Washington — Barclays did not close the book on allegations of currency rigging with 2015’s guilty plea. Since then, the bank has reviewed more than 2.4-million documents as well as 100,000 audio calls about its foreign-exchange practices and interviewed dozens of current and former employees. Now the US government is using information from Barclays and two other banks, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, to broaden its long-running investigation into the manipulation of markets dealing in foreign currency. The three banks have cooperated to provide evidence of a potential new antitrust conspiracy in the currency spot market that prosecutors say involves different currencies than the ones at the centre of their 2015 guilty pleas, according to court papers filed by the government and the banks in advance of sentencings on Thursday. Officials at the banks and a justice department spokesman declined to comment. The disclosure shows the justice department has not completed its examination of ...
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