Yet another Shakespearean banking tragedy opened this week, with Standard Chartered starring this time as the villainous rogue. The day of reckoning will be Wednesday, when the New York Department of Financial Services will hear the bank’s defence against charges of hiding the involvement of Iranian government clients in 60,000 wire transactions, worth at least $250bn. Call it the Ides of August.
上周银行业又有一出莎士比亚悲剧上演，此次扮演卑鄙恶棍的是渣打银行(Standard Chartered)。“审判日”就是周三（8月15日），届时纽约州金融服务局(New York state Department of Financial Services)将听取渣打的辩护证词，该行此前被控隐瞒参与伊朗政府客户约6万笔、至少价值2500亿美元的电汇交易。此次事件完全称得上是“八月风云”。
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