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Company: Barclays
Current Parent Company: Barclays
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Penalty: $115,000,000
Year: 2015
Date: May 20, 2015
Offense Group: competition-related offenses
Primary Offense: price-fixing or anti-competitive practices
Secondary Offense: interest rate benchmark manipulation
Mega-Scandal: Benchmark Manipulation
Violation Description: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an Order filing and settling allegations that Barclays PLC, Barclays Bank PLC, and Barclays Capital Inc. attempted on many occasions to manipulate and made false reports concerning the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix (USD ISDAFIX), a global benchmark for interest rate products.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: United Kingdom
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: banking
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