Christian Bittar, a former Deutsche Bank trader, has his conviction for rigging benchmark interest rates overturned. The Court of Appeal quashes his conviction after he was sentenced in relation to manipulation of Euribor, with outlets reporting the matter dates to a 2018 conviction.

Multiple reports note the timing of the decision: it comes days after several other former bankers also had their convictions cleared. Bloomberg, the BBC and the Financial Times all describe Bittar’s earlier plea and subsequent conviction, while The Guardian frames the development as the latest in a series of successful appeals. The coverage is consistent on the identity of the defendant, the case’s link to benchmark interest rates, and the role of the Court of Appeal in reversing the result. Together, the reports indicate an ongoing legal challenge affecting multiple people tied to the same or related allegations.