# Professor Rosa Abrantes-Metz is interviewed for a feature story on suspected cryptocurrency trading manipulation

1 Faculty News June 30, 2018 ![Bloomberg logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloomberg192x144.jpg?itok=yV529lwz)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tether-kraken-trades/) -- "'Large trades are not impacting prices,' said [Abrantes-Metz](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/Romy), the NYU professor and an expert on manipulation who has testified about rigging of the globally used Libor interest-rate benchmark, among many other cases. 'I’ve looked through lots and lots of data, and I don’t think this is real,' she said, referring to the trading on Kraken."

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