Deutsche Bank, asset managers and investors have agreed to settle their long-running dispute over the bank’s alleged failure to fulfill its obligations as trustee to more than 500 trusts backed by legacy residential MBS valued at more than $570 billion.
Finance of America – a Blackstone Group portfolio company – has agreed to pay $14.5 million to the government to resolve allegations that its operating subsidiary, Gateway Funding Diversified Mortgage Services, knowingly endorsed ineligible loans, resulting in losses to the FHA insurance fund.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has filed a complaint and a proposed settlement against a Nevada lender for misleading borrowers on the benefits of VA streamline refinancing.
Mortgage servicers are waiting anxiously for a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act applies to non-judicial foreclosures.
A California court last month dismissed a borrower’s attempt to bring a class-action lawsuit against Caliber Home Loans over a security breach at the nonbank lender in early 2017.
Law firm Rosicki, Rosicki & Associates, along with two affiliates, has agreed to settle a civil lawsuit alleging the companies systematically defrauded Fannie Mae and the Veterans Administration by routinely overcharging them and submitting false bills for foreclosure and eviction-related expenses.
A federal district court in Manhattan agreed to halt legal proceedings in an investment compa-ny’s challenge of U.S. Bank’s billing practices until the primary residential MBS case involving the two parties is resolved.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal to hear a case relating to interest payments on mortgage escrow accounts and preemption of state laws has created uncertainty for lenders and servicers, according to lawyers for Bank of America, which sought a review of the case by the top court.
Santander Consumer USA, a Dallas-based subprime auto lender, agreed to pay nearly $12 million to settle allegations that it misled consumers about its add-on products to auto loans. This is the 10th enforcement action brought by the CFPB under Acting Director Mick Mulvaney.
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