Former RBC FX trader suing bank for £13 million

A senior currency trader fired from Royal Bank of Canada is taking the bank to task at an unfair dismissal hearing that includes accusations of sloppy trading, alleged bribery and an 'incoherent and inconsistent' global FX policy that he claims no one had bothered to read.

John Banerjee was headhunted to work at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) as an emerging markets trader at director level in June 2015. Just over a year later he was dismissed. He claims this is because he blew the whistle on a number of failings at the bank – which put senior managers’ noses out of joint – and is now suing the bank for £13 million.

Banerjee describes in his witness statement a firm with “no effective systems and controls, particularly in compliance” and that important issues were “swept under the carpet”.

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