BRUSSELS-- J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. was fined a total of more than EUR72 million ($92 million) by European Union regulators Tuesday for rigging a benchmark interest rate and operating a separate cartel for Swiss franc derivatives, marking the latest phase in an EU crackdown on alleged market abuse by financial institutions.

The European Commission, the bloc's central antitrust regulator, said J.P. Morgan and Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC had colluded between March 2008 and July 2009 in an attempt to rig the Swiss Franc London interbank offered rate, a benchmark interest rate.

In a separate decision, the commission said J.P. Morgan, RBS and two Swiss banks-- Credit Suisse Group AG and UBS AG--had operated a cartel for Swiss franc interest rate derivatives between May and September 2007. UBS was fined EUR12.7 million for participating in the cartel, while Credit Suisse will pay EUR9.2 million.

All banks recognized their involvement in the cartels, in exchange for a 10% reduction in their respective fines, the EU's antitrust chief Joaquín Almunia said in a statement.

"Cartels in the financial sector, whatever form they take, will not be tolerated," Mr. Almunia said.

RBS avoided fines of around EUR115 million because it revealed the existence of the cartels.

A spokeswoman for J.P. Morgan said the settlement "makes no finding" that the bank's management or employees knew about or were involved in the cartels, "or that the trader's actions had any impact on the firms' Swiss Franc Libor submissions or the published Swiss Franc Libor rates."

A spokesman for Credit Suisse said the bank had decided to settle the case "to avoid lengthy legal proceedings." RBS and UBS declined to comment.

Regulators on both sides of the Atlantic have levied some EUR6 billion in fines against financial institutions in connection with probes into manipulation of widely used financial benchmarks such as Libor and Euribor.

Tuesday's fines pales in comparison with the record EUR1.71 billion penalty against six financial companies handed down by the EU in December, for operating cartels to rig the yen Libor and the euro interbank offered rate, or Euribor. That ruling also targeted RBS and J.P. Morgan, as well as Deutsche Bank AG, Société Générale SA, Citigroup Inc. and RP Martin Holdings Ltd, a small London cash broker.

The scale of the fines reflects "the value of sales of the relevant products and the duration of the infringements," Mr. Almunia said.

Further fines are possible. Last year the commission charged 13 of the world's largest investment banks with colluding in the $18 trillion market for credit derivatives. The bloc is also investigating possible manipulation of foreign exchange markets.

Write to Tom Fairless at tom.fairless@wsj.com

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