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RBS laments 'sad day', accepts £400m fine in rate-fixing scandal


Ulster Bank parent Royal Bank of Scotland is to pay nearly £400m to regulators in the US and UK to settle its involvement in the Libor-rigging scandal.

RBS has agreed to pay the UK's Financial Services Authority £87.5m, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission $325m and the US Department of Justice $150m for Libor fixing.

RBS chairman Philip Hampton said it was a "sad day for RBS", but vowed to "put right the mistakes of the past".


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