Secret Libor Committee Clings to Anonymity Following Scandal [1]
Bloomberg
By Liam Vaughan - Aug 21, 2012
Martin Wheatley, managing director of the Financial Services Authority. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg)
Every two months, representatives from the world’s largest banks meet at an undisclosed location to review the London interbank offered rate [2].
Who sits on the British Bankers’ Association’s Foreign Exchange and Money Markets Committee [3], the body that governs the benchmark for more than $300 trillion of securities worldwide, is a secret. No minutes are published. The BBA won’t identify any members, saying it wants to protect them from being lobbied, and declined to make the chairman available for interview.
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- Freedom Project [5]