BNP Paribas pleads guilty to CEEMEA manipulation

Kathryn Haake

29 January 2018

BNP Paribas (Credit: BalkansCat)

BNP Paribas USA has pleaded guilty to fixing currency prices in the foreign exchange market, becoming the sixth major bank to plead guilty in the Department of Justice’s ongoing investigation and the first known to have been charged for dealings in the Central and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and African currencies market.

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