In addition, these rating actions, as well as the related deal and tranche performance information, are available in spreadsheet form on kbra.com in the accompanying KBRA
RMBS Surveillance KCAT.
To settle the charges that it failed to reasonably supervise its traders, Nomura agreed in the two orders to be censured and to reimburse customers the full amount of firm profits earned on any
RMBS or CMBS trades in which a misrepresentation was identified, paying over $20.7 million to
RMBS customers and over $4.2 million to CMBS customers.
RMBS ratings, Fitch collects mortgage production data and information on many of the active participants in the sector.
The bank has signed a deal with the Department of Justice to end a lengthy investigation into its legacy securitisation, issuance and underwriting of
RMBS issued between 2005 1nd 2007.
24509) Juan Ospina and Harald Uhlig examine new data on the prices of non-agency
RMBS. They find that total losses in the non-agency
RMBS market through December 2013 were less than $350 billion, about 6.5 percent of their pre-crisis market value.
As part of the agreement, DOJ said, Morgan Stanley acknowledged in writing that it failed to disclose critical information to would-be investors about the quality of the loans backing the
RMBS and also about the firm's due-diligence practices.
The outstanding pool balance of Greek
RMBS transactions rated by Moody's decreased by 11.8% to EUR 2.15 bln in April from EUR 2.44 bln a year earlier.
Noting that
RMBS trusts have "become a familiar subject of litigation" in the Second Circuit, the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's denial of class standing.
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RMBS -- Moody's Approach
"This is the
RMBS Working Group's most recent legal enforcement targeting misconduct in the
RMBS market, but it will not be our last," said Associate Attorney General Tony West, in a press release.
AIG's underlying lawsuit alleges that financial institutions that created and/or sold the
RMBS provided offering materials that assured AIG that each mortgage loan met certain quality standards.
Last month, however, the FRBNY publicly reversed itself and provided Bank of America, the successor to Countrywide Financial, with declarations from two FRBNY executives stating, among other things, that AIG transferred to Maiden Lane II through the APA all "litigation claims" relating to the
RMBS that Maiden Lane II acquired.
