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Germany ends audits against Deutsche Bank over price fixing
Deutsche Welle ^ | 25.02.2016 | [mg/jr (Reuters, dpa)]

Posted on 02/27/2016 5:49:13 AM PST by Olog-hai

Germany's financial regulator has said it won't take further action against the country's largest bank over alleged interest rate rigging and precious metals price fixing. The moves takes the spotlight off a former boss.

The watchdog, known as Bafin, announced on Thursday it had ended several major special audits against Deutsche Bank. [...]

Deutsche Bank paid $2.5 billion (2.26 billion euros) in fines in April last year after investigations on manipulating interest rates. The bank was also probed for its role in rigging prices of gold, silver, platinum and palladium. It also recorded a multibillion-euro loss for 2015.

Bafin officials also closed a special audit into a derivatives trade that Deutsche Bank made with Italian bank Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at dw.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Germany; Government
KEYWORDS: bancamontedipaschi; deutschebank; eurobanking; gold; goldprice; interestrates; italy; preciousmetals; pricefixing; tbtfbanks; toobigtofail

1 posted on 02/27/2016 5:49:13 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

well glad That was settled


2 posted on 02/27/2016 5:56:51 AM PST by Therapsid (eagan)
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To: Olog-hai

...in return for Deutsche Bank giving cash handouts to Syrian refugees, right? /sarc (but probably likely enough true, under the table)>


3 posted on 02/27/2016 6:02:28 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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