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FX Rigging May Have Spread to 200 Chat Rooms, Lawyer Says

  • Barclays, Citi, JPMorgan sued by investors over FX-rigging
  • Expanded evidence of chat rooms revealed in London lawsuit
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Traders may have used as many as 200 online chat rooms to rig foreign exchange rates, far more than previously thought, a lawyer for investors told a London court Monday.

Marie Demetriou, a lawyer for investment funds suing seven banks, said that some of the newly discovered chat rooms were instant message groups that lasted just a few hours while others were “permanent” fixtures established over months.