Bloomberg The US agency responsible for insuring bank deposits sued more than a dozen of the world’s biggest lenders, accusing them of contributing to the collapse of Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank by manipulating the benchmark Libor interest rate. The collapse of San Juan-based Doral was the biggest US bank failure of 2015. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., its receiver in …

Bloomberg Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc pays its female staff on average 37 percent less than men at the bank, joining Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Standard Life Aberdeen Plc in revealing an acute gender imbalance between employees under new disclosure requirements. Women at RBS receive average bonuses that are 64 percent lower than male employees, the bank said …

Bloomberg While Barclays Plc’s torrid 2017 ended on a mixed note, Jes Staley sees better things to come. Income from dealing stocks, bonds and currencies fell 18 percent, according to the bank’s fourth-quarter earnings report. That beat both the 26 percent decline estimated by UBS Group AG and the average 25 percent drop in markets revenue posted by Wall Street …