In the context of the recent financial meltdown, the financial industry has frequently been accused of being indifferent to the irregular practices of its members or even to be criminogenic. But how do actors of the financial industry respond to such accusations and defend themselves? How do they justify their actions when facing legal charges as well as public blame? This article elucidates these questions through a rare ethnographic case: the first criminal trial of a trader involved in the manipulation of Libor, which took place in London in 2015. Tied to at least $300 trillion contracts, Libor is a benchmark that plays a key role in the financial industry. The paper offers a sociological framework to capture the justifications of financ...
There has been a transformation in the number and the scope of criminal laws relating to forms of ma...
Finance crime, that is, white-collar crime that occurs in the markets for financial goods and servic...
Brokers perform a key role in many financial markets. They introduce buyers to sellers, perform a us...
In the context of the recent financial meltdown, the financial industry has frequently been accused ...
This article examines public debates on the legitimacy of banking profits in the 2008 credit crunch....
Analysing individual acts committed by financial criminals requires not only addressing the collecti...
The aim of this paper is to use behavioral finance to explain the factors that brought Barclays Plc....
Since 2008, the global economic downturn has significantly in-creased operating pressures on major c...
This, the second article in a series, considers whether extending the "failure to prevent" (FTP) mod...
The author argues that undesirable behaviour in the financial markets has not been countered by appr...
This article examines the trial of former Goldman Sachs employee Fabrice Tourre, who was held liable...
In late June 2012, Barclays entered into a $453 million settlement with UK and U.S. regulators due t...
Given the inadequacies in our present state of knowledge of banking regulation, we develop a theoret...
Libor is a financial benchmark – a daily published number incorporated into financial contracts of a...
The BP oil spill and financial crisis share in common more than just profound tragedy and massive cl...
There has been a transformation in the number and the scope of criminal laws relating to forms of ma...
Finance crime, that is, white-collar crime that occurs in the markets for financial goods and servic...
Brokers perform a key role in many financial markets. They introduce buyers to sellers, perform a us...
In the context of the recent financial meltdown, the financial industry has frequently been accused ...
This article examines public debates on the legitimacy of banking profits in the 2008 credit crunch....
Analysing individual acts committed by financial criminals requires not only addressing the collecti...
The aim of this paper is to use behavioral finance to explain the factors that brought Barclays Plc....
Since 2008, the global economic downturn has significantly in-creased operating pressures on major c...
This, the second article in a series, considers whether extending the "failure to prevent" (FTP) mod...
The author argues that undesirable behaviour in the financial markets has not been countered by appr...
This article examines the trial of former Goldman Sachs employee Fabrice Tourre, who was held liable...
In late June 2012, Barclays entered into a $453 million settlement with UK and U.S. regulators due t...
Given the inadequacies in our present state of knowledge of banking regulation, we develop a theoret...
Libor is a financial benchmark – a daily published number incorporated into financial contracts of a...
The BP oil spill and financial crisis share in common more than just profound tragedy and massive cl...
There has been a transformation in the number and the scope of criminal laws relating to forms of ma...
Finance crime, that is, white-collar crime that occurs in the markets for financial goods and servic...
Brokers perform a key role in many financial markets. They introduce buyers to sellers, perform a us...