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
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
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
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
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
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