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S&P Global Market Intelligence offers our top picks of banking news stories and more published throughout the week. Regulatory * Barclays Plc is facing a £1.1 billion lawsuit from Atlanticus Corp. unit CCUK Finance Ltd. for allegedly misselling payment protection insurance policies as part of a £390 million deal. * Deutsche Bank AG is finalizing a settlement with the U.S. Federal Reserve to resolve a probe into the lender's alleged failings in money-laundering controls that purportedly allowed billions of dollars to be moved out of Russia. * BNP Paribas SA and its New York branch agreed to pay $350 million to the New York State Department of Financial Services, the state's banking regulator, for "significant" violations in the lender's global foreign-exchange business. * A judge postponed to Jan. 9, 2018, the trial of six traders charged with manipulating the Euro Interbank Offered Rate benchmark interest rate. The defendants, who include former Deutsche Bank trader Christian Bittar and former Barclays trader Philippe Moryoussef, were due to stand trial as of Sept. 4. * Central banks and regulators have set out a new code of conduct for trading in the global foreign-exchange market, comprising 55 principles covering areas including ethics, transparency, governance and information sharing, as well as electronic and algorithmic trading. The code aims for "a robust, fair, liquid, open and appropriately transparent global FX marketplace," according to the Foreign Exchange Working Group, a collective of central banks. * The European Banking Authority said it will launch its fourth annual EU-wide transparency exercise in September, adding that it intends to publish results...