FRANKFURT: Britain’s financial regulator has harshly criticised Deutsche Bank’s top management for failing to cooperate in its probe of the rigging of benchmark interest rate Libor, German magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.

Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) wrote a letter saying that Deutsche Bank’s behaviour was unacceptable, the magazine said, adding that Deutsche Bank’s board discussed the letter.

The lender declined to comment.

The penalties expected to be imposed on the bank by US and UK authorities are likely to exceed $1.5 billion, the amount UBS Group AG paid in 2012, two sources told Reuters earlier in April.

Deutsche Bank is expected to settle with US and British authorities as early as Thursday over allegations that it tried to rig benchmark interest rates.

Spiegel wrote that some supervisors involved in the probe would seek to hold Deutsche Bank management accountable.

Published in Dawn, April 19th, 2015

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