Banks fined millions for rigging currency markets

Thursday, November 13, 2014

LONDON -- Traders with nicknames such as the "Three Musketeers" and the "A-Team" plotted over Internet chat rooms to manipulate currency markets for years, profiting at the expense of clients -- and then congratulating themselves for their brilliance -- regulators said Wednesday, as they fined five banks $3.4 billion.

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