- The ‘Cartel’ Is Back: EU Accuses 8 Banks Of Rigging European Government-Bond Markets
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
First it was the Libor-rigging cartel, then the FX exchange-rate manipulation cartel, now, European regulators have moved on to prosecuting “anti-competitive” practices in euro-denominated sovereign bond markets.
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One month after the European antitrust regulators charged Deutsche Bank, Credit Agricole and Credit Suisse of being a part of a ‘bond trading cartel’, regulators are bringing a separate case against eight unidentified European banks alleging that they conspired to rigging euro-denominated sovereign bond markets.
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Reuters reported Thursday that the European Union’s antitrust authority has charged the banks with operating the cartel behind 2007 and 2012.
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Just like in past cartel cases, traders at the accused banks allegedly used chat rooms to share “commercially sensitive information and coordinated trading strategies” that they presumably used to rig markets to benefit their own trading books – and shortchange their “counterparties”.
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https://socioecohistory.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/the-cartel-is-back-eu-accuses-8-banks-of-rigging-european-government-bond-markets/