Ex-Centerview Banker Gets Deal to End US Insider-Trading Case

Federal prosecutors have reached a settlement to eventually drop criminal charges against a former Centerview Partners LLC investment banker who was accused of participating in an international insider-trading ring and has been living in her native Thailand for years.

In 2019, Darina Windsor and her then live-in boyfriend in London, Benjamin Taylor, were accused of passing inside information on 22 companies from late 2012 to early 2018. Prosecutors claimed the pair, who referred to each other as “Pops” and “Popsy” in emails, made more than $1 million from the scheme.

According to a deferred prosecution agreement, securities fraud charges will ...