Court overturns Christian Bittar's conviction for Euribor rate rigging

The Court of Appeal has quashed former Deutsche Bank trader Christian Bittar's 2018 conviction for rigging the Euribor benchmark, making him the eighth trader exonerated.

• The Court of Appeal quashed Bittar's 2018 fraud conviction for manipulating the Euro interbank offered rate.
• Five former Barclays traders — Jay Merchant, Jonathan Mathew, Philippe Moryoussef, Alex Pabon and Colin Bermingham — had their convictions quashed on Wednesday.
• Bittar said: "I have waited a very, very long time for this day."
• Peter Johnson, the only trader still convicted of rate rigging, has filed provisional grounds to appeal his conviction.