On 26 October 2012, the CLMR and Allens Linklaters hosted a workshop examining compliance, risk management and accountability in the aftermath of Libor.

The London Inter Bank Offered Rate is a central benchmark for global financial markets. Known as Libor, the rate is an average of the interests banks charge to loan amongst themselves. It is a key to a wide range of contracts worth over 350 trillion US dollars.

Justin O'Brien, a professor and director of the Centre for Law, Markets & Regulation at the University of New South Wales, talks to Bloomberg about the Barclays Libor-rate fixing scandal and the Congressional probe into HSBC Holdings Plc.

Professor Stuart Green, of Rutgers Law School discusses a recent empirical survey he has undertaken of US moral attitudes to white collar crime and insider trading and appropriate ways to frame regulation in this light of these attitudes.