The criminal trial of a Barclays Plc foreign exchange trader over a complicated $8 billion transaction may hinge upon the context and perceived meaning of conversations, instant chats and emails -- ranging from the ordinary to the profane -- among his cohort.
The case stems from Hewlett-Packard’s hiring of Barclays as an adviser for its ultimately disastrous 2011 acquisition of Autonomy Corp., which at the time was the U.K.’s second-largest software business.
