{"id":6292,"date":"2018-05-17T19:45:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T19:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2022-03-22T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:57:51","slug":"royal-bank-of-scotland-settles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/royal-bank-of-scotland-settles\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Bank of Scotland Settles Mortgage Fraud Case for $4.9B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOnce again, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has arrived at yet another securities settlement related to its mortgage practices leading up to the 2008 housing crisis. This time, RBS is getting ready to pay almost $4.9B. The deal, reached with the US Justice Department, must still must be finalized. The DOJ had been investigating allegations that the British bank sold high risk loans between 2005 and 2007.<\/p>\n<p>CNN reports that since the economic crisis, RBS has paid about $28.4B in fines and settlements, including $500M to the state of New York earlier this year to settle allegations of misrepresentations made \u00a0and deceptive practices used on investors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/investor-claims\/investments\/\">residential mortgage-backed securities<\/a>.\u00a0 The bank settled for $5.5B with US Federal Housing Finance Agency last year to resolve allegations that it bundled and sold more than $30B of risky loans to government-sponsored enterprises Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae.<\/p>\n<p>RBS previously reached two settlements with the National Credit Union Administration. One, for $1.1BM in 2016, was over claims that it sold faulty mortgage-backed securities to credit unions. The other, for $129.6M, settled claims tied to alleged losses for corporate credit unions Southwest and Members United bought RMBSs. According to NCUA, RBS made misrepresentations when underwriting and selling the residential mortgage-backed securities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/royal-bank-of-scotland-settles\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Royal Bank of Scotland Settles Mortgage Fraud Case for $4.9B\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has arrived at yet another securities settlement related to its mortgage practices leading up to the 2008 housing crisis. This time, RBS is getting ready to pay almost $4.9B. The deal, reached with the US Justice Department, must still must be finalized. 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