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Rigged Benchmarks

FILE DATE 2012
CROSS-REFS 02
STATUS NEVER CLOSED
SUMMARY
LIBOR, gold fixes, forex — convicted, fined, forgotten. The theories were ledgers.
FULL DOSSIER
The LIBOR scandal: banks systematically misreported the benchmark rate underpinning ~$300 trillion in contracts — proven by settlements (Barclays 2012, UBS, Deutsche, RBS; $9 billion+ total), criminal convictions (Hayes), and regulators' released trader chats ('done... for you big boy'). Parallel cases: FX fixing (2015 guilty pleas by five banks), gold fix manipulation settlements. The node is the market-manipulation thread's citation stack: the conspiracy that was tried, convicted, and priced — the archive's standing answer to 'markets can't be rigged.'
SOURCES ON RECORD
01Barclays settlement (CFTC/FSA 2012)
02Hayes conviction (2015)
03FX guilty pleas (May 2015)
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