British finance minister George Osborne rejected European Union plans to outlaw currency market manipulation on Thursday and instead set out his own proposals to make rigging exchange rates a criminal offence.
EU laws taking effect in 2016 will make it a criminal offence with a four-year jail term to rig key prices in a wide range of financial markets. But Osborne does not want these laws to apply in London, the world's biggest centre for currency trading...............................................Full Article: Source
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