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title: Price Manipulation and Collusion around the London 4pm Fix
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4819478/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-09-26
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: SSRN 4819478
source_url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4819478
featured: 2024-05-08
citations: 0
topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution
---


# Price Manipulation and Collusion around the London 4pm Fix

Research indicates that large dealers can manipulate prices and increase costs in the foreign exchange market through coordinated trading and information sharing.

- Source: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4819478
- Identifier: SSRN 4819478
- Released: 2024-05-07
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 48 (2024-05-08): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2024-05-08/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): 0
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Trading, Microstructure & Execution

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