In a recent alert, we highlighted the United Kingdom (UK) benchmark manipulation cases of Tom Hayes and Carlo Palombo from 2015 and 2019, respectively. Hayes was the first banker to be jailed in the LIBOR scandal....more
Fair Isaac Corp., creator of the “widely used FICO credit score,” unveiled plans to “roll out a new scoring system in early 2019 that factors in how consumers manage the cash in their checking, savings and money-market...more
The Court of Appeal has overturned a decision of the High Court that an Italian local authority could rely on local mandatory laws to invalidate an interest rate swap entered into with an Italian bank. In its ruling the Court...more