{"id":6193,"date":"2017-08-31T16:42:05","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T21:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2021-09-20T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T20:43:13","slug":"fdics-libor-rigging-lawsuit-deutsche-bank-ubs-royal-bank-scotland-others-uk-accuse-banks-lowballing-benchmark-interest-rate-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/fdics-libor-rigging-lawsuit-deutsche-bank-ubs-royal-bank-scotland-others-uk-accuse-banks-lowballing-benchmark-interest-rate-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"FDIC\u2019s Libor Rigging Lawsuit Against Deutsche Bank, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Others in the UK Accuses Defendant Banks of Lowballing Benchmark Interest Rate Figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIn the UK, the US government is suing several banks over Libor rigging allegations in High Court. The defendants in the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) manipulation lawsuit include Deutsche Bank (DB), Barclays (BARC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds Banking Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/ubs-painewebber-background-information.html\">UBS (UBS)<\/a>, Rabobank (RABO), and several other banks, in addition to the British Bankers Association.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation\u2019s claim, the banks would engage in lowballing by turning in estimates that were artificially low when participating in the daily process to set the Libor rate. The US agency said that it is suing for 39 US banks, which were once collectively valued at over $400M, that failed after they depended on the US dollar denominated-Libor variant for derivative and other transactions. FDIC contends that the inaccurate figures submitted by the European banks caused the US banks to sustain massive losses.  <\/p>\n<p>It believes that if the Libor rate had been set honestly, the benchmark&#8217;s rate would would have been higher and these banks would have achieved higher prices and larger returns on different mortgages, loans, options, swaps, and other Libor-tied agreements.  Instead, the plaintiffs allegedly colluded together to keep borrowing rates down to make it appear as if the banks were in more robust financial health than what was actual. The FDIC argued that the joint efforts of the banks and the British Bankers Association resulted in the \u201csustained and material suppression of Libor\u201d from August 2007 through at least 2009.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/fdics-libor-rigging-lawsuit-deutsche-bank-ubs-royal-bank-scotland-others-uk-accuse-banks-lowballing-benchmark-interest-rate-figures\/#more-6193\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the UK, the US government is suing several banks over Libor rigging allegations in High Court. The defendants in the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) manipulation lawsuit include Deutsche Bank (DB), Barclays (BARC), Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), Lloyds Banking Group, UBS (UBS), Rabobank (RABO), and several other banks, in addition to the British [&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":[3818,3752,4027,4036,3755],"tags":[2756,2593,2885,2851,2723],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deutsche-bank","category-financial-firms","category-libor-scandal","category-royal-bank-of-scotland","category-ubs","tag-barclays","tag-fdic","tag-lloyds-banking-group","tag-rabobank","tag-societe-generale"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FDIC\u2019s Libor Rigging Lawsuit Against Deutsche Bank, UBS, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Others in the UK Accuses Defendant Banks of Lowballing Benchmark Interest Rate Figures &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; August 31, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the UK, the US government is suing several banks over Libor rigging allegations in High Court. 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