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Cartel

A cartel is a group coordinating to control a market. In the benchmark cases the traders' own chat rooms carried names of that flavour, which prosecutors used to establish the coordination directly.

compliance and practice · updated 2026-09-09

Where does cartel come up?

This term is used in the following manipulation techniques, each explained in full on its own page.

Enforcement actions involving these techniques

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
OSC v. Royal Bank of Canada (front running, 2019) OSC 2019-08-26 Front Running , FX Fixing +3 settled
OSC v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank (benchmark submission rigging, 2019) OSC 2019-08-26 Benchmark Submission Rigging , Front Running +3 settled
CFTC v. of Attempted Manipulation and False Reporting of Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates (benchmark submission rigging, 2015) CFTC 2015-05-21 Benchmark Submission Rigging , FX Fixing +1 $400m judgment
FCA v. Barclays Bank PLC (benchmark submission rigging, 2015) FCA 2015-05-20 Benchmark Submission Rigging , FX Fixing settled
CFTC v. of Manipulation (benchmark submission rigging, 2015) CFTC 2015-04-24 Benchmark Submission Rigging , FX Fixing +1 $800m judgment

See also

Terms that refer here

Collusion

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