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28/07/2014
FCA Fines Lloyds Banking Group £105m
Lloyds Banking Group has been fined £105m for serious misconduct relating to the Special Liquidity Scheme (SLS), the Repo Rate benchmark and the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR).
£70m of the fine relates to attempts to manipulate the fees payable to the Bank of England for the firms' participation in the SLS, a taxpayer-backed government scheme designed to support the UK’s banks during the financial crisis.
The £105m total fine by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is the joint third highest ever imposed by the FCA or its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority, and the seventh penalty for LIBOR-related failures.
Whilst the firms' LIBOR-related misconduct is similar in many ways to that of other financial institutions, the manipulation of the Repo Rate benchmark in order to reduce the firms' SLS fees is misconduct of a type that has not been seen in previous LIBOR cases.
Tracey McDermott, the FCA's director of enforcement and financial crime, said: "The firms were a significant beneficiary of financial assistance from the Bank of England through the SLS. Colluding to benefit the firms at the expense, ultimately, of the UK taxpayer was unacceptable. This falls well short of the standards the FCA and the market is entitled to expect from regulated firms.
"The abuse of the SLS is a novel feature of this case but the underlying conduct and the underlying failings - to identify, mitigate and monitor for obvious risks - are not new.
"If trust in financial services is to be restored then market participants need to ensure they are learning the lessons from, and avoiding the mistakes of, their peers. Our enforcement actions are an important source of information to help them do this."
(CD/JP)
£70m of the fine relates to attempts to manipulate the fees payable to the Bank of England for the firms' participation in the SLS, a taxpayer-backed government scheme designed to support the UK’s banks during the financial crisis.
The £105m total fine by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is the joint third highest ever imposed by the FCA or its predecessor, the Financial Services Authority, and the seventh penalty for LIBOR-related failures.
Whilst the firms' LIBOR-related misconduct is similar in many ways to that of other financial institutions, the manipulation of the Repo Rate benchmark in order to reduce the firms' SLS fees is misconduct of a type that has not been seen in previous LIBOR cases.
Tracey McDermott, the FCA's director of enforcement and financial crime, said: "The firms were a significant beneficiary of financial assistance from the Bank of England through the SLS. Colluding to benefit the firms at the expense, ultimately, of the UK taxpayer was unacceptable. This falls well short of the standards the FCA and the market is entitled to expect from regulated firms.
"The abuse of the SLS is a novel feature of this case but the underlying conduct and the underlying failings - to identify, mitigate and monitor for obvious risks - are not new.
"If trust in financial services is to be restored then market participants need to ensure they are learning the lessons from, and avoiding the mistakes of, their peers. Our enforcement actions are an important source of information to help them do this."
(CD/JP)
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