LIBOR pains

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LIBOR pains

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Oct 8, 2021

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For decades, banks used one rate to help set all other rates: LIBOR. After it came out that it'd been rigged, regulators said: no more. Now it's a race — and a road trip — to find an alternative. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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Oct 8, 2021

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