Danske Bank Bonus Culture Investigated as Bond Probe Deepens

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Danish police are looking into how Danske Bank A/S’s bonus program might have influenced employees now being investigated for alleged bond price manipulation.

The Public Prosecutor for Serious Economic and International Crime, which on Feb. 7 accused Danske, six of its employees and its home-loan unit of rigging mortgage bond prices in 2009, needs to find out what role the prospect of a bigger paycheck played, Public Prosecutor Hans Fogtdal said yesterday in a telephone interview.