Four large banks that controlled nearly 45 percent of the global spot currency market snared oil company BP to join a private club they dubbed “The Cartel” so they could pass along insider trading tips to one another, a Bloomberg report by Liam Vaughan. The Cartel traded against pension funds, mutual funds and other institutional investors who did not have the information. Both social and trading ties ran deep in a secret society operating inside, and some would say controlling, the financial services industry. The Cartel, BP and time zones The banks, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Barclays and UBS Group, teamed with…
"The Cartel" Manipulated FX Prices In Clubby, Personal Environment
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.