Financials

Goldman Sachs is investigated over currency trading: Filing

Adam Jeffery | CNBC

Goldman Sachs is being investigated over its currency trading activities, the biggest U.S. investment bank said in a regulatory filing Thursday.

Goldman is cooperating with the regulatory probe and a host of others, including one into its commodities trading, the bank said in a quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Britain's Financial Conduct Authority is leading an investigation by a group of global regulators into currency trading practices of several big banks. Goldman did not give any details about the probe that it disclosed.

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By Reuters.