Loose Lips and FX Tips: How Chats Cost Banks $1.2 Billion

  • FX spot trader chatrooms exchanged sensitive business secrets
  • Argubly no information is safe to discuss with rivals
Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg
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Talk may be cheap, but in currency traders’ chatrooms, at least, improper messages can be very expensive for their companies.