Law360, New York ( May 19, 2015, 9:33 AM EDT) -- In the ongoing fallout from the Libor manipulation scandal that has plagued several financial institutions over the last few years, Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial lender, recently agreed to plead guilty and pay $2.5 billion to settle criminal charges filed against it by regulators in the United States and United Kingdom for its traders' alleged role in colluding to rig and manipulate the London interbank offered rate (Libor). The Libor is among the most common benchmarks used to calculate interest rates for, among other things, mortgages, student loans and credit cards. Worldwide, the Libor applies to trillions of dollars of financial contracts....