telegraph.co.uk / January 29, 2013
RBS executives are resisting any guilty plea, the WSJ said, citing people close to the negotiations.
“Discussions with various authorities in relation to Libor setting are ongoing. We continue to cooperate fully with their investigations,” an RBS spokesman said.
The financial penalty is expected to be around £500m, the report said, with the settlement coming within weeks.
RBS would be the third bank after Barclays to settle allegations over the rigging of Libor, a benchmark interest rate used to fix the cost of borrowing on mortgages, loans and derivatives worth more than £288 trillion globally.
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