{"id":53415,"date":"2016-07-11T08:28:50","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53415"},"modified":"2016-07-11T08:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:28:50","slug":"ex-barclays-traders-sentenced-to-up-to-six-and-a-half-years-for-libor-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2016\/ex-barclays-traders-sentenced-to-up-to-six-and-a-half-years-for-libor-rigging.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Barclays Traders Sentenced to up to Six-and-a-Half Years For Libor Rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Four former Barclays (BARC.L) bankers were sentenced to between 33 months and six-and-a-half years in jail by a London judge on Thursday for conspiring to rig global benchmark interest rates. Calcutta-born Jay Merchant, 45, the most senior of the men to face a jury in the case, was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in the latest London Libor trial. The New York-based former derivatives trader was convicted unanimously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-barclays-libor-trial-idUSKCN0ZN1G4\">to read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Four former Barclays (BARC.L) bankers were sentenced to between 33 months and six-and-a-half years in jail by a London judge on Thursday for conspiring to rig global benchmark interest rates. Calcutta-born Jay Merchant, 45, the most senior of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53416,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53415\/revisions\/53416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}