Barclays Scandal

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  Four Ex-Barclays Bankers Jailed For Rigging Libor Rate

  Four former Barclays bankers were Thursday jailed for manipulating the key inter-bank Libor interest rate, with the highest sentence being 6.5 years, Britain's Serious Fraud Office said.

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  Ex-Barclays Traders Sentenced To Up To Six-And-A-Half Years In Jail For Libor Rigging

  Four former Barclays 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.

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  Scandal-Hit Barclays Bank Axes Chief Executive

  Troubled British bank Barclays, mired in the forex and Libor rigging scandals, announced today that it has fired chief executive Antony Jenkins.

• How London's gold and silver prices are 'fixed'

  London's gold and silver markets face the possibility of a probe into price setting, putting a century-old practice under the spotlight after the Libor rigging scandal that exposed widespread interest rate manipulation by banks.

• Barclays to cut pay by $890 million over scandals

  Britain's Barclays plans to cut or claw back about 450 million pounds of pay from its staff over a rate-rigging scandal that last year forced out its chief executive and chairman, a person close to the matter said on Wednesday.

• Brent holds on to nine-month high

  Oil and equities dawdled on Monday near multi-month highs scaled after robust Chinese trade data last week, while the euro slipped to a two-week low as uncertainty surrounded a political scandal in Spain and a looming election in Italy.

• Timeline: RBS fined $612 million over Libor rigging

  Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland will pay U.S. and British authorities $612 million and plead guilty to wire fraud in Japan to settle allegations it manipulated global benchmark interest rates. RBS grew from a Scottish bank to become one of the world's largest after a series of takeovers, including the purchase of NatWest in 2000, but it was s...

• Libor scandal: Cavalier RBS traders move 'the entire fixing, hahaha'

  Royal Bank of Scotland traders laughed and counted their profits as they rigged Libor interest rates and dubbed the London market a cartel, according to conversations published by regulators on Wednesday.

• How the Libor scandal unfolded

  Libor, the London interbank offered rate, is a global benchmark for interest rates on everything from credit cards to trillions of dollars in financial derivatives and is at the heart of a scandal over rate rigging. Libor rates are based on daily estimates from a group of banks as to how much they would expect to pay to borrow funds from each other...

• RBS fined $615 million for Libor rigging

  Britain's Royal Bank of Scotland will pay U.S. and British authorities $615 million and plead guilty to wire fraud in Japan to settle allegations it manipulated global benchmark interest rates.

• Barclays takes another £1 billion hit for mis-selling

  UK banks are embroiled in two separate mis-selling scandals, and Barclays said on Tuesday it had made an extra provision of 600 million pounds to compensate customers for payment protection insurance.

• Barclays finance director Chris Lucas, top counsel to retire

  Barclays said its finance director Chris Lucas and its top legal expert are to retire, adding to change at the top of the British bank as it struggles to put a series of scandals behind it.

• Libor probe may further shrink RBS investment bank

  Royal Bank of Scotland will face pressure to further shrink its investment bank should an investigation into interest rate rigging show cultural failings persist in the business, political and industry sources have said.

• UBS traders charged, bank fined $1.5 billion in Libor scandal

  U.S. prosecutors charged two former UBS traders on Wednesday with taking part in a multi-year scheme to manipulate Libor and other benchmark interest rates, making them the first individuals to be criminally accused in the international scandal.

• UBS fined $1.5 billion in growing Libor scandal

  Swiss bank UBS admitted fraud and accepted a $1.5 billion fine on Wednesday for its role in manipulating global benchmark interest rates.