{"id":5486,"date":"2013-08-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.blawgcloud.com\/2013\/08\/bank_of_america_jpmorgan_chase"},"modified":"2022-05-04T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:30:07","slug":"bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chase\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Among Banks Sued by Danish Pension Funds in Credit Default Swaps Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Danish pension funds (and their investment manager) Unipension Fondsmaeglerselskab, MP Pension-Pensionskassen for Magistre &amp; Psykologer, Arkitekternes Pensionskasse, and Pensionskassen for Jordbrugsakademikere &amp; Dyrlaeger are suing 12 banks accusing them of conspiring to take charge of access and pricing in the credit derivatives markets. They are claiming antitrust violations while contending that the defendants acted unreasonably to hold back competitors in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/credit-default-swaps-cds-sold-as-safe-are-potentially-toxic-wast.html\">credit default swaps <\/a>market.<\/p>\n<p>The funds believe that the harm suffered by investors as a result was \u201ctens of billions of dollars\u201d worth. They want monetary damages and injunctive relief.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Danish pension funds&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/credit-default-swaps-cds-sold-as-safe-are-potentially-toxic-wast.html\">credit default swaps <\/a>case, the defendants inflated profits by taking control of intellectual property rights in the CDS market, blocking would-be exchanges\u2019 entry, and limiting client access to credit-default-swaps prices, and<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/bank-of-america-jpmorgan-chase\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase Among Banks Sued by Danish Pension Funds in Credit Default Swaps Lawsuit\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Danish pension funds (and their investment manager) Unipension Fondsmaeglerselskab, MP Pension-Pensionskassen for Magistre &amp; Psykologer, Arkitekternes Pensionskasse, and Pensionskassen for Jordbrugsakademikere &amp; Dyrlaeger are suing 12 banks accusing them of conspiring to take charge of access and pricing in the credit derivatives markets. 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