Foreign-exchange options are the latest issue to come under scrutiny

A regulatory probe that flamed up in one corner of the vast foreign-exchange market is now engulfing the entire industri.

The latest conflagration: concerns about a type of foreign-exchange derivative that is widely used by financial institutions and companies world-wide, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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