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In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published its Spring 2018 rulemaking agenda; the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced that it will seek public comments on whether its 2013 Disparate Impact Regulation is consistent with the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v.
Barbour County has been awarded $7,858 in federal funds made available through the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program.
We tend to associate the word "brutality" with physical violence, especially violence at the hands of the state. It calls to mind police shootings, torture and war.
In the classic movie film, "Gone with the Wind," the owner of the Tara plantation admonished his daughter for remarking that she didn't care about her home. In a sharp rebuke, Gerald O-Hara declared that "land was the only thing worth living for, worth fighting fora worth dying for."
Royal Bank of Scotland, RBS, said on Thursday it has agreed to pay US$4.9 billion to settle US claims that it misled investors who bought securities backed by risky mortgages in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The tentative settlement with the US Department of Justice marks a watershed moment for RBS, which was bailed out by British taxpayers after a series of acquisitions briefly made it the largest bank in the world before it collapsed a decade ago.
Shares in Royal Bank of Scotland rose as much as 6 percent on Thursday after it secured a far lower than expected settlement with U.S. authorities, paving the way for a long-awaited return of cash to British taxpayers who provided support during the financial crisis. The $4.9 billion fine resolves a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into the bank's sale of mis-priced mortgage-backed securities before the financial crisis and clears one of the most debilitating hangovers for the bank from that era.
Royal Bank of Scotland said Thursday it has agreed to pay $4.9 billion to settle U.S. claims that it misled investors who bought securities backed by risky mortgages in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis. The tentative settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice marks a watershed moment for RBS, which was bailed out by British taxpayers after a series of acquisitions briefly made it the largest bank in the world before it collapsed a decade ago.
Royal Bank of Scotland said it reached a tentative agreement to pay a $4.9 billion penalty to resolve a long-running U.S. probe into its packaging and sale of mortgage-backed securities before the 2008 financial crisis. While most of the cost will be covered by money the company already set aside, the deal will cut second-quarter earnings by $1.44 billion, the bank said in an emailed statement.
Europe's biggest bank by assets said that this would likely be the only share buyback this year, as CEO John Flint looks to invest instead in the bank's twin homes of Britain and China in a bid to boost returns. The bank's shares fell 2.5 percent in London by 0750 GMT, in a sign of immediate investor scepticism that the bank's new investments will pay off after years spent focusing on cutting unprofitable parts of the business.
Is the down payment keeping you up at night? Rest easy: We debunk some myths that may have misled you about this crucial step of the home-buying process. If you're thinking about buying your first home, that pesky down payment has probably kept you awake more than a few nights.
A college student confronted House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi at an on-campus event sponsored by Georgetown University's Institute of Politics on Tuesday, challenging her rhetoric referring to the GOP-passed tax cuts and related bonuses as " crumbs ." Other Democrats have followed suit , sneering at the tangible benefits being experienced by everyday American families -- all thanks to a law that people like Pelosi wrongly predicted would inflict "Armageddon" on the US economy and trigger "the end of the world."
Federal Home Loan Mortgage and Federal Agricultural Mortgage are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, risk, dividends and earnings. Federal Agricultural Mortgage pays an annual dividend of $2.32 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%.
A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent pleaded guilty today to devising a wire fraud scheme that defrauded SunTrust Mortgage and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation of over $40,000, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. Shauna Kay N. Sutherland, 37, of Corpus Christi, Texas, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud before U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola Jr. of the Southern District of Florida.
Wells Fargo will pay US$1 billion to federal regulators to settle charges tied to misconduct at its mortgage and auto lending business, the latest punishment levied against the banking giant for widespread customer abuses. In a settlement announced Friday, Wells will pay US$500 million to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency , its main national bank regulator, as well as a net US$500 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau .
People pass a Wells Fargo bank in Los Angeles on Thursday. The banking company was hit with a $1 billion civil penalty Friday by federal regulators over "reckless, unsafe or unsound practices and violations of law" that cost customers millions of dollars.
General Electric Co's quarterly profit from continuing operations more than tripled on Friday, helped by strength in its aviation and healthcare businesses. FILE PHOTO: A pedestrian walks past a General Electric facility in Medford, Massachusetts, U.S., April 20, 2017.
In fostering a "Bottom-Up" culture, we need to take a good hard look at what we have become. In this age of "Top-Down", most of us are under the thumbs of corporations and their underling governments.
For the third time in less than two years, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a chapter 7 debtor who does not reaffirm secured debt or redeem the property must surrender the property. In re Woide , No.
You know what would have been a better idea? Making clear that the bill would be vetoed before Congress voted on it and began leaving town for their two-week break, with a shutdown looming. Republicans rubber-stamped the omnibus having been led by the White House to believe that Trump would sign it .
The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate and kept its forecast for three hikes in 2018 amid modest inflation Fed raises rates, keeps forecast for 3 hikes in 2018 The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate and kept its forecast for three hikes in 2018 amid modest inflation Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2DL2wlt Jerome Powell listens to President Trump announce him as Trump's nominee for Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington on Nov. 2, 2017. If confirmed, Jerome Powell will succeed Janet Yellen as chair of the US central bank.