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汇丰、摩根大通等世界级金融机构因涉嫌垄断操纵汇率将被处以数亿美元巨额罚款，涉案人员可能被提起刑事指控。
HSBC sets aside ￡236m to cover fines for global forex rigging
HSBC has set aside ￡236 million to cover possible fines it faces from an investigation into the rigging of foreign exchange markets, it said today.
The provision takes the total forUKmajor banks so far to more than ￡1billion after Barclays Bank and Royal Bank ofScotlandannounced last week they were setting aside ￡500million and ￡400million respectively.
The Financial Conduct Authority and Serious Fraud Office as well as US regulators are investigating banks over claims they rigged or attempted torig forex markets.
Although foreign currency is traded 24 hours a day globally, banks set daily currency ‘fixes’ for use by corporate customers.
Around 40 per cent of global currency trading goes through London. The scandal into forex rigging is expected to prove even more costly for the banks than a similar inquiry into the fixing of the Libor interest rate.
A series of messages between traders organizingthe currency rigging is also expected to be released by the FCA.
The Chancellor has announced plans to make it a criminal offence to rig foreign exchange markets.
The Bank of England has also been drawn into the affair with an investigation under way into whether senior officials at the Bank condoned the rigging.
JP Morgan underUScriminal probe on forex trade
The US Department of Justice has launched acriminal investigation of JP Morgan Chase's foreign exchange trading business, the bank disclosed Monday in a securities filing.
JP Morgan said it is cooperating with the DOJ probe and with otherUSand foreign investigations related tomanipulationin the forex trade, as it raised its estimate of related legal costs by $1.3 billion to $5.9 billion.
The foreign exchange probes focus on the bank's" spot FX trading activities as well as controls applicable to those activities," the filing said.
The bank is in talks with regulators to settle the cases, but "there is no assurance that such discussions will result in settlements," it added.
Previous disclosures by JP Morgan and other large banks of regulatory probes into foreign exchange trades have described civil investigations.
The investigation has focused on whether traders from large banks colluded via online chat rooms to set rates in the massive foreign exchange market. Several leading banks have suspended or fired traders amid the investigations.
Britain's Financial Conduct Authority is holding talks with JP Morgan and five other largebanks to settle allegations the banks conspired to manipulate currency trades, people familiar with the matter have told AFP.
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