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Big banks plead guilty to currency market-rigging conspiracy, will pay $5.8 billion
So much for mere conspiracy "theory."
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Six Banks Pay $5.8 Billion, Five Plead Guilty to Market Rigging
By David McLaughlin, Tom Schoenberg, Liam Vaughan
Bloomberg News
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Six of the world's biggest banks will pay $5.8 billion and five of them agreed to plead guilty to charges tied to a currency-rigging probe as they seek to wind down almost half a decade of enforcement actions.
Citicorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays Plc, and Royal Bank of Scotland Plc agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros in settlements with the Justice Department announced in Washington today. The main banking unit of UBS Group AG agreed to plead guilty to charges related to interest-rate manipulation. The Swiss bank, the first to cooperate with antitrust investigators, was granted immunity in the currency probe.
The four banks that agreed to plead guilty to currency charges are among the world's biggest foreign-exchange traders. They were accused of colluding to influence benchmark rates by aligning positions and pushing transactions through at the same time. Traders who described themselves as members of "The Cartel" used online chat rooms to discuss their positions in the minutes before the rates were set, the Justice Department said. ...
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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/six-banks-pay-5-8-bill...
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