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Browse: Home / 2014 / January / 10 / Wall Street Predicts $50 Billion Bill to Settle U.S. Mortgage Suits – NYTimes.com

Wall Street Predicts $50 Billion Bill to Settle U.S. Mortgage Suits – NYTimes.com

By Securities Docket on January 10, 2014, 9:51 am

Wall Street could pay nearly $50 billion to buy peace from federal authorities who are taking aim at the banks over their role in the mortgage crisis, according to interviews and a confidential analysis of the industry’s potential legal exposure.

Bracing for a potential reckoning, the banks and their outside lawyers are quietly using JPMorgan Chase’s record $13 billion mortgage settlement in November to do the math and determine just how much each bank might have to pay to move beyond the torrent of government mortgage litigation that has dogged them since the financial crisis. Such calculations, people briefed on the matter said, have gained particular urgency among the banks’ board members.

via Wall Street Predicts $50 Billion Bill to Settle U.S. Mortgage Suits – NYTimes.com

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