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Brussels to fine three banks over Euribor rate rigging
By Rochelle Toplensky and Martin Arnold
Financial Times, London
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
Brussels on Wednesday will hit HSBC, JPMorgan, and Credit Agricole with multimillion-euro fines for rigging the Euribor interest rate benchmark, closing a five-year cartel probe into a scandal that shook the financial world.
The three banks held out against a 2013 settlement with the European Commission that imposed almost E1 billion of fines on Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, and Royal Bank of Scotland.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, is expected to unveil fines on the trio of banks ranging from tens of millions of euros to the low hundreds, according to people familiar with the case.
The decision is an example of the long shadow that still hangs over the industry from alleged misconduct during the years of the financial boom. ...
Ms. Vestager is still developing a cartel case against multiple banks for allegedly manipulating the $5.3 trillion forex market. Given the extent of evidence in the hands of investigators, officials expect any forex fines to exceed those imposed during the rate-rigging probes. ...
... For the remainder of the report:
https://www.ft.com/content/c43c4f8e-bbd7-11e6-8b45-b8b81dd5d080
Golden Predator Finds New Veins of up to 30.8 g/t Gold;
Airborne Geophysics Completed at 3 Aces Project in Yukon
Company Announcement
Monday, November 21, 2016
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada -- Golden Predator Mining Corp. (TSX.V:GPY, OTCQX:NTGSF) is pleased to announce additional surface exploration results and the results of airborne geophysical surveys from ongoing work at the 3 Aces project in southeastern Yukon, Canada. Highlights include:
-- Seven of Spades: Newly discovered zone with stacked flat lying quartz veins returning values up to 18.55 g/t gold.
-- Queen of Spades: Newly discovered zone with values up to 30.8 g/t gold.
-- Jack of Spades: Additional results from continuous panel sampling of a second higher bench returned 20 meters of 7.62 g/t gold including 11.7 g/t gold over 12.4 meters and 37.9 g/t gold over 1.7 meters.
-- Three of Spades: Additional assays have increased strike length of vein with returns including 6.95 g/t gold. ...
... For the remainder of the announcement:
http://goldenpredator.com/_resources/news/nr_2016_11_21.pdf
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