The National Credit Union Administration has filed a $629 million securities fraud lawsuit against RBS Securities, Wachovia Mortgage Loan Trust LLC, Nomura Home Equity Loan Inc., Greenwich Capital Acceptance Inc., Lares Asset Securitization Inc., IndyMac MBS Inc., and American Home Mortgage Assets LLC. The NCUA is accusing the financial firms…
According to six Federal Home Loan Banks, the investors of Countrywide Financial Corp.’s mortgage bonds may be entitled to three or more times more than what the proposed $8.5 billion securities settlement reached with Bank of America Corp (BAC) is offering. Bank of America acquired Countrywide in 2008. Under the…
Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC) has consented to pay $125 million to settle allegations that it misled investors about the risks involved in mortgage-backed securities. The plaintiffs in the class action securities lawsuit include a number of public pensions, including the New Orleans Employees’ Retirement System, Government of Guam Retirement…
Allstate Insurance Co., which bought over $104M in residential mortgage-backed securities in 6 offerings from Morgan Stanley between ‘05 and ’07 is suing the broker-dealer for securities fraud. The insurer claims that the financial firm sold it RMBS under the assurances that they were in alignment with “conservative” underwriting standards…
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff has ruled that Merrill Lynch must face a class action securities fraud lawsuit over mortgage-backed securities. The class of at least 1,800 investors consists of the buyers of 31 tranches of MBS in 18 different offerings that were sold between February 2006 and September…
This week, the National Credit Union Administration Board filed two securities fraud lawsuits accusing a number of financial institutions of misrepresenting the risks involved in the mortgage-securities that they sold to investors. The federal credit union is seeking a combined $800 million. JP Morgan Securities LLC, Novastar Mortgage Funding Corp,…
J.P. Morgan Securities LLC (JPM) has consented to pay $153.6 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it misled investors in 2007 when it marketed a synthetic collateralized debt obligation that was linked to the US housing market. The financial firm also agreed to a permanent bar from…
In MBIA Insurance Corp. v. Morgan Stanley, N.Y. Sup.Ct., No. 29951-10, the New York Supreme Court says that insurance company MBIA can sue Morgan Stanley and affiliates Saxon Mortgage Services Inc. and Morgan Stanley Mortgage Capital Holdings LLC for alleged misrepresentations about the risks involved in insuring residential mortgages that…
Federal regulators are proposing new risk retention rules geared toward reducing risky low mortgage lending. The ‘skin in the game” rule was articulated in the Dodd-Frank Consumer Protection Act, which mandates credit risk sharing and for mortgage-backed securities (MBS) sponsors and those of other asset classes to align their interests…
The Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations says that because Goldman Sachs Group Inc. bet billions against the subprime mortgage market it profited from the financial crisis. The panel’s findings come following a two-year bipartisan probe and were released in a 639-page report on Wednesday. The subcommittee released documents and emails…