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ASIC tipped to launch rate-rigging case against major bank
Recent reports have alleged that the corporate watchdog will soon launch an investigation into interest rate-rigging by the major banks.
In an opinion piece published in the Australian Financial Review this week, journalist Adele Ferguson said that it is understood that ASIC is on the verge of launching legal action against ANZ amid a massive industry-wide investigation into manipulation of the bank bill swap rate (BBSW).
“The regulator is believed to have drafted statements of claim and will file a civil action against ANZ in relation to breaches of the law relating to BBSW between 2007 and 2013,” according to the AFR column.
“An announcement is expected to be made in the next few weeks,” it said.
The comments come after Labor Senator Sam Dastyari said late last year that ASIC’s findings will be “explosive” for Australia’s major lenders.
Speaking in Sydney on 7 December, Mr Dastyari – who is chair of the Senate Economics References Committee – said the "stuff that's about to come out" about the BBSW is "very, very big".
The BBSW is the Australian equivalent of LIBOR (the London Interbank Overnight Rate) in the UK and determines the rate at which banks are willing to make short-term loans to each other.
Deutsche Bank was fined US$2.5 billion in June last year by a number of US regulators after the UK Financial Conduct Authority found its employees had manipulated LIBOR and the European equivalent, EURIBOR.
Mr Dastyari said ASIC now has 20 per cent of its resources focused on the behaviour of the Australian banks in "the collusion that went on regarding the BBSW".
Central to the investigation are the online chat room records of bank traders, said Mr Dastyari.
"[ASIC] has seven years of chat room records of people. Three of the four big banks are being investigated.
"If what’s in the chat rooms is what’s alleged to be in the chat rooms, [it will be] explosive when they get to the bottom of it," Mr Dastyari said.
It is alleged that traders from different banks spoke about the figures they would be presenting the next day in order to trade on that information, he added.
Mr Dastyari noted that ANZ has already fired "seven or eight" employees as a result of the ongoing ASIC investigation. ANZ announced it had dismissed an employee for "inappropriate electronic communication" on 31 July 2015.
"The other banks have all conducted internal investigations. That’s going to be very big," Mr Dastyari said.
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和我们有撒关系?
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废掉了银行的利率操纵，利率就会向着不利银行的方向运动，银行自身的利润率就会降低，最终会反映到客户的贷款利率。
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这样公平。资源自然最优配置
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Fingers crossed
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