UK’s virus-lead deaths rose to two-month high following PM Johnson’s early attempts to rule out national lockdowns. EU’s Brexit negotiator heads to London, German minister asked the UK to “stop playing games.” British Chancellor is reportedly trying to copy German efforts to safeguard the furlough scheme. Bank of England governor Mark Carney is set to face a grilling by MPs over claims that some of its officials knew about the alleged practice of foreign exchange rate-fixing. Mr Carney is due to LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have arrested Stuart Scott, a former senior HSBC (HSBA.L) executive accused of participating in a fraudulent scheme involving a $3.5 billion (£2.7 billion) Market regulators in Asia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States began to investigate the $4.7 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market (forex) after Bloomberg News reported in June 2013 that currency dealers said they had been front-running client orders and rigging the foreign exchange benchmark WM/Reuters rates by colluding with counterparts and pushing through trades before and during the 60-second windows when the benchmark rates are set. RBS withholds bonuses from 18 staff during forex probe. Published The bank was recently fined £400m by the UK and US authorities for its role in the scandal which emerged in 2012. Global banks admit guilt in forex probe, fined nearly $6 billion UBS AG
Britain's anti-fraud agency will get any extra funds it needs to pursue a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market, a finance ministry source said on Friday. 5/20/2015 1/16/2019
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This investigation into a forex scandal is called a forex probe. Currency rigging definition Currency price rigging or price-fixing or collusion is a very rare and illegal action of a market manipulation that occurs when parties conspire to fix or inflate currency prices to achieve higher profits at … 11/12/2014 By Matt Scuffham LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's anti-fraud agency will get any extra funds it needs to pursue a criminal investigation into alleged rigging of the $5.3 trillion-a-day currency market, a finance ministry source said on Friday. The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had last month asked for an 6/8/2017
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