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The FX "fixing" scandal

From reuters.com

Bank of England (BoE) governor Mark Carney faces a grilling from UK lawmakers on Tuesday about what Bank officials knew about allegations that currency traders colluded to manipulate key exchange rates. The unfolding scandal has so far seen more than 20 traders placed on leave, suspended or fired by some of the world's biggest banks. Below is a timeline on the scandal that has engulfed the largely unregulated $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, the world's biggest financial market and which is now subject to a global investigation. July 2006: Minutes of a meeting of the BoE's FX Joint Standing Committee's ... (full story)

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