Ten banks have been fined for offering the retailer Toys R Us favorable assessments by their analysts if the company chose them to underwrite its initial public sale of shares. <br /><br /> The US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority levied fines totalling $43.5 million (35 million euros). <br /><br /> The banks involved included Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Barclays, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank. <br /><br /> Settling the matter, the firms neither admitted nor denied the charges.<br /><br /> In the end the initial public offering of shares by Toys R Us did not take place.
