Lawsuit for Investors who traded Odd-Lots of Corporate Bonds in the secondary market announced by Shareholders Foundation

SAN DIEGO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / April 29, 2020 / The Shareholders Foundation, Inc. announces that an investor, who purchased odd-lots of corporate bonds in the secondary market, filed a lawsuit against several big banks alleging they conspired to keep billions from small bond traders.

Investors who purchased and sold odd-lots of corporate bonds in the secondary market, you might have certain options and should contact the Shareholders Foundation at mail@shareholdersfoundation.com or call +1(858) 779 – 1554.

The lawsuit was filed against Bank of America Securities, Inc, Barclays Capital Inc., Citigroup Inc, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; Morgan Stanley, NatWest Markets Securities Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., and others.

The plaintiff claims that as a result of the defendants' conspiracy, certain investors paid more when buying, and received less when selling, their corporate bonds, suffering antitrust injury.

The plaintiff says that so-called "odd-lots" consist of any bond trade that is less than $1 million in par value, and that in 2017 and 2018, approximately 90% of corporate bond trades were less than $1 million in size,and that Corporate bond trades of less than $100,000 comprised approximately 70% of all trades.

The plaintiff claims that the defendants are market makers for both round-lots and odd-lots of corporate bonds and as such they provide both "bid" prices at which they are willing to purchase bonds and "offer" or "ask" prices at which they are willing to sell bonds, and that the difference between the bid price and the offer price is the "bid-offer spread".

The plaintiff says that by keeping the price at which Defendants buy bonds (the bid) lower than the price at which they sell bonds (the offer), Defendants capture the bid-offer spread as compensation for their market-making activities.

The plaintiff alleges that investors in the "odd-lots" persistently pay bid-offer spreads that are 25% to 300% wider than investors trading in round-lots of the same underlying bonds, and that there is evidence that supports the conclusion that the wider odd-lot bid-offer spreads paid by investors are the result of an anti-competitive, horizontal agreement among Defendants to restrict competition.

Those who purchased and sold odd-lots of corporate bonds in the secondary market, should contact the Shareholders Foundation.

CONTACT:

Shareholders Foundation, Inc.
Michael Daniels
+1 (858) 779-1554
mail@shareholdersfoundation.com
3111 Camino Del Rio North
Suite 423
San Diego, CA 92108

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SOURCE: Shareholders Foundation, Inc.

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