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Wall Street pays $1.8bn in fines after traders use banned messaging apps

Eleven banks and brokerages admit they violated rules that require storage of written communications

Eleven of the world’s largest banks and brokerages will collectively pay $1.8bn in fines to resolve regulatory investigations over their employees’ use of messaging applications that broke record-keeping rules, US regulators said on 27 September.

The firms include brokerage units of Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Nomura.

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