Caught Rigging Gold And Dark Pools, Barclays Begs To At Least Keep FX Manipulation!

• Caught Rigging Gold And Dark Pools, Barclays Begs To At Least Keep FX Manipulation! 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com
  2014 has not been kind to Barclays: first, the UK bank proved countless goldbugs right when it was first caught rigging the gold market (the first documented case, not the last) and a few short weeks later, the New York Attorney General crucified the bank for misleading its Dark Pool clients, and letting their order flow be, quite lucratively, front run by “aggressive” predatory algos – something it explicitly had stated it won’t allow. So with one after another revenue stream crashing before its eyes, what is the Chairman of the scrambling bank to do? Why beg to at least keep the FX manipulation going. What follows is not from The Onion. It is from FT:
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  The foreign exchange market needs “fine tuning” rather than heavy handed reform, the chairman of Barclays argued on Thursday, as he unveiled a new compliance academy aimed at raising standards within the bank.
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  Sir David Walker said that while the forex market was “vulnerable to taint” it had worked well for a very long time and that the focus now should be on ensuring better conduct by traders.
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  Translation: it may be rigged, but it’s rigged in a way that makes the riggers money. As for everyone else, if only the regulators had kept their mouth shut, nobody would have been the wiser and we could just blame those fringe blogs accusing banks of manipulating various assets of being “conspriacy theorists.” Which reminds us: we need to send some more Christmas stocking “stuffers” to the FSA…
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