bank employees

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  Euribor maturities must be halved for simplicity, EU says

  By Ben Moshinsky, Bloomberg  |  January 11, 2013

  As part of an effort to restore trust in the scandal-hit Euribor interest rate, regulators said the number of maturities that make up the benchmark for trillions of euros of lending should be cut from 15 to seven.

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  UBS Libor traders face criminal charges

  By Lindsay Fortado, Phil Mattingly and Silla Brush, Bloomberg  |  December 19, 2012

  UBS AG will pay about $1.5 billion and two former traders face prison as the bank settled charges with U.S. and U.K. authorities for manipulating interest rates in a global conspiracy to boost profits and bonuses.

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  UBS Libor fine soars as traders bribed brokers to fix rate

  By Lindsay Fortado, Gavin Finch and Liam Vaughan, Bloomberg  |  December 19, 2012

  UBS AG’s $1.5 billion fine for rigging global interest rates expands the scandal to include bribery and highlights the influence of a trader in Tokyo who colluded with other banks to align their submissions.

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  Barclays gutted in energy trade as bonus limits spark exodus

  By Matthew Brown, Bloomberg  |  August 28, 2012

  Barclays Plc spent a decade assembling a team of the most successful gas and power traders in Europe. It took less than 16 months to lose most of them.

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  Finding the culprits of the crisis

  By Jane Wollman Rusoff  |  May 15, 2012

  Through her independent research into the global financial crisis, Janet Tavakoli uncovered what she calls massive, widespread fraud committed by a network of mortgage originators, securitizers, and rating and regulatory agencies, among others.

• Energy report: Bad policy has costs

  By Phil Flynn  |  May 6, 2010

  Daily fundamental energy report from Phil Flynn