Showing posts with label Foreclosure Settlement Deal With Feds. Show all posts
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Monday, January 14, 2013

Ten Big Banks to Pay $8.5 billion In New Foreclosure Settlement Deal With Feds


Ten major mortgage servicing banks agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle charges that they wrongfully foreclosed on millions of homeowners in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, particularly through "robo-signing" practices, when banks automatically signed off on foreclosures without properly reviewing documents, according to a statement released jointly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.