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Five big banks face criminal charges and $5 billion bill over FX rigging

From uk.reuters.com

Five of the world's biggest banks are expected to be hit with a combined bill of more than $5 billion (£3.2 billion) and criminal charges on Wednesday in a settlement with U.S. and British authorities over rigging of currency markets. It will mark another dark day for an industry trying to put past sins behind it and brings the total in penalties some big banks will pay for their traders allegedly manipulating the $5-trillion-a-day foreign exchange market to about $10 billion. U.S. banks JPMorgan (JPM.N) and Citigroup (C.N) and Britain's Barclays (BARC.L) and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS.L) are expected to plead ... (full story)

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