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The Rest Is Money

198. The Trader Who Paid For The Financial Crisis

The Rest Is Money

Goalhanger

News, Politics, Business

3.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Why did the authorities jail LIBOR trader Tom Hayes when so many reckless bankers went unpunished? How was Libor so central to the multi trillion dollar financial system? What did Hayes do to put himself in the firing line? In the first part of a two-part series, Robert talks to Tom Hayes and shines a light on the true Libor scandal. It isn’t what you think. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up to our newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to get more stories from the world of business and finance. Email: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠restismoney@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@TheRestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RestIsMoney⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://⁠⁠⁠goalhanger.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Assistant Producer: India Dunkley, Alice Horrell Producer: Ross Buchanan Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor + Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:04.6

I'm in a fraud trial. There's no victims and there's no profit and loss and there's no money.

1:08.4

Based on a rule and a law that was made 10 years after the event, I've committed a crime.

1:12.8

Will you get compensation?

1:13.9

I'll get nothing from the government.

1:16.3

Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Money with me, Robert Pestan.

1:19.5

Now, today I will be talking to Tom Hayes.

1:24.4

He was the most high profile banker, certainly in the UK, and, you know, to an extent globally, to face a really serious prison sentence over charges that he faced that he manipulated markets.

1:47.8

This was what became known as the LIBOR scandal, but the striking thing about a case

1:57.5

that for years was somehow seen as a manifestation of everything that had gone wrong

2:06.6

in the city leading up to the financial crisis. The Supreme Court only in the last

2:14.4

literally few weeks has overturned that judgment against him.

2:22.0

He spent years in prison.

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