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
The UK's Serious Fraud Office launches an investigation into payments between Barclays and Qatar Holding LLC after Barclays sought investment from the latter during the financial crisis in 2008. 2012-08-29
Barclays appoints Sir David Walker as its new chairman following the Libor scandal. 2012-08-9
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 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
Bob Diamond, the chief executive of Barclays bank, refuses to resign over the bank's role in manipulating interest rates. 2012-06-29
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
Moody's downgrades the credit rating of 15 major world banks: UK (The Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and HSBC), US (Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan), Rest of world (Credit Suisse, UBS, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole, Société Générale, Deutsche Bank, Royal Bank of Canada and Morgan Stanley). 2012-06-21