Libor Scandal to Cost UBS $1.6B: Report

UBS will pay $1.6 billion to settle with US and European officials in the Libor rate-fixing scandal, an insider tells Bloomberg—a penalty more than three times the size of what Barclays ponied up. Meanwhile, US officials are set to charge bankers in the manipulation of Tokyo interbank lending rates, according to another Bloomberg source. The Japanese arm of UBS is poised to plead guilty to rate-fixing since 2007. Last week saw three UK arrests in the scandal.