{"id":1856,"date":"2017-10-24T14:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:07:23","slug":"ex-hsbc-executive-found-guilty-fraud-involving-3-5b-currency-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ex-hsbc-executive-found-guilty-fraud-involving-3-5b-currency-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Securities News: Ex- HSBC Executive Found Guilty of Fraud Involving $3.5B Currency Trading & Hedge Fund Sues Barclays For Copper Market Rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tA federal jury in New York has found Mark Johnson guilty on criminal charges accusing him of front-running <\/a>involving a $3.5B currency trade. HSBC\u2019s ex-foreign-exchange cash trading global head is the first banker that the US Justice Department charged over forex rate rigging.<\/p>\n

Johnson was convicted on eight counts of wire fraud and one count of wire fraud conspiracy, and he reportedly will appeal the verdict. Johnson maintains that he was acting in the best interest of the client involved and he did not do anything wrong or irregular. <\/p>\n

According to acting US Attorney in Brooklyn Bridget M. Rohde, Johnson used confidential information given to him by an HSBC client to make trades in an attempt to earn millions of dollars for the bank and himself while costing the client money. He and ex-HSBC European currency trading head Stuart Scott allegedly engaged in front running, which involves making trades based on advanced information about a big market order, with the advanced trades rendering huge profits once the bigger transaction has upped the price. Scott is currently in the UK battling extradition efforts to bring him back to the US.<\/p>\n

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A federal jury in New York has found Mark Johnson guilty on criminal charges accusing him of front-running involving a $3.5B currency trade. HSBC\u2019s ex-foreign-exchange cash trading global head is the first banker that the US Justice Department charged over forex rate rigging. 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