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code of silence broken CITI , RBS . BZW . UBS . GSF . ICAP . RABOBANK cartel traders guilty of persistent market abuse .
I struggle to find confidence in our markets when yet again senior players are found guilty of manipulating and abusing our exchanges . The markets have griped for years about market abuse ; layering crossing ; spoofing etc ; yet time and time again exchanges have denied any wrong doings ........... finally the cat is out of the bag ....... Its looks as if they were lying . If the above banks /brokers are guilty of manipulation its safe to say our exchanges are AS guilty of a total failure of regulation ! Exchanges over the years received a multitude of complaints about rigged markets and other blatant abuses yet denied by their market supervision depts. Basically failed to provide "fair and orderly markets " .
Finally as this code of silence breaks and regulators fine and punish the guilty parties perhaps a suspension of trading would be a better punishment than a large fine ? Perhaps BZW not having an fx dept for a week is a fitting punishment . Sadly if the above are guilty then I believe the exchanges cannot be blameless and regulators therefore have to take action against the guilty exchanges !
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