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Questions covered in the Solution:
- Who is hurt and who benefits from the manipulation of LIBOR?
- Who was most responsible for the manipulation of LIBOR?
- As a leader, how should you respond when you know that your competitors
are cheating? How should you respond when you think regulators are asking
you to cheat? - What is your assessment of the efforts to fix LIBOR? What, if anything,
would you do differently? - Compare and contrast the LIBOR scandal and the subprime mortgage
meltdown.
Sample of Solution:
- Who is hurt and who benefits from the manipulation of LIBOR?
LIBOR is defined as the London Interbank Offering Rate, which provides the base for the banks to determine a rate at which they can borrow funds from the other banks all over the globe. The more formal definition of LIBOR can be
“The rate at which an individual Contributor Panel bank could borrow funds were it to do so by asking for and then accepting inter-bank offers in reasonable market size, just prior to 11:00 [a.m.] London time.”
As per the investigations, it was revealed that the manipulation of LIBOR was more linked to the interests of derivative traders of Barclays, who requested the money market desk of Barclays to submit manipulated rates.
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- Who was most responsible for the manipulation of LIBOR?
LIBOR is considered as the standardized rate to conduct financial transactions all over the globe in a particular currency. Hence, LIBOR is calculated by a rigorous process which includes the submissions through different potential participating entities, like 16 Banks for US Dollar LIBOR. Since Barclays also contribute in the calculation of LIBOR, hence its derivative traders were able to manipulate it.
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