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After markets closed on Friday the 13th, the U.S. Department of Justice ("DOJ") announced an $864 million settlement regarding Moody's credit ratings of residential mortgage-backed securities ("RMBS") and collateralized debt obligations ("CDOs") leading up to the financial crisis.

Moody's will pay a $437.5 civil penalty to DOJ to resolve civil FIRREA claims and another $426.3 million to resolve potential claims by 21 State Attorneys General. The agreement also requires Moody's to implement additional compliance measures.

Moody's release said the settlement "removes ...

On February 3, the Department of Justice and 19 State Attorneys General announced their $1.375 Billion settlement of DOJ's FIRREA suit and related State AG actions against Standard & Poor's and its parent McGraw-Hill Companies over ratings practices in CDO and RMBS securities contributing to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The companies entered a separate $125M settlement with Calpers, California's public retirement system. S&P will pay half the $1.375 Bn to DOJ (as a FIRREA "civil monetary penalty"), and the other half among the various State AG plaintiffs ($25M to Tennessee ...
Posted in: FIRREA, RMBS
The SEC and the Attorneys General of New York and Massachusetts this week fined Standard & Poor's almost $77 million, suspended S&P from conduit-fusion CMBS ratings work for a year and imposed other undertakings, for violations from 2010-2014. The SEC announced three settled administrative proceedings against the firm. The first settled charges that during 2010-2011 S&P changed the way it analyzed debt-service coverage ratios in a way that lessened credit-enhancement requirements in conduit-fusion commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) issues. The SEC also found S&P ...
Posted in: SEC

Maybe I'm just getting a head start on my "bah humbug" mood for the holidays, I don't know. Did it strike anyone else as discordant that almost a third of the record-setting JPMorgan RMBS settlement was ear-marked to fund "affordable housing / erase urban blight" policy initiatives? Is it right to fund the Administration's social policies through the settlement of civil litigation brought by DOJ? On November 19th, the Justice Department and various state AG's (among others) announced a $13Bn global settlement -- "the largest settlement with a single entity in American history" -- of ...

Posted in: FHFA, FIRREA, RMBS, SEC
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