The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has awarded almost $200m to a former Deutsche Bank employee who raised concerns about the manipulation of the Libor interest rate benchmark, marking the largest-ever payment under US whistleblower programmes.
The US derivatives regulator said the payment had been made for “timely original information” that significantly contributed to an already “open investigation”.
This led to a “successful enforcement action, as well as to the success of two related actions, by a US federal regulator and a foreign regulator”, the CFTC said in a statement. The agency did not identify the whistleblower, their employer or the associated regulatory action.