英国金融行为监管局（FCA）周五宣布，已撤销对因操纵基准利率而被定罪的交易者科林·伯明汉姆、菲利普·莫里尤塞夫、乔纳森·马修和克里斯蒂安·比塔尔的终身禁令，称将不对这些人员在此事上采取进一步行动。
The UK markets watchdog lifted lifetime bans on traders convicted of rigging benchmark interest rates, a week after the Court of Appeal overturned their criminal convictions.
上周，英国上诉法院推翻了五名前巴克莱银行员工及前德意志银行交易者比塔尔的刑事定罪。
By Lucca de Paoli“We have revoked the bans of Colin Bermingham, Philippe Moryoussef, Jonathan Mathew and Christian Bittar,” the Financial Conduct Authority said on Friday. “The FCA will take no further action against these individuals in relation to this matter.”The Court of Appeal quashed the convictions of five former Barclays Plc bankers and ex-Deutsche Bank AG trader Bittar last week.
此前，英国最高法院推翻了前瑞银集团交易者汤姆·海耶斯的定罪，他是首起且最受关注的利率操纵案定罪者。法院认为海耶斯审判中陪审团受到误导，海耶斯及另一名交易者卡洛·帕洛姆博应被无罪释放。
The reversals came after Tom Hayes, the ex-UBS Group AG trader who was the first and most high profile of the people convicted for rate rigging, had his conviction overturned at the UK Supreme Court. The judges ruled that the jury was misdirected at the Hayes trial and that he and another trader, Carlo Palombo, should be exonerated.
利率操纵丑闻涉及基准利率的操纵，这些利率支撑着超过350万亿美元的贷款和证券。丑闻在2008年金融危机后银行业仍面临公众愤怒时被曝光，导致十几家银行和经纪商被处以近100亿美元的全球罚款。
The scandal — over the fixing of benchmark rates that underpinned more than $350 trillion of loans and securities — surfaced when the banking community still faced public outrage after the 2008 financial crisis and led to global fines of almost $10 billion for a dozen banks and brokerages.
严重欺诈办公室的起诉导致九人因欺诈罪被定罪，但目前仅有一项定罪仍然成立——而该定罪也将被上诉。
Serious Fraud Office prosecutions led to nine convictions for fraud offenses, but only one of those verdicts still stands — with that one set to be appealed as well.
最高法院认为，海耶斯的初始定罪不成立，因为尽管可能有足够证据定罪，但陪审团在其刑事审判中受到误导。律师们辩称，海耶斯审判中的法律错误与导致五名前巴克莱交易者被监禁的定罪十分相似，因此这些定罪应被推翻。
The Supreme Court ruled that Hayes’ initial conviction was unsafe as the jury had been misdirected at his criminal trial despite saying that there may have been enough evidence to convict him. The legal errors at play in the Hayes trial were similar enough to the convictions that saw the five Barclays traders jailed that the convictions should be overturned, lawyers for the appellants argued.