The European Commission has fined a group of major global banks a total of $2.3 billion, or 1.7 billion euros, for colluding to profit from the manipulation of key interest rates.
The banks, which include JP Morgan, Citigroup and HSBC, are accused of manipulating for years European and Japanese benchmark interest rates that affect hundreds of billions of dollars in contracts globally, from mortgages to credit card bills.
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