紐約調查Isdafix基準利率操縱案

New York’s banking regulator is probing an emerging benchmark trading scandal relating to the suspected manipulation of US interest rate swaps, according to people familiar with the matter.

據知情人士稱，紐約銀行業監管機構正對與美國利率掉期操縱相關的一樁新的基準利率交易醜聞展開調查。

The Department of Financial Services investigation into the so-called Isdafix is in its early stages and has not yet honed in on particular banks, the people said.

這些知情人士表示，紐約金融服務管理局(Department of Financial Services)對所謂的Isdafix基準利率的調查剛剛開始，尚未針對具體銀行。

The revelation follows the disclosure by the Financial Times on Friday that German regulator BaFin had highlighted Deutsche Bank’s involvement in Isdafix in a scathing report on the lender triggered by the Libor-rigging affair.

英國《金融時報》上週五報道，德國聯邦金融服務監管局(BaFin)在一份有關德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)的措辭嚴厲的報告中強調，該銀行參與了操縱Isdafix的行爲，這份報告是由倫敦銀行間同業拆借利率(Libor)操縱案引發的。

BaFin found that a New York trader tried to rig Isdafix in 2010 to help the bank’s position at the expense of fund management client Pimco. The regulator only became aware of the issue after Pimco complained, according to BaFin.

德國聯邦金融服務監管局發現，一紐約交易員在2010年曾試圖操縱Isdafix，在損害基金管理客戶太平洋投資管理公司(Pimco)利益的情況下幫助德意志銀行的頭寸。據德國聯邦金融服務監管局稱，該局是在太平洋投資管理公司提出控訴後才知曉此事的。

It took four years for Deutsche Bank to cut the bonus of the trader, the report said. It was outgoing co-chief executive Anshu Jainwho headed the relevant division at the time, BaFin said. Mr Jain resigned unexpectedly this month, weeks after the previously undisclosed BaFin report was delivered to the bank.

報告稱，德意志銀行用了4年時間削減該交易員的獎金。德國聯邦金融服務監管局稱，當時負責相關業務的是德意志銀行即將離任的聯合首席執行官安舒•賈恩(Anshu Jain)。在德國聯邦金融服務監管局這份之前未公開的報告送交該銀行幾周之後，賈恩在本月辭職，令人意外。