The BBA Tries To Rewrite History

Zero Hedge have revealed that the hopeless, hapless and despised British Bankers' Association (BBA) has attempted to rewrite history, and is trying to pretend that it had no regulatory role wrt Libor.

Specifically, as per Zero Hedge, here is an extract of the BBA's current governance documentation:

"There is a named individual at each bank responsible for submitting the daily bbalibor rates to Thomson Reuters and this will be the person responsible for the bank's cash - usually their title is 'treasurer' or similar. There is written guidance on what information that person should take into account when calculating that day's rates for his or her bank. As all contributor banks are regulated, they are responsible to their regulators, rather than BBA LIBOR Ltd. or the FX&MM Committee, for maintaining appropriate procedures for contributing, including the maintenance of internal chinese walls."

This is the "same" paragraph a few weeks ago:

"BBA LIBOR Ltd. receives the fixings and underlying contributor data at the same time as all other live data recipients and monitors all submissions into the fixing process. Any anomalous rates are queried with the submitting bank, and a log of these queries is kept and given to the FX&MM Committee on a periodic basis, who may choose at their discretion to follow up these queries in line with established governance and scrutiny procedures."

Now that the arrest warrants are being prepared, the BBA is doing everything it can to distance itself from Liborgate.

Too little too late!