[导读：路透社消息称，德意志银行（Deutsche Bank AG）已同意支付2.4亿美元，以了结其参与共谋操纵伦敦同业拆借利率（London Interbank Offered Rate，“Libor”）案的美国反垄断诉讼。Libor是指伦敦的大型银行之间短期资金借贷的利率，是国际金融市场中大多数浮动利率的基础利率，被银行用来为数百万亿美元的信用卡、抵押贷款、学生贷款和其他交易设定利率，并确定相互借贷的成本。德意志银行是第三家解决所谓“场外”投资者索赔的银行。此前，花旗集团（Citigroup Inc.）和英国巴克莱银行（Barclays Plc）已在类似案件中分别同意支付1.3亿美元和1.2亿美元。为解决全球范围内的Libor操作案调查，到目前为止，涉案银行已经支付了大约90亿美元。（本文源自路透社网站。）]

NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank AG (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay $240 million to settle private U.S. antitrust litigation accusing it of conspiring with other banks to manipulate the Libor benchmark interest rate.

The preliminary settlement with the German bank was disclosed in filings on Tuesday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, and requires a judge's approval.

Deutsche Bank is the third bank to resolve claims by so-called "over-the-counter" investors that transacted directly with banks on a panel to determine Libor.

Citigroup Inc (C.N) reached a similar $130 million settlement last July, while the British bank Barclays Plc (BARC.L) settled for $120 million in November 2015.

Deutsche Bank denied wrongdoing, but settled to avoid the risks, costs and distraction of litigation, court papers show.

A spokesman, Troy Gravitt, said the bank was pleased to settle.

Libor, or the London Interbank Offered Rate, is used by banks to set rates on hundreds of trillions of dollars of credit card, mortgage, student loan and other transactions, and to determine the cost of borrowing from each other.

Investors including the city of Baltimore and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut had accused 16 banks of conspiring to manipulate Libor, in the private litigation that began in 2011.

Michael Hausfeld, a lawyer for the investors, in a statement called the Deutsche Bank settlement "an excellent achievement for the class."

Banks have paid roughly $9 billion to settle Libor-rigging probes worldwide. Last July, the head of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority said that regulator will phase out Libor by the end of 2021, citing a lack of data to underpin it.

The case is In re: Libor-Based Financial Instruments Antitrust Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 11-md-02262.