CFTC Orders Barclays to pay $200 Million Penalty for Attempted Manipulation of and False Reporting concerning LIBOR and Euribor Benchmark Interest Rates Market manipulation
Key facts
- Release number
- 6289-12
- Release date
- 2012-06-28
- Type
- Market manipulation
- Primary source
- https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/6289-12
About CFTC enforcement
The CFTC charges market participants under the Commodity Exchange Act for spoofing, manipulation, fraud, wash trades, registration violations, and commodity-pool-operator misconduct. Most actions settle with restitution + civil money penalty + a bar/suspension. Crypto-asset cases have been a major share since 2019.