Regulator Probes What’s Public as Traders Access Fast BOE Feed

  • Financial Conduct Authority to look into audio breach
  • Bank of England says traders given improper access to session
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As the U.K.’s financial regulator probes whether traders got an unfair advantage by listening to Bank of England press conferences, it will have to get over one immediate hurdle: whether that information was public in the first place.