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- 10:53, 10 April 2024 LIBOR rigging part 2 (hist | edit) [27,372 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|disaster|{{image|dramatic gopher at court|jpg}}}}''This is part II of an article about LIBOR rigging. The first part is here.'' Okay, so a picture is emerging. During the 1980s the “interest rate” transformed from being the intractable time cost of borrowing money — for lenders, a secondary risk to the repayment of principal — to a tradable asset class of its own, thanks to the emergence of interest rate swaps. This is a profound conce...")
- 15:24, 9 April 2024 Rumpelheimer v Haddock (hist | edit) [10,900 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|casenote|}}RUMPELHEIMER v HADDOCK<br> “Port to Port” <br>This case, involving some difficult points of Marine and Traffic Law, was brought to a conclusion to-day. The President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division ( who had the assistance of an assessor) giving judgment. This action was originally instituted in the King’s Bench, but, Mr Justice Juice holding that the issues disclosed pertained to the Law of Admiralty, although the ground of the clai...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 08:58, 9 April 2024 Just so story (hist | edit) [569 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|work|}}{{d|Just so story|/ʤəst səʊ ˈstɔːri/|n|}}An unfalsifiable narrative explanation for a cultural practice, trait, or behaviour. A way of getting the the crux of things without getting weighed down by details. A favourite rhetorical device in these pages. Especially handy where JC doesn’t know what he’s talking about.")
- 13:08, 8 April 2024 Interest rate swap (hist | edit) [294 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{freeessay|isda|interest rate swap|{{image|bazooka gopher|jpg|''I told you he was angry'' {{vsr|2008}}}}}}The most basic type of swap. Therefore, the safest, most harmless, and least likely to be involved in infamy. Right? {{sa}} *Interest rate swap mis-selling scandal *LIBOR rigging") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 21:57, 7 April 2024 LIBOR lowballing (hist | edit) [1,152 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The LIBOR rigging scandal — wherein many traders were prosecuted for manipulating the LIBOR rate to their trading advantage, only really came about as a result of the LIBOR lowballing scandal — a different scandal — where Banks deliberately understated the value of LIBOR that they could borrow at in the market. Whereas — arguably — the LIBOR rigging was at least within the literal meaning of the LIBOR rules, if not their spirit, in that the rates b...")
- 17:11, 7 April 2024 Embarrassing emails (hist | edit) [723 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|disaster|}}There are many blast signatures of a calumny but few are more distinctive than the quality of communications between those who wind up being implicated in them. {{sa}} *United States v Connolly and Black *Hayes and Palombo v R") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
- 17:40, 6 April 2024 Axe (hist | edit) [514 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{g}}{{d|Axe|/æks/|n}}1. ''Rock ’n’ roll'': An electric guitar. Ideally, a transition ’59 Strat with a slab board and single ply pick guard. 2. ''Financial trading'': The position a trader wants to be in, but isn’t. Where she aspires to go. A longing. A need. A ''desire''. If she is long huge slabs of structured mezzanine credit and it is March 2007, she is dramatically axed to ''sell'' it. Fast.")
- 12:25, 6 April 2024 If you like sausages, don’t work in a smallgoods factory (hist | edit) [332 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|maxim|}}When JC was little he was sent to Australia to work in a Bacon, Ham and Smallgoods factory near a prison in a settlement called Wacol on the outskirts of Brisbane. There he learned many things — not least of which was that if you like sausages, you should not work in such a place. Also, what a “long weight” is.")
- 12:18, 6 April 2024 Edge (hist | edit) [361 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{g}}{{d|Edge||n}}A distinctive advantage that sets a trader apart and allows them to accumulate more profits than losses. In a perfect market there is no edge. But the world isn’t perfect. It is quite important to check that your edge does not arise on account of illegal information.")
- 12:43, 3 April 2024 Cutlet (hist | edit) [6,562 bytes] Amwelladmin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "{{a|fifi|}} ===Act I=== Late at night, SMEs in the compliance department are met by Squerrell, a good friend of Inspector Cutlet. They describe an email they have seen that seems to be from the recently-departed GC, David Bundie. At that moment, a new chat appears, and the guards and Squerrell decide to tell Cutlet. It’s impossible: he has no access to the system. It’s 3FA. Bartholomew Gould has recently become Co-head of legal with Chip Fryer|Geneviev...")