Financial Industry Developments - Federal Reserve Board Announces Finalized Rule Adjusting the Board's Maximum Civil Money Penalties - On January 18, 2017, the Federal Reserve Board announced that it was adjusting...more
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...more
On September 23, DBRS published the methodologies it will use to rate and monitor U.S. Property Assessed Clean Energy securitization. On September 22, Moody’s published its updated rating methodology for consumer loan-backed...more
No Intervention for Class of Homeowners in Suit Against HSBC - On August 25, 2014, Judge Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied a motion brought by a class of putative...more