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Deutsche, Citi feel the heat of widening FX investigation

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jamie McGeever
Reuters
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

LONDON -- Global investigations into alleged currency market manipulation intensified on Wednesday as U.S. regulators descended on Citigroup's London offices and Deutsche Bank suspended several traders in New York, sources told Reuters.

The presence of Federal Reserve and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency officials at Citi's Canary Wharf office in the east of London this week comes after Citi last week fired its head of European spot foreign exchange trading, Rohan Ramchandani, following a prolonged period on leave, one source familiar with the matter said.

The suspensions of staff at Deutsche Bank in New York and possibly elsewhere in the Americas followed investigations into "communications across number of currencies," a second source said. ...

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/us-banks-deutsche-idUSBREA0E0J...



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