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BANKING giant Lloyds became the latest financial institution yesterday to be fined hundreds of millions over interest rate rigging.
Around £70 million of the £218m fine from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) relates to attempts by Lloyds to manipulate the fees payable to the Bank of England for participation in a taxpayer-backed government scheme designed to support banks during the financial crisis.
The £105m total fine from the FCA is the joint third highest ever imposed by the regulator or its predecessor the Financial Services Authority and the seventh penalty for Libor-related failures.
Move Your Money campaign manager Charlotte Webster said the fine was a reminder that “the British banking system remains very broken.”
Barclays was the first to settle Libor rate-rigging claims, paying £290m in penalties to US and British regulators in June 2012, while state-backed Royal Bank of Scotland was hit with a £391m settlement.
