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Regulators have imposed fines on six major banks for rigging foreign exchange markets. George Osborne argues that action have been taken in order to clean up corruption so there will be a financial system that works for everyone. 

This article concerns the banks in the area of the UK. Banks such as: citibank, HSBC, UBS, and Royal Bank of Scotland. These banks have been fined at total of 2.5 billion pounds for rigging exchange rates. In order to receive more income.

Three traders, who called themselves the "Three Musketeers", worked in big corporate banks and that met in a chat room to coordinate their buying and selling to shift currencies to their favor. Regulators have caught onto what these traders and banks have been doing and fined them with a fine over $4 billion.

This article talks about how the iPhone 5C is doing. It seems that it isn;t doing to well, however this might not be the case. It talks about how apple could lower the price of the phone to make more people want it, however, they don't seem to need to take those steps. (This refers to price elasticity).

foreign exchange rigging displays the vitalness and potential benefits that can com from aving a good value to your currency

This article is about how some of the 6 largest banks have been fined £2.6 billion for manipulating exchange rates for a number of years. The case is a good indication of the importance of exchange rates and that well-known and supposedly well-respected banks are willing to take the risk of committing this crime.