US criminal prosecutors head to Britain to investigate FX rate rigging allegations on foreign soil LeapRate

April 28, 2014 BY Andrew Saks-McLeod

US criminal prosecutors head to Britain to investigate FX rate rigging allegations on foreign soil

US criminal prosecutors have arrived in London to interview individuals away from domestic territory as government investment in the rate fixing case extends overseas The United States criminal justice system is well renowned for ensuring that potential wrongdoings are put right, even if the alleged perpetrators are overseas. Yesterday, forming the most recent development in…

November 01, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

Big banks suspending senior FX execs as 4pm fix investigation intensifies

Senior forex traders at RBS, Citigroup, JPMorgan and Standard Chartered put on leave. The 4pm Fix investigation dominoes are starting to fall.... Rohan Ramchandani of Citigroup, Matt Gardiner of Standard Chartered and Richard Usher at JP Morgan, plus two unnamed Forex executives at RBS, were all separately either suspended or placed on leave from their…

October 14, 2013 BY Gerald Segal

FBI joins UK's FCA and Switzerland's FINMA in probing FX rate manipulation

Focus seems to be on chat room activity around the daily 4pm London fix. A report Friday by Bloomberg suggests that the US Justice Department and the FBI are conducting separate criminal probes into foreign currency rate market rigging by some of the world's biggest banks, around the daily 4pm fix of various currency pairs.…

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