Five ex-Barclays traders win appeal to clear rate-rigging convictions

Five former Barclays traders, jailed in Britain for plotting to rig global, benchmark interest rates, won an appeal to clear their names, further unravelling some of the UK Serious Fraud Office's most high-profile prosecutions. The traders were cast by prosecutors as a symbol of banker greed at a time of taxpayer fury at eye-watering bank bailouts following the 2007-2009 credit crisis.