Sources: BBC
The British bank Barclays fires Chief Executive Antony Jenkins for his failure to reduce head count and the pace of cost cutting with Chairman John McFarlane to act as interim CEO until a replacement is appointed. The bank was recently convicted of earning billions through fraud as part of the LIBOR scandal 2015-07-8
Five big banks Barclays, RBS, Citi, JP Morgan and UBS are fined $5.7 billion after a United States Department of Justice investigation into collusion by forex traders in several countries. The investigations estimated the banks profited over $100 billion from these crimes. 2015-05-20
British bank company Barclays announces that they plan to cut 19,000 jobs over the next 3 years and exit the retail bank market in Western Europe. 2014-05-8
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
Barclays appoints Sir David Walker as its new chairman following the Libor scandal. 2012-08-9
Moody's and Standard and Poor's lower their rating for Barclays from stable to negative in the wake of the Libor scandal. 2012-07-5
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
Barclays chairman Marcus Agius is to resign following the Libor interest rate scandal. 2012-07-1
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