London bankers charged in global insider-trading ring
Charges against Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor bring relatively new advisory banks Moelis and Centerview into a widening insider-trading scandal
22 October 2019 - 17:48
Manhattan/London — Two London investment bankers were charged in the US with selling information about pending deals as part of a “large-scale, international insider-trading ring” that, prosecutors claim, generated tens of millions of dollars in illicit profits.
The charges were unsealed on Monday in New York against Benjamin Taylor and Darina Windsor, who both worked for global investment banks with offices in London and Manhattan. The US did not identify the banks in the indictment but Moelis & Company confirmed Taylor had worked at the firm...
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