# Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz on the fines imposed on Barclays for its alleged manipulation of Isdafix

1 Faculty News May 21, 2015 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025699.jpg?itok=5SpaxEbn)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/8822b8dc-ffac-11e4-8c46-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3bM5bR1uh) -- "'I think that Barclays is just the tip of several fines on Isdafix. Isdafix may become very large, as swaps are a very large market too. Maybe fines will not be bigger than the foreign exchange fines, but I expect they could still be very big,' says [Rosa Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), managing director of Global Economics Group, an economic analysis company."

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