Archive for June 27th, 2012

27 June 2012

Barclays fined £290 million for trying to fix LIBOR

And CEO Bob Diamond gives up his bonus – takes some seriously bad news for that to happen – after regulators find that Barclays attempted to manipulate the London Interbank Offered Rate, one of the global benchmarks for interest rates.

Barclays statement here. FSA press release here and Final Notice here. US Department of Justice statement here. From the US Commodities Futures Trading Organisation press release:

27 June 2012

Everything that’s wrong with the Companies Act 2006

Here is a detailed, 27 page analysis of specific “problems and anomalies” contained in the Companies Act 2006, compiled by the Company Law Committee of the City of London Law Society and the Law Society Company Law Committee. (It also has, as an appendix, a letter discussing the issues raised by Farstad v Enviroco.)

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