'It’s up and down like a whore’s drawers!' RBS trader’s boast as he fixed bank lending rates
State-backed RBS has been fined £390m for its part in Libor scandal
Regulators released swaggering e-mails swapped by traders
Joked about manipulating rates up and down in damning messages
Published: 19:10 EDT, 5 February 2013 | Updated: 21:02 EDT, 6 February 2013
The ease with which traders at Royal Bank of Scotland rigged interest rates has been laid bare in a series of damning emails.
As the state-backed bank was yesterday fined £390million for its part in the Libor scandal, financial regulators released some of the swaggering messages swapped by its traders.
In messages littered with spelling mistakes, the RBS traders joked about manipulating rates up and down.
Royal Bank of Scotland must almost £400million to US and UK regulators for its part in the Libor-rate fixing scandal