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.
上週銀行業又有一出莎士比亞悲劇上演，此次扮演卑鄙惡棍的是渣打銀行(Standard Chartered)。「審判日」就是週三（8月15日），屆時紐約州金融服務局(New York state Department of Financial Services)將聽取渣打的辯護證詞，該行先前被控隱瞞參與伊朗政府客戶約6萬筆、至少價值2500億美元的電匯交易。此次事件完全稱得上是「八月風雲」。
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