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By Patrick Graham
LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Lloyds Bank's globalhead of foreign exchange spot trading has left the bank, citingpersonal reasons unrelated to the global investigation intocurrency market manipulation, sources with direct knowledge ofthe matter said on Tuesday.
Darren Coote had been with Lloyds in London since December2011, having previously worked for more than a decade for Swissbank UBS, one of the foreign exchange market's biggestplayers.
"He left for personal reasons," one of the sources toldReuters, speaking of Coote on condition of anonymity. Anotherconfirmed he had left the bank.
Lloyds, which suspended another of its foreign exchangetraders, Martin Chantree, earlier this year after an internalinvestigation into allegations of currency manipulation, said itwould not comment on individual employees.
More than 30 traders have left banks or been suspendedduring the investigation into whether leading banks rigged the$5.3 trillion-a-day currency market around daily "fixings",which set benchmark rates for companies and asset managersworldwide. (Editing by Jamie McGeever and David Goodman)