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    • Friday, 21 January, 2022
      Cryptocurrencies
      Thailand’s Bitkub plans crypto expansion in SE Asia

      Chief plots push into region amid growing trading volumes during pandemic

    • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
      EU fines banks €344m in forex trading probe

      Final investigation found traders had used Sterling Lads chatroom to share information

    • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
      HSBC accused of ‘blatant and indefensible’ forex fraud by ex-client

      Court hears closing arguments in 7-week trial between bank and currency manager ECU

    • Thursday, 8 July, 2021
      Financial services
      US regulator drops case against two former forex traders

      Richard Usher and Rohan Ramchandani had been acquitted on a criminal charge of price-fixing in 2018

    • Monday, 14 June, 2021
      HSBC Holdings PLC
      ‘Rotten culture’ pervaded HSBC forex desk, High Court trial hears

      Currency manager ECU Group accuses bank of fraud and misconduct in ‘disgraceful episode’

    • Friday, 12 March, 2021
      Citi heading to trial with forex trader

      New York judge rules lawsuit against bank alleging malicious prosecution is arguable in court

    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
      UK financial regulation
      Forex broker TFS-ICAP fined £3.4m for misleading clients

      FCA imposes penalty for encouraging trading with fake reports over 7-year period

    • Thursday, 30 January, 2020
      Markets
      FCA probes sterling spike ahead of UK interest rate decision

      Bank of England makes second referral in two months to financial regulator

    • Tuesday, 7 January, 2020
      Insider trading
      Former Goldman Sachs banker pleads guilty to insider trading

      US prosecutors case against Bryan Cohen outlined global ring reaping tens of millions

    • Wednesday, 11 December, 2019
      Banks face fresh collective action over forex manipulation

      Specialist litigation firm Hausfeld latest to launch suit on behalf of investors

    • Friday, 15 November, 2019
      Rohan Ramchandani
      Central bank trades prompted rival FX traders to share info

      Rohan Ramchandani tribunal hears central banks were ‘unprofessional’

    • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
      Banks
      Former HSBC forex chief Johnson loses appeal over US conviction

      Case revolved around $3.5bn transaction for energy group Cairn Energy

    • Thursday, 12 September, 2019
      Former HSBC trader’s fraud conviction upheld in US court
    • Monday, 29 July, 2019
      Five banks face civil lawsuit in London over forex dealing

      Case follows €1bn European fine for manipulating currency rates

    • Thursday, 6 June, 2019
      Swiss regulator to fine banks $91m over foreign exchange cartel

      Traders at Barclays, JPMorgan, Citi and RBS found to have rigged currency markets

    • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
      EU fines five banks €1bn over foreign exchange cartel

      Traders at RBS, Barclays, Citi, JPMorgan and MUFG used chat rooms to rig forex spot trading

    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
      Financial fraud
      UK’s poor record on corporate crime comes under attack

      Corruption report says companies breaking law in US more likely to be penalised

    • Tuesday, 22 January, 2019
      Lawyers for ex-HSBC trader attack ‘ever-shifting’ case

      New legal filings show US appeal will seek to have rate-rigging verdict overthrown

    • Monday, 26 November, 2018
      News in-depth
      Cleared British traders put US justice on trial

      Staff in London and elsewhere are vulnerable to legal forays, lawyers for trio warn

    • Friday, 26 October, 2018
      Bank traders acquitted in forex manipulation trial

      Price fixing case against London-based trio was brought by US prosecutors

    • Tuesday, 23 October, 2018
      Forex traders wrap up defence in price fixing trial

      Government’s star witness testified they did not think they were cheating anyone

    • Wednesday, 10 October, 2018
      Currencies
      Accused UK traders were only kidding, US jury told

      Prosecutors allege executives in London fixed prices in global foreign exchange market

    • Sunday, 7 October, 2018
      US & Canadian companies
      Forex scandal comes down to case against the ‘Cartel’

      Three British traders deny chatroom banter amounted to price fixing in US trial

    • Tuesday, 31 July, 2018
      Banks
      Former HSBC trader wins extradition appeal against US

      Stuart Scott was accused by US authorities of forex-rigging

    • Sunday, 29 July, 2018
      Currencies
      Barclays FX trader seeks to dismiss US charges over HP deal

      Lawyers argue bank had no ‘fiduciary’ duty to US tech group on Autonomy acquisition

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