Bloomberg Societe Generale SA said a former trader who insists he was made a scapegoat for the bank’s role in a rate-rigging scandal should face up to criminal charges in the UK before a Paris court rules on his bid for more than $9 million in compensation. The French lender disputed Stephane Esper’s lawsuit at a hearing, saying that employment ...

Bloomberg Standard Chartered Plc, one of the biggest financiers of global trade, isn’t losing sleep over an increasingly fractious relationship between the world’s two largest economies. Standard Chartered is well-positioned to deal with the fallout of a lasting dispute between the two nations, the bank said as it reported first-half profit that beat analysts’ estimates. Despite the escalation of US ...

Bloomberg Stuart Scott, the former head of currency trading at HSBC Holdings Plc, won a last-ditch battle to block his extradition to the US, where he would face wire-fraud charges. Scott was charged, along with his ex-boss Mark Johnson, by the US Justice Department in July 2016 with front-running a $3.5 billion currency order from Cairn Energy Plc in 2011 ...