{"id":2131,"date":"2018-03-09T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.institutionalinvestorsecuritiesblog.com\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:45:34","slug":"royal-bank-scotland-settles-nys-rmbs-fraud-case-500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/royal-bank-scotland-settles-nys-rmbs-fraud-case-500m\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Bank of Scotland Settles NY\u2019s RMBS Fraud Case for $500M"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tIn yet another mortgaged securities-related resettlement, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has agreed to pay $500M to settle New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman\u2019s case accusing the bank of misrepresentations and deceptive practices related to it sale residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS)<\/a>. $400M of the payment is consumer relief, while $100M is a fine that will go to the state.<\/p>\n

NY’s probe concentrated on 44 mortgage securitizations that RBS issued leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. The NY AG said that during that time, due diligence vendors cautioned the bank that a lot of the loans it was buying were not in compliance with underwriting guidelines. Still, the bank bundled the loans and touted them as secure to investors, many of whom bought the RMBSs.<\/p>\n

Schneiderman\u2019s probe found that some of the mortgages backing the bonds at issue had over 100% loan to value ratios, meaning that \u201cthey were \u2018underwater\u2019.\u201d Now, RBS is admitting that it sold mortgage bonds backed by loans that failed to abide by underwriting guidelines even as the bank maintained that they were, in fact, in compliance.<\/p>\n

The bank also acknowledged that it had limited how much diligence it performed on mortgages, resulting in a lot of the loans being securitized even though no due diligence was conducted at all.<\/p>\n

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In yet another mortgaged securities-related resettlement, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has agreed to pay $500M to settle New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman\u2019s case accusing the bank of misrepresentations and deceptive practices related to it sale residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). $400M of the payment is consumer relief, while $100M is a fine that will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3752,3757,4036],"tags":[2992,2650,2993],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-firms","category-mortgagebacked-securities","category-royal-bank-of-scotland","tag-fraud-case","tag-residential-mortgage-backed-securities","tag-royal-bank-of-scotland"],"yoast_head":"\nRoyal Bank of Scotland Settles NY\u2019s RMBS 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