Credit Suisse Pays $135 Million to Settle New York FX Probe
- Bank front-ran orders on its FX platform, DFS’s Vullo said
- Deal calls for outside consultant to oversee forex trading
Pedestrians pass by the front of the Credit Suisse Group AG headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2017.
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Credit Suisse AG will pay $135 million to resolve currency-manipulation allegations by New York’s banking regulator, the latest echo from authorities’ long-running scrutiny of foreign-currency trading at big banks.
Traders at the Zurich-based bank, prodded by executives in some cases, shared information about clients’ currency orders, talked to traders from other banks and in some instances front-ran customer orders in an effort to boost the bank’s own profits, New York’s Department of Financial Services said as it announced a settlement on Monday.