CS, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Barclays, RBS, BNP, & Deutsche

All persons or entities who, within the Class Period, directly entered into fixed-for floating, floating-for-fixed, or floating-for-floating interest rate swaps with the Dealer Defendants, or their respective affiliates, in the United States and its territories.

Interest Rate Swap transactions.

Conspiracy among major interest rate swaps (“IRS”) dealers (“Dealer Defendants”) to boycott Plaintiffs in order to undermine increased competition in the IRS market and thereby maintain the Dealer Defendants’ massive profits.

The complaint alleges that this case concerns a conspiracy among major interest rate swaps (“IRS”) dealers (“Dealer Defendants”) to boycott Plaintiffs in order to undermine increased competition in the IRS market and thereby maintain the Dealer Defendants’ massive profits.   By boycotting and thus destroying Plaintiffs’ trading platforms, all Defendants have succeeded in blocking IRS customers, such as pension funds and municipalities, from enjoying the benefits of greater price transparency and competition.