Global Banks on Trial

In the years since the 2008 financial crisis, U.S. federal prosecutors have brought dozens of criminal cases against the world''s most powerful banks, charging them with manipulating financial indices, helping their customers evade taxes, evading sanctions, and laundering money. To settle these cases, global banks like UBS, Barclays, HSBC and BNP Paribas paid tens of billions of dollars in fines. ...