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19. UBS suspends traders in Libor probe

Fri Feb 17, 2012, 08:37 AM

Feb 2012

UBS has suspended some of its most senior traders in connection with an international probe into the possible manipulation of interbank borrowing rates, in the latest controversy to hit the Swiss bank since the financial crisis...Inquiry has widened in recent weeks, with more than a dozen staff fired, suspended or placed on leave at different banks

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