Wednesday, January 30, 2013

The US Justice Department's Libor prosecution of RBS is too little, too late

Most ambitious financial regulators know there is one rule to establishing their names: reel in a really, really big fish on Wall Street, and make them pay, either through convictions, penalties, or sheer humiliation.
The Royal Bank of Scotland is not this fish. Not only is RBS almost entirely unknown to the American populace, but its alleged crime – fixing inter-bank interest rates years ago – has failed to garner any outrage or surprise from consumers, no matter how appalling the offense.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/29/regulators-useconomy

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