Goldman Sachs has been ordered to pay a fine of $120m by the US derivatives regulator over claims that its traders tried to rig a vital benchmark in the $300tn market for interest-rate swaps. 高盛(Goldman Sachs)被美国衍生品监管机构勒令支付1.2亿美元罚款,原因是该行交易员被指试图在300万亿美元的利率互换市场操纵一个关键基准。 Yesterday’s order from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is the third relating to attempted manipulation of Isdafix, a key benchmark, following penalties for Citigroup ($250m) and Barclays ($115m) in May. 美国商品期货交易委员会(CFTC)昨日发布的命令,是针对操纵关键基准Isdafix的企图的第三份罚单,此前花旗集团(Citigroup)和巴克莱(Barclays)已在5月分别被罚2.5亿美元和1.15亿美元。 It drags Goldman in to a global rate-rigging probe that began with Libor and Euribor, two interbank lending rates, and moved on to foreign exchange. 最新罚单标志着高盛被卷入全球利率操纵调查,这项调查最初的焦点是伦敦银行间同业拆借利率(Libor)和欧元银行间同业拆借利率(EURIBOR),并已转向汇市。 |