Bank of America slapped with $250 million fine after FX trading 'impropriety'
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Bank of America will pay $250 million in civil fines related to "improprieties" in its foreign-exchange trading business.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that Charlotte-based BofA, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup manipulated forex trades. Chase and Citi received $350 million fines each. The banks, including BofA, do not admit or deny any wrongdoing.
The fines follow multiagency examinations and investigations into the banks' activities in the global FX market, which has an average daily volume of more than $5 trillion.
"We expect national banks and federal savings associations to have controls in place that are sufficiently robust to ensure that employees will follow the law and adhere to the highest standards of conduct," said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry. "The enforcement actions we are issuing today make clear that the OCC will take forceful action, not only when the institutions we supervise engage in wrongdoing, but when management fails to exercise the oversight necessary to ensure that employees follow laws and regulations intended to protect customers and maintain the integrity of markets."
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Bank of America is Central Florida's second-largest bank, with $7.6 billion in local deposits and 65 branches.
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