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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Top US regulator wants Libor, Euribor scrapped

UPDATE 1-Top US regulator wants Libor, Euribor scrapped
| Reuters



The changes should also include benchmarks linked to gold, oil and other commodities, said Gary Gensler, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said.
Regulators from across the world are fleshing out changes to how two key interest rate benchmarks in particular, the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) and its continental European counterpart Euribor, are compiled.
They are used to help price products from home loans to credit cards worth over $300 trillion but three banks have been fined for rigging the rates.

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