Morning Scan: UBS Fined for Rate-Rigging; Top Threats to Financial S...

Receiving Wide Coverage ... UBS Pays Up: Immunity didn't quite work out for UBS. The Swiss lender has agreed to pay $545 million to settle investigations into the alleged manipulation of foreign-exchange and Libor rates. UBS had reached a nonprosecution agreement with the U.S. back in 2012 over its alleged role in the Libor scandal, but prosecutors scrapped the deal when the bank later became implicated in forex rigging. Now it will plead guilty to oneÂ...