The Federal Reserve Board recently brought a consent order against Morgan Stanley to deal with what it characterized as a pattern of misconduct and negligence in residential mortgage servicing and foreclosure processing at the Wall Street firm’s Saxon Mortgage Services subsidiary, once the 34th largest mortgage servicer in the United States. “As noted in the announcements relating to the 2011 enforcement actions, the Federal Reserve believes monetary sanctions are appropriate and plans to announce monetary penalties in these cases,” the Fed said. The monetary penalties...