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Citi shared central bank trading info with clients, former trader says

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Jamie McGeever
Reuters
Thursday, September 10, 2015

LONDON -- Citigroup sent details of its central bank customers' trading activity to another client and handed out details of its foreign exchange order book to customers in electronic chat rooms, a former foreign exchange trader said in a witness statement to a London court today.

Perry Stimpson, a former Citigroup currency trader who is claiming unfair dismissal, said the practices, which breached client confidentiality, were well known by senior managers.

"Our Investor Desk would comply with a weekly request from (a client) for details of central bank activity that Citi had transacted," Stimpson said in his witness statement to an employment tribunal in London. Stimpson did not specify which central banks he was referring to. ...

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/10/us-court-forex-citigroup-trade...



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