FBI tries new tactic in currency probe

Officials visited a New York-based Deutsche Bank trader with transcript of 'chat,' sources say

One morning this month, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up unannounced at the home of a New York-based currencies trader for Deutsche Bank.

The agents showed him transcripts of an electronic chat in which the trader appeared to boast about trying to manipulate foreign-exchange markets, according to people familiar with the incident.

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