The forex or currency trading market is the largest financial market in the world with an estimated $4 trillion traded daily, dwarfing the daily volume of any global stock market. In the past, forex markets were available only to large corporations, governments, central banks and hedge funds but the spread of the internet in the mid 1990s made it possible to trade currencies electronically, anywhere in the world, 24 hours a day, with no physical exchange needed. The easily accessible internet spawned the birth of online trading which now offers even the smallest trader access to the financial market place.
The indictment follows a multi-year investigation, which concluded that the firm engaged in "pervasive" and "substantial" insider trading, led to the arrest of several employees, and forced the investment firm to pay more than $600 million in a civil settlement. Interestingly, the indictment does not include SAC's prominent founder and chief, Steven Cohen. But, if SAC was truly committed to insider trading, is it plausible that Cohen did not know about it?
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