a leading operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, announces that ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA) will publish data relating to a three-month testing period during which all 20 LIBOR
panel banks were required to make parallel LIBOR submissions.
London: The FCA said that all 20 of the
panel banks have agreed to support the LIBOR benchmark ensuring the sustainability of the rate until 2021.
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has said that all 20
panel banks have agreed to support the London interbank offered rate (Libor) until it is phased out in 2021.
Moreover,
panel banks feel understandable discomfort about providing submissions based on judgments with so little borrowing activity against which to validate those judgments.
Under the FCA's plan, "the benchmark would no longer be sustained through the mechanism of the FCA persuading or obliging
panel banks to stay," he said, meaning Libor's survival "could not and would not be guaranteed.
He added: "While we have given our full support to encouraging
panel banks to continue to contribute and maintaining Libor over recent years, we do not think markets can rely on Libor continuing to be available indefinitely.
The case centres on the allegation he was seeking to rig the submissions by the
panel banks, used to calculate that rate.
The British broker RP Martin was fined 247,000 for facilitating one of the infringements by using its contacts with a number of JPY Libor
panel banks that did not participate in the infringement, with the aim of influencing their JPY Libor submissions.
Traders also colluded with "individuals at other Libor
panel banks and interdealer firms to influence Libor submission, the FCA said.
The watchdogs added that other attempts of manipulation included requesting only certain
Panel Banks to make specific Japanese Yen Libor submissions.
Following the withdrawal of Barclays Bank from the Eibor fixing process, the National Bank of Fujairah was selected by the Eibor
panel banks to join the Eibor panel, starting October 8 2012," said a statement from the regulator.
8) Ironically, only a few months earlier in 2008, some expressed concern that LIBOR was not high enough because LIBOR
panel banks had an incentive not to report their true estimated borrowing costs for fear of suggesting their own financial weakness.
