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US, Britain fine six top banks nearly $6 bn for forex, Libor abuses

Published: 20 May 2015 - 05:22 pm | Last Updated: 13 Jan 2022 - 06:43 pm


New York--US and British regulators fined six major global banks nearly $6 billion Thursday for rigging the foreign exchange market and Libor interest rates.

The far-flung settlement included guilty pleas from Barclays Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Citicorp and the Royal Bank of Scotland for conspiring to manipulate the massive currency market, as well as a guilty plea from Switzerland's UBS, for violating a prior settlement of Libor charges.

AFP