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This time we really are getting tough on dodgy bankers (just don’t expect it to reach the boardroom)

Plus: George Osborne’s RBS sale; and the power of crowdfunding

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

8 August 2015

9:00 AM

Fourteen years is a long stretch. The punishment imposed on former UBS and Citigroup trader Tom Hayes for his role as ‘the hub of the conspiracy’ to rig yen Libor rates is the same as the maximum sentence for burglary with intent to commit GBH. Even though no public attempt has been made to quantify his fraudulent profits or identify victims, Hayes’s punishment is twice that imposed on rogue trader Kweko Adeboli, who lost UBS $2.3

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