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US: Banks want consolidated forex case trashed

By  |  June 2, 2014

A US judge heard a request from several of the world’s largest banks to toss out a consolidated antitrust lawsuit against the lenders, which are accused of rigging the foreign exchange market.

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    The twelve banks, which include Bank of America, Barclays and Goldman Sachs, asked a US district judge to dismiss the case because the plaintiffs did not properly allege that the banks partook in a conspiracy.

    The plaintiffs are various investors who accuse the lenders of manipulating the $5-trillion-a-day foreign exchange market since January 2003 by colluding through online chat rooms, email and instant messaging. But in a joint filing, the banks claimed “the complaints do not plead a single fact about a single instance in which a single defendant engaged in even one concerted act to manipulate any particular currency rate.”

    The lawsuit is only part of a global crackdown on alleged market-rigging; the latest claims of foreign exchange rigging is now being probed by various regulators that have also had to sanction banks for their alleged roles in LIBOR and Euribor manipulation.

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