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Financial Services Bill

Proceeding contribution from Lord Sassoon (Conservative) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 20 November 2012. It occurred during Debate on bills on Financial Services Bill.

My Lords, the problem that we are trying to deal with is that it has been revealed this summer that benchmarks are open to the sorts of

abuse that need to be dealt with. We are putting in place a framework that enables abuse or potential abuse of benchmarks to be dealt with. There was never any intention to put in LIBOR. I expended about 1,900 words explaining why we were doing this and I probably mentioned LIBOR a dozen times. I hope that the noble Lord is now clearer. I see that he is; I am grateful. That probably deals with the main definitional and scope questions.

5.15 pm

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
740 cc1748-9 
Session
2012-13
Chamber / Committee
House of Lords chamber
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