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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Simon English

The City Libor traders are not criminals, they never were

You don’t have to like City traders (hardly anyone does) to think that today’s Libor verdict overturning criminal convictions is just.

Until Libor, the rate at which banks borrow from each other, became central to the financial crisis it was a niche instrument even in the Square Mile.

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