The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has fined Barclays Bank Plc (Barclays) £59.5 million for misconduct relating to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and the Euro Interbank Offered Rate (EURIBOR). This is the largest fine ever imposed by the FSA. Barclays’ breaches of the FSA’s requirements encompassed a number of issues, involved a significant number of employees and occurred over a number of years.  Barclays’ misconduct included: (i) making submissions which formed part of the LIBOR and EURIBOR setting process that took into account requests from Barclays’ interest rate derivatives traders.  These traders were motivated by profit and sought to benefit Barclays’ trading positions; (ii) seeking to influence the EURIBOR submissions of other banks contributing to the rate setting process; and (iii) reducing its LIBOR submissions during the financial crisis as a result of senior management’s concerns over negative media comment. In addition, Barclays failed to have adequate systems and controls in place relating to its LIBOR and EURIBOR submissions processes until June 2010 and failed to review its systems and controls at a number of appropriate points. Barclays also failed to deal with issues relating to its LIBOR submissions when these were escalated to Barclays’ Investment Banking compliance function in 2007 and 2008.