Barclays pays £1.5bn as banks fined over forex scandal
Barclays has been fined a record £284.4 million by British regulators and around £1.5bn in total as part of a UK and US settlement with authorities over the foreign exchange trading scandal.
Five banks - including Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland - were fined a total of more than $5 billion by the US Department of Justice over the manipulations.