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Goldman Sachs settles swaps business probe after paying $15m

Bank’s swaps dealer priced derivatives in terms that put clients at a disadvantage, CFTC says

Goldman Sachs agreed 10 April to pay $15m to settle regulatory claims that it obscured the cost of derivatives that clients purchased to bet on or against an index of overseas stocks.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said 10 April that Goldman in 2015 and 2016 didn’t tell clients that it priced swaps in a way that put them in a disadvantageous position. The swaps contracts were tied to an index of stocks from Japan, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand and Australia, the CFTC said.

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