銀行爲避嫌禁止交易員使用聊天室大綱
Several banks, including Barclays, Citi and Royal Bank of Scotland, have banned the use of most group chat rooms in moves that highlight how global probes into alleged benchmark manipulations are driving a radical reform of trading floors.
包括巴克萊(Barclays)、花旗銀行(Citi)以及蘇格蘭皇家銀行(Royal Bank of Scotland)在內的幾家銀行已經禁止大部分羣聊天室的使用，此舉突顯了針對基準操縱指控的全球調查正如何推動交易廳的徹底改革。
Investigations into the Libor interbank lending rate manipulation scandal prompted RBS sometime last year to ban unmonitored chat rooms where traders used to discuss market topics with rivals, two people familiar with those measures said.
兩位消息人士說，對倫敦銀行同業拆借利率(Libor)操縱醜聞的調查，促使蘇格蘭皇家銀行在去年某個時候禁止了非監控聊天室的使用。交易員曾利用此類聊天室與競爭對手討論市場話題。
“The bank clamped down on this big time. I think we were even going slightly overboard on this,” one senior banker said.
一位高級銀行家說：“銀行在大力取締聊天室。我認爲我們甚至做得有點過火了。”
Citi two months ago banned traders’ chat rooms with multiple banks, restricting instant messages to conversations with traders at one bank at a time. Barclays, which like the other two banks declined to comment, made similar reforms last year. Executives at JPMorgan are also examining whether conversations on so-called “multi-dealer” chat rooms cannot be carried out bilaterally over the phone.
兩個月前，花旗禁止交易員與多家銀行同時聊天，將即時消息限制於每次與一家銀行的交易員對話。去年，巴克萊做出了類似的改革。與另外兩家銀行一樣，巴克萊也拒絕對此發表評論。摩根大通(JPMorgan)的高管也在評估，所謂的多交易商聊天室對話，能否被一對一的電話聯繫替代。
Banks are re-evaluating their messaging systems as they grapple with the fallout from the Libor scandal and a global probe into alleged manipulation of the $5.3tn a day foreign exchange market, the latest in a series of benchmark-related rate-rigging investigations.
各銀行在重新評估各自的消息系統，他們需要努力克服Libor醜聞的衝擊波以及對每天5.3萬億美元的外匯市場操縱指控的全球調查，後者是一連串基準利率操縱調查的最新一項調查。
At least eight regulators in the UK, US, Switzerland and Hong Kong are involved in investigating more than 15 banks. That has so far triggered the suspension of at least a dozen traders across the globe amid suspicions that chat rooms were used to share sensitive client information.
英國、美國、瑞士以及香港至少有八家監管機構參與了對超過15家銀行的調查。由於涉嫌利用聊天室分享敏感客戶信息，目前全球至少已經有十幾名交易員被停職。
