| U.S. homeowners filed a lawsuit against 12 banks, including Barclays Bank Plc and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), claiming that manipulation of the benchmark Libor lending rate made their mortgage repayments more expensive. Traders at banks in Europe and North America such as UBS AG (UBSN), Bank of America Corp. and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS), "unjustly enriched themselves" by manipulating the rate, according to the complaint. That allowed them to increase the payments by homeowners on adjustable rate loans, boosting profit, according to the lawsuit. |
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