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Who’s Next in Libor Spotlight?

Investigation of interest-rate manipulation has touched up to 18 financial institutions.

By Joshua Gallu, Bloomberg | Updated on July 03, 2012

Barclays Plc’s settlement of about $451 million with U.S. and U.K. regulators last week offered the first glimpse of what banks may have to pay to resolve a global probe of interest-rate manipulation. The question now is who’s next.

The two-year investigation, which involves regulators on three continents, has touched as many as 18 financial institutions that help set London and Tokyo interbank offered rates for dollars, euros and yen. That number includes as many as 12 firms that have fired or suspended traders in connection with related internal probes of whether their employees tried to manipulate the rates known as Libor and Tibor.

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