A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed ICAP Capital Markets, which was rebranded last year to NEX Group, from a class action litigation alleging that the broker dealer and some US banks conspired to prevent the trading of interest rate swaps on electronic exchanges.
NEX Group welcomed the decision by the US Southern District of New York, saying that the plaintiffs did not provide evidence to support their claims which were, according to the company, “variously conclusory, insufficient to state a plausible claim, and inadequate to support an inference of participation in any wrongdoing.”
The case is related to a pension fund’s antitrust lawsuit alleging that ICAP, Tradeweb and several banks blocked market participants from trading the instruments on exchanges to preserve their profits. As a result of this collusion, the suit alleges, two platforms and a dozen megabanks, including Goldman Sachs and Bank of America, were able to limit competition from non-banks in the lucrative US$320 trillion market for interest rate swaps.
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