Cartesiano Regulator,
Nova pedra no charco da Banca a fazer ondas tzunami: manipulação dos cambios
Como se já não chegasse terem provocado a crise económica atual com as hipotecas tóxicas e a intoxicar tudo onde tocou,
depois apareceu o escândalo da falcatrua com o Libor,
depois continuaram a meter no bolso salariões e bónus gordurosos quando os já tinham literalmente falido,
depois surgiu a roubalheira do PPI e devolução de somas astronómicas,
e agora surge a investigação sobre a manipulação dos cambios.
São uns corruptos e não têm vergonha na cara. São matreiros como a raposa, calam-se, amuam e continuam a fazer das deles, a roubar o cidadão.
4 February 2014
Last updated at 19:07
Martin Wheatley says the FCA is investigating a range of benchmark rates
Foreign exchange allegations 'as bad as Libor', says regulator
Martin Wheatley says the FCA is investigating a range of benchmark rates
Allegations
of foreign exchange rate-fixing at major banks are "every bit as bad"
as the Libor scandal, the boss of the UK's financial regulator has said.
Martin Wheatley, the head of the Financial Conduct Authority
(FCA), told MPs that 10 banks were now helping with its investigation.
Traders are alleged to have colluded in setting certain key exchange rates in the £3bn-a-day forex market.
The Libor interest rate scandal led to banks paying $6bn in fines.
Traders were found to have used online chat rooms to collude
in setting the Libor rate - used to set the cost of borrowing between
banks.
"The allegations are every bit as bad as they have been with Libor," Mr Wheatley told the Treasury Select Committee.
He revealed that the FCA's probe had now widened, and "a
number of other benchmarks that operate in London" were being
investigated "because of concerns that are being raised with us".
Other regulators around the world are also investigating
possible manipulation of foreign exchange rates, but London's position
at the centre of the market makes the FCA's investigation particularly
significant.
Several banks, including RBS and Barclays in the UK, have
launched their own internal investigations and already suspended foreign
exchange traders.
Mr Wheatley said "the surprise for all of us" was that the
allegations about fixing forex trades and the suggestion of collusion
among traders have become so strong.
However, he told the committee that it was unlikely that the
FCA's investigation would reach any conclusions this year. "I hope that
we will next year... We are still in the investigation phase."
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