{"id":2168,"date":"2018-03-31T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T21:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2022-03-22T16:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:00:22","slug":"hsbc-settles-libor-rigging-lawsuit-for-100m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/hsbc-settles-libor-rigging-lawsuit-for-100m\/","title":{"rendered":"HSBC Settles Libor Rigging Lawsuit for $100M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTo settle a private securities lawsuit in the US alleging Libor manipulation, HSBC Holdings Plc. (HSBC) has agreed to pay $100M. The bank is accused of conspiring to rig the London interbank offered rated (Libor) benchmark. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are a number \u201cover-the-counter\u201d investors, including Yale University and the Maryland city of Baltimore, that dealt directly with banks belonging to the panel tasked with determining the key benchmark interest rate. Now, a court will have to approve the preliminary settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiffs sued 16 banks for alleged Libor rigging in 2011. According to their case, HSBC and other banks conspired together to submit artificially low borrowing costs so that they could appear more financially robust and increase earnings. These lower borrowing costs led to a lower Libor, which had an adverse effect on institutions and persons that invested in pension funds, money market funds, mutual funds, the bond market, a number of derivative products, and bank loan funds.<\/p>\n<p>Libor is the benchmark used to establish rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars of transactions, including those involving credit cards, student loans, and mortgages. It also allows the banks to figure out what it would cost them to borrow from one another.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/hsbc-settles-libor-rigging-lawsuit-for-100m\/#more-2168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To settle a private securities lawsuit in the US alleging Libor manipulation, HSBC Holdings Plc. (HSBC) has agreed to pay $100M. The bank is accused of conspiring to rig the London interbank offered rated (Libor) benchmark. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are a number \u201cover-the-counter\u201d investors, including Yale University and the Maryland city of Baltimore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3752,4027,3939],"tags":[2817,3021],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-firms","category-libor-scandal","category-life-settlements","tag-hsbc","tag-private-securities-lawsuit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>HSBC Settles Libor Rigging Lawsuit for $100M | SSEK Law Firm Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To settle a private securities lawsuit in the US alleging Libor manipulation, HSBC Holdings Plc. 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