VOLKSWAGEN EMISSIONS: The question is, who else did the same?

Banking and the car sector have tried to do what they can get away with, not what is right, says Mark Gilbert

There’s never just one cockroach. We learned that from the market-rigging scandals in recent years.

Be it the London Interbank Offered Rates (Libor), currencies, metals, oil or… (you get the picture), it turned out that every bank and broker that touched every market benchmark left grubby fingerprints of fraud, collusion and deceit.