EU charges eight banks over alleged government bond cartel
To play devils advocate.
Around that time you had periods where banks didn't know if their competitors were going to be around next month, there were also periods where they didn't know if several major European nations were going to be defaulting on their debts.<p>In that kind of situation do the normal rules apply? I don't doubt during the banking crisis several 'dodgy' deals were done between the central banks, politicians, and banks. And if it stopped the entire global economy going tits up, I'm ok with that.<p>Now the devil is in the details obviously, this could just be a case of personal enrichment.