins
transactions worth trillions of dollars, has been rattled by
revelations that bankers manipulated it to profit on trades and hide
their own borrowing costs during the crisis.
Among other details, the Fed documents included the transcript of an
April 2008 telephone call between a Barclays trader in New York and Fed
official Fabiola Ravazzolo, in which the unidentified trader said: "So,
we know that we're not posting um, an honest Libor."
Geithner F-Bombs - Business Insider
'I Have Been The Most F------ Transparent Secretary Of The Treasury In This Country's Entire F------ History'
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