Libor rigging defendant says he was beaten and humiliated at work

Barclays trader tells trial that he was given no training and was hit with mini baseball bat and often mocked, and didn’t realise rate changes were illegal A Barclays trader accused of conspiring to fix the Libor benchmark lending rate was humiliated and “whacked” across the back of the head with a baseball bat when he made mistakes at work, a court has heard.Jonathan Mathew started working at the bank when he was just 19, not having been to university or having had any formal