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The Overseers

Episode 4 of 5

The secret tapes the authorities wouldn’t want you to hear, that could upend the official version of the biggest scandal since the financial crash

Who was responsible for Libor? It was hailed as the world’s most important number, but who was looking after it and were the custodians behaving with integrity? While traders went to prison for rigging interest rates, were there orchestrated manipulations of Libor by far bigger players?

Presenter: Andy Verity
Producer: Sarah Bowen
Music: Oskar Jones

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14 minutes

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Fri 6 Sep 202400:30

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  • Thu 3 Mar 202213:45
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  • Fri 6 Sep 202400:30

The whistleblowing bankers who were sent to jail

The whistleblowing bankers who were sent to jail

The BBC economics correspondent Andy Verity investigates.