article_snippet.sent: Billion pound bill: Barclays is currently waiting for a huge fine for manipulating the £3trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, and has set aside almost £1.3billion so far for the scandal .
article_snippet.sent: Rogue traders in London orchestrated a worldwide conspiracy to rig interest rates, landing Germany’s biggest bank with a record £1.7billion fine.
article_snippet.sent: Several banks have already been penalised after traders were caught manipulating Libor interest rates, which are used to set the cost of mortgages and are linked to trillions of dollars of investments around the world.
article_snippet.sent: So far total fines against banks including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland have hit £5.6billion.
article_snippet.sent: But the latest settlement dwarfs the £1billion levied against UBS in 2012, which was previously the biggest fine issued for rigging Libor rates.
article_snippet.sent: So far just 12 of the people involved in rate-rigging have been sacked, but US regulators have now ordered Royal Bank of Scotland to fire another seven staff, including six senior employees in London.
article_snippet.sent: Barclays is currently waiting for a huge fine for manipulating the £3trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, and has set aside almost £1.3billion so far for the scandal.
article_snippet.sent: Last year Barclays was also forced to set aside £1.1billion for mis-selling payment protection insurance, taking Barclays total bill so far to £5.2billion.
highlights_snippet.sent: Bank has also been hit by huge bills for wrongdoing, with another coming .
  