Suchergebnisse für Libor

Le droit bancaire privé suisse 2021 / Das schweizerische Bankprivatrecht 2021

Au moment où nous écrivons ces lignes, la Russie envahit l’Ukraine. L’Union européenne et les États-Unis ont adopté de nouvelles sanctions contre plusieurs centaines de personnalités liées au régime…

Le droit bancaire privé suisse 2017 / Das schweizerische Bankprivatrecht 2017

Les services d’investissement (intermédiation sur le marché des capitaux et le marché monétaire) ont une telle importance dans le débat sur la place financière suisse qu’on oublie souvent de rappeler…

Vertrauen – Begriffliche Grundlagen

In a philosophical tour d’horizon the abundance of con­ceptual foundations of trust is illuminated. Along with Charlie Chaplin and Vladimir Iljitsch Lenin, numerous other personalities have dealt with the term. In sociology, Niklas Luhmann described trust as a mechanism for reducing social complexity, as a function of faith without further review. In antiquity Aristotle’s trust was not only an…

Vertrauen, Kredit und Kreditsicherheiten

The relationship between creditor and debtor has often been described as a quintessential relationship based on trust, as evidenced by etymological origin of the term credit. Credit relationships are indeed shaped by the risk of opportunistic behavior of the debtor and principal agent problems. Limiting these risks by providing adequate incentives for cooperative behavior is a key objective in…

Financial Benchmarks: Bedeutung, Problematik und regulatorische Ansätze

Financial benchmarks have become important reference points in the global financial market guiding worldwide obligations in financial contracts in the amount of hundreds of billions of US-Dollars. Since July 2012, after the attempted manipulation of Libor became known, the issues of credibility and representativeness of such widely used financial benchmarks are in the spotlight of the global…

Financial Benchmarks – Bedeutung und internationale ­Regulierungsbestrebungen

The manipulation scandals surrounding the key interest rate LIBOR and benchmarks used in foreign exchange trading have rendered financial benchmarks a regulatory phenomenon. While they all serve a similar purpose, i.e. to provide a reference in a wide range of financial transactions, financial benchmarks vary significantly in their importance, data basis, underlying market and determination…

Europareport

Am 12. Februar 2015 wurden die Schlussanträge des Generalanwaltes Nils Wahl in einem Rechtsmittelverfahren der Deutschen Bahn gegen die Europäische Kommission veröffentlicht. Mit dem Rechtsmittel hatte sich die Deutsche Bahn gegen ein Urteil des Gerichts der Europäischen Union (nachfolgend auch: «EuG») gewandt, das wiederum die Durchführung einer Nachprüfung durch die Europäische Kommission als…