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    Global Banks to Pay Record Fines

    Some of the world's biggest banks have agreed to pay a record total of $5.8 billion in fines for illegal manipulation of dollars and euros on the currency market. Attorney General Loretta Lynch observed, "Currency traders at several multi-national banks formed a group they dubbed 'The Cartel.'

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    By Warren Olney • May 20, 2015 • 6m Listen

    Some of the world's biggest banks have agreed to pay a record total of $5.8 billion in fines for illegal manipulation of dollars and euros on the currency market. Attorney General Loretta Lynch observed, "Currency traders at several multi-national banks formed a group they dubbed 'The Cartel.' It's perhaps fitting they chose that name because it aptly describes the brazenly illegal behavior they were engaged in on a near five year basis." We hear more from David McLauglin who reports for Bloomberg.

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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      KCRW

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      Katie Cooper

      Producer, 'One year Later'

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      David McLaughlin

      Bloomberg

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