Banks Pay $5.7bn, Plead Guilty to Foreign Currency Fraud

Five major banks have agreed to pay fines of 5.7 billion dollars in the United States for manipulating foreign currency markets.

JP Morgan Chase, Barclays, Citicorp, the Royal Bank of Scotland and UBS have all made guilty pleas.

From Washington Daniel Ryntjes reports.

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