NEW YORK CITY: A South Korean electronics firm has sued leading global banks in New York City for manipulating the foreign exchange market as regulators in several countries investigate similar allegations.

Circuit board maker Simmtech filed a class action suit last Friday (Saturday in Manila) in the New York Federal District Court, alleging that traders in the banks colluded to distort prices on the $5-trillion a day global forex market, cheating clients.

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