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		<title>FSA to Announce New Libor Plan; Ex-Credit Suisse CDO Chief to Fight Extradition: Roundup</title>

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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2012 07:52:02 -0400</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<p>The British Financial Services Authority is <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/british-authorities-to-announce-changes-in-libor-oversight/">wresting oversight</a> of the London interbank lending rate from the British Bankers Association as part of an overhaul of the process by which <strong>Libor </strong>is set. The British government will take a more hands on role, and submissions will be delayed for three months, perhaps diminishing the temptation to rig rates for the purpose of managing perception of a bank's health.</p>
<p>Right on time, <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>has an "analysis" that shows Libor doesn't actually reflect banks' borrowing costs.</p>
<p><strong>Kareem Serageldin</strong><strong>, </strong>the former head of Credit Suisse's CDO business <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/ex-credit-suisse-cdo-chief-serageldin-said-to-be-arrested.html">arrested in London</a> on Wednesday, said he will fight extradition to the U.S. When Mr. Serageldin was charges in February for running a scheme to falsify trading positions, he expressed surprise over the indictment, noting through lawyers that he was cooperating with attorneys. When he was nabbed outside the U.S. embassy in London this week, he said through a lawyer that he was working on a plea deal, and that his capture was the result of "miscommunication."<!--more-->Investors pulled capital from <strong>Spain</strong> for the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-spain-capital-idUSBRE88R0KJ20120928">13th straight month</a>.</p>
<p>Treasury Secretary <strong>Tim Geithner </strong>is wading into the void left when the Securities and Exchange Commission decided not to propose new rules for <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/geithner-urges-changes-to-strengthen-mutual-funds/">money market funds</a>.</p>
<p>The White House is circulating a draft executive order on cyber-security after a string of <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/cyber-attacks-on-u-s-banks-expose-computer-vulnerability.html">DDoS attacks</a> on the consumer banking websites of <strong>Bank of America</strong>, <strong>JPMorgan Chase</strong>, <strong>Wells Fargo</strong> and other financial firms.</p>
<p>Former Lehman Brothers CFO <strong>Erin Callan</strong> is flying her <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/after-lehman-callan-bids-new-york-farewell/">East Hampton coop</a>.</p>
<p>A forgery suit against Allen &amp; Co. CEO <strong>Herb Allen</strong>—who was being sued on claims that he had conspired to forge a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/after-lehman-callan-bids-new-york-farewell/">dying cousin's will</a>—has been dismissed.</p>
<p>True story? A British oil trader <a href="http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Broker-Sent-Oil-Prices-to-Eight-Month-High-in-a-Drunken-Stupor.html">got blotto,</a> bought $520 million in oil futures in the middle of the night, had no recollection of any of it. The <strong>Financial Services Authority</strong> suspended him for five years, commented dryly: “Mr Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk.”</p>
<p>Would you give money to a hedge fund called <strong>POOF</strong>? Would you be surprised to learn that said fund's manager just coughed up $6.8 million to <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hedgie_goes_poof_uR5dxVMnKhaBmUqIppSAPM">settle cherry-picking charges</a>—that he stuck clients with losing trades and moved profit-making trades to his wife's account?</p>
<p>“This is a great day for the art world and all those who seek order and justice in our society": Bond king <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gundlach-art-20120928,0,4163188.story">Jeffrey Gundlach's Mondrian</a> has been recovered.</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The British Financial Services Authority is <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/british-authorities-to-announce-changes-in-libor-oversight/">wresting oversight</a> of the London interbank lending rate from the British Bankers Association as part of an overhaul of the process by which <strong>Libor </strong>is set. The British government will take a more hands on role, and submissions will be delayed for three months, perhaps diminishing the temptation to rig rates for the purpose of managing perception of a bank's health.</p>
<p>Right on time, <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>has an "analysis" that shows Libor doesn't actually reflect banks' borrowing costs.</p>
<p><strong>Kareem Serageldin</strong><strong>, </strong>the former head of Credit Suisse's CDO business <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-26/ex-credit-suisse-cdo-chief-serageldin-said-to-be-arrested.html">arrested in London</a> on Wednesday, said he will fight extradition to the U.S. When Mr. Serageldin was charges in February for running a scheme to falsify trading positions, he expressed surprise over the indictment, noting through lawyers that he was cooperating with attorneys. When he was nabbed outside the U.S. embassy in London this week, he said through a lawyer that he was working on a plea deal, and that his capture was the result of "miscommunication."<!--more-->Investors pulled capital from <strong>Spain</strong> for the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/28/us-spain-capital-idUSBRE88R0KJ20120928">13th straight month</a>.</p>
<p>Treasury Secretary <strong>Tim Geithner </strong>is wading into the void left when the Securities and Exchange Commission decided not to propose new rules for <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/geithner-urges-changes-to-strengthen-mutual-funds/">money market funds</a>.</p>
<p>The White House is circulating a draft executive order on cyber-security after a string of <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-28/cyber-attacks-on-u-s-banks-expose-computer-vulnerability.html">DDoS attacks</a> on the consumer banking websites of <strong>Bank of America</strong>, <strong>JPMorgan Chase</strong>, <strong>Wells Fargo</strong> and other financial firms.</p>
<p>Former Lehman Brothers CFO <strong>Erin Callan</strong> is flying her <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/after-lehman-callan-bids-new-york-farewell/">East Hampton coop</a>.</p>
<p>A forgery suit against Allen &amp; Co. CEO <strong>Herb Allen</strong>—who was being sued on claims that he had conspired to forge a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/09/27/after-lehman-callan-bids-new-york-farewell/">dying cousin's will</a>—has been dismissed.</p>
<p>True story? A British oil trader <a href="http://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Broker-Sent-Oil-Prices-to-Eight-Month-High-in-a-Drunken-Stupor.html">got blotto,</a> bought $520 million in oil futures in the middle of the night, had no recollection of any of it. The <strong>Financial Services Authority</strong> suspended him for five years, commented dryly: “Mr Perkins poses an extreme risk to the market when drunk.”</p>
<p>Would you give money to a hedge fund called <strong>POOF</strong>? Would you be surprised to learn that said fund's manager just coughed up $6.8 million to <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hedgie_goes_poof_uR5dxVMnKhaBmUqIppSAPM">settle cherry-picking charges</a>—that he stuck clients with losing trades and moved profit-making trades to his wife's account?</p>
<p>“This is a great day for the art world and all those who seek order and justice in our society": Bond king <a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gundlach-art-20120928,0,4163188.story">Jeffrey Gundlach's Mondrian</a> has been recovered.</p>
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		<title>Is There No Place Safe? Ex-Credit Suisse Banker Arrested in London</title>

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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:47:52 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Patrick Clark</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/09/is-there-no-place-safe-ex-credit-suisse-banker-arrested-in-london/cs/" rel="attachment wp-att-266042"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-266042" title="CS" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/cs.jpg" alt="" width="181" height="136" /></a>A former Credit Suisse banker was <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443328404578020523312003216.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">arrested in London today</a>, according to <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> nearly six months after being <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443328404578020523312003216.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">indicted</a> by U.S. prosecutors for allegedly faking data to boost end-of-year bonuses.</p>
<p>In February, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged Kareem Serageldin, a former global head of the Swiss bank's collateralized debt obligation business, with masterminding a scheme to mismark positions in asset-backed securities, helping Mr. Serageldin and his traders meet targets linked to annual bonuses. <!--more--></p>
<p>Mr. Sergaldin expressed surprise at the time of the indictment, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/ex-credit-suisse-cdo-head-charged-in-bonus-scam-says-he-helped-prosecutors.html">noting through a lawyer</a> that he'd been cooperating with the law. Nonetheless, prosecutors requested his presence in New York, threatening extradition if he refused. That now seems likely, according to <em>The Journal:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Serageldin, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen, is expected to appear in court in the U.K. on Thursday and the U.S. will likely to seek his return to the U.S. to face charges of criminal conspiracy, filing false books and records, and wire fraud. Sean Casey, a lawyer for Mr. Serageldin, declined comment Wednesday.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This news after former UBS executive and Belgian citizen Peter Ghavami was arrested at Kennedy Airport in 2010 on charges he helped rig bids on municipals bonds—<em>and </em>after Dealbook cited Mr. Ghavami's case to warn Libor manipulators in the <a href="http://observer.com/2012/09/service-journalism-for-libor-manipulators/">employ of foreign banks</a> to consider keeping out of the country—leaves us to wonder: Is there no place safe?</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://observer.com/2012/09/is-there-no-place-safe-ex-credit-suisse-banker-arrested-in-london/cs/" rel="attachment wp-att-266042"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-266042" title="CS" src="http://nyoobserver.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/cs.jpg" alt="" width="181" height="136" /></a>A former Credit Suisse banker was <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443328404578020523312003216.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">arrested in London today</a>, according to <em>The Wall Street Journal</em> nearly six months after being <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443328404578020523312003216.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">indicted</a> by U.S. prosecutors for allegedly faking data to boost end-of-year bonuses.</p>
<p>In February, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara charged Kareem Serageldin, a former global head of the Swiss bank's collateralized debt obligation business, with masterminding a scheme to mismark positions in asset-backed securities, helping Mr. Serageldin and his traders meet targets linked to annual bonuses. <!--more--></p>
<p>Mr. Sergaldin expressed surprise at the time of the indictment, <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-02/ex-credit-suisse-cdo-head-charged-in-bonus-scam-says-he-helped-prosecutors.html">noting through a lawyer</a> that he'd been cooperating with the law. Nonetheless, prosecutors requested his presence in New York, threatening extradition if he refused. That now seems likely, according to <em>The Journal:</em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Serageldin, a dual U.S.-U.K. citizen, is expected to appear in court in the U.K. on Thursday and the U.S. will likely to seek his return to the U.S. to face charges of criminal conspiracy, filing false books and records, and wire fraud. Sean Casey, a lawyer for Mr. Serageldin, declined comment Wednesday.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>This news after former UBS executive and Belgian citizen Peter Ghavami was arrested at Kennedy Airport in 2010 on charges he helped rig bids on municipals bonds—<em>and </em>after Dealbook cited Mr. Ghavami's case to warn Libor manipulators in the <a href="http://observer.com/2012/09/service-journalism-for-libor-manipulators/">employ of foreign banks</a> to consider keeping out of the country—leaves us to wonder: Is there no place safe?</p>
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