Barclays forex trader charged in 'front-running' scheme
The Department of Justice has charged the former head of Barclays Capital’s New York foreign exchange trading operation in an indictment for his alleged role in a scheme to defraud a client of Barclays through a method commonly referred to as “front-running.”
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