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Former Barclays chief executive Bob Diamond is set to be paid about £2m ($3m) in July, a year after he left the bank following its Libor interest rate fixing scandal.
2013-03-8

Banking giant UBS is fined $1.5 billion for attempting to manipulate the Libor interbank lending rate, becoming the second international bank, after Barclays, to be fined over the Libor scandal.
2012-12-19

Bob Diamond, former CEO of Barclays, gives evidence to the Parliament of the United Kingdom's Treasury Select Committee on the bank's manipulation of Libor and Euribor interest rates.
2012-07-4

Bob Diamond resigns as the Chief Executive of British bank Barclays following a scandal in which the bank tried to manipulate the Libor and Euribor interest rates systems.
2012-07-3

The British government announces a parliamentary investigation into the Barclays Libor scandal, with reports hoped to be filed by the end of the year.
2012-07-2

Barclays chairman Marcus Agius is to resign following the Libor interest rate scandal.
2012-07-1

The UK government announces an independent review of the workings of the Libor inter-bank lending rate in the wake of the Barclays scandal.
2012-06-30

The share price of Barclays bank plunges by 17 per cent after it was hit with a record fine for distorting key interest rates to rig international markets.
2012-06-28

Credit rating agency Moody's in its weekly credit report dismisses the significance of last week's EU agreement, saying it "does not change our view that risks to the cohesion of the euro area continue to rise." [https:--www.cnbc.com-id-45636510 (Reuters)]date=August 2019
2011-12-12

Credit rating agency Moody's downgrades the ratings of France's three biggest banks, Crédit Agricole, BNP Paribas and Société Générale.
2011-12-9