Matt Levine, Columnist

Libor Chats and Bitcoin Scams

Also: spies, parties, hedge funds, barbecued unicorns.

May 26, 2016 at 1:16 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Libor.

There's not much new in Citigroup's $175 million Libor-manipulation settlement with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission yesterday. It's the same sort of dumb e-mails and chats that you've seen before; once again, the CFTC helpfully compiled the dumbest examples in a separate document for those who don't care about the law or the fines and just want to read the trader chats: