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The firm has also trimmed its investment banking operations, which came under scrutiny this year after R.B.S. was forced to pay a $612 million fine connected to a rate-rigging scandal.
Along with the $1.5 billion fine connected to the manipulation of the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, UBS had billions of dollars of losses during the financial crisis because of risky trading activity.
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The company faces multiple civil and criminal investigations in that episode, and it has set aside more than $32 billion to pay claims and fines connected to it.
A number of British banks, including HSBC and Barclays, have recently been forced to pay large fines connected to illegal activity by some of their employees.
In a conference call with reporters, Tom Naratil, the bank's chief financial officer, declined to comment on whether UBS had made specific provisions to cover potential fines connected to the manipulation of the rate.
There are also likely to be more fines connected to forex problems for a number of banks, including RBS.
Industry leader BAE Systems was forced to pay £300 million in fines connected to allegations it bribed Saudi officials.
The gas company is facing ongoing investigations by the state attorney general's office and the Los Angeles city attorney's office, dozens of lawsuits for economic damages, and the possibility of environmental fines connected to the well's release of an estimated 80,000 metric tons of mostly methane into the atmosphere.
In 2008, Massey paid a $20 million fine to the Environmental Protection Agency, and that same year, a Massey subsidiary, the Aracoma Coal Company, pled guilty to safety violations and agreed to $4.2 million in civil penalties and criminal fines connected to the 2006 deaths of two miners in a fire.
There followed a technically accurate description of the gadget, a small metal cylinder consisting of two fine wires connected to a tiny piece of semi-conductive material soldered to a metal base.
In each wash all adherent fluid in the culture dish was removed with the aid of a fine nozzle connected to a water-suction pump.
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