Yet another Shakespearean banking tragedy opened this week, with Standard Chartered starring this time as the villainous rogue. The day of reckoning will be Wednesday, when the New York Department of Financial Services will hear the bank’s defence against charges of hiding the involvement of Iranian government clients in 60,000 wire transactions, worth at least $250bn. Call it the Ides of August.

上周银行业又有一出莎士比亚悲剧上演，此次扮演卑鄙恶棍的是渣打银行(Standard Chartered)。“审判日就是周三（8月15日），届时纽约州金融服务局(New York state Department of Financial Services)将听取渣打的辩护证词，该行此前被控隐瞒参与伊朗政府客户约6万笔、至少价值2500亿美元的电汇交易。此次事件完全称得上是“八月风云。

That hearing will focus on “wire stripping. Standard Chartered employees allegedly hid the fact that wire transfers to New York were coming from Iranian government-owned institutions by stripping out references to Iran from wire instructions. Standard Chartered called this a “repair procedure, and insists it was permitted.

法庭聆讯将以“电汇代码消除(wire stripping)为焦点。渣打员工涉嫌通过删除电汇指令中提到伊朗的部分，隐瞒汇往纽约的款项来自伊朗政府下属机构的事实。渣打将此类操作称作“修正流程，并坚称其符合法规要求。

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