
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC or Commission) today issued an Order filing and settling charges against ICAP Capital Markets LLC (ICAP), now known as Intercapital Capital Markets LLC (ICAP), for, by and through certain of its brokers, aiding and abetting numerous attempts by several of its bank clients to manipulate the ISDAFIX benchmark, a leading global benchmark referenced in a range of interest rate products, and requiring ICAP to pay a $50 million civil monetary penalty. The CFTC Order finds that over more than five years, beginning in at least January 2007 and continuing through December 2012 (the Relevant Period), ICAP’s swaps brokers were regularly enlisted by traders at bank clients to assist in attempting to manipulate the U.S. Dollar International Swaps and Derivatives Association Fix (USD ISDAFIX) for the benefit of their bank clients’ derivatives positions, including positions involving cash-settled options on interest rate swaps.