American banks have so far escaped the billions of dollars in fines that have been levied by U.S. and British regulators leading a global seven-year probe into interest-rate rigging. That is likely to change. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority are working on a final round of civil charges against several banks for alleged manipulation of a benchmark underpinning interest rates on trillions of dollars of financial contracts world-wide, according to people close to the probe. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, is still being investigated by the ... (full story)