{"id":5661,"date":"2014-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.blawgcloud.com\/2014\/09\/securities_lawsuit_accuses_deu"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:43:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T15:43:44","slug":"securities-lawsuit-accuses-deu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/securities-lawsuit-accuses-deu\/","title":{"rendered":"Securities Lawsuit Accuses Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse, and Other Banks of Manipulating ISDAfix"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Alaska Electrical Pension Fund is suing several banks for allegedly conspiring to manipulate ISDAfix, which is the benchmark for establishing the rates for interest rate derivatives and other financial instruments in the $710 trillion derivatives market. The pension fund contends that the banks worked together to set the benchmark at artificial levels so that they could manipulate investor payments in the derivative. The Alaska fund says that this impacted financial instruments valued at trillions of dollars. <\/p>\n<p><strong>The defendants are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/bank-of-america-background-information.html\">Bank of America Corp. 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