The New York Fed Working to Bend Real Estate Law to Suit Needs of Banks « naked capitalism

The New York Fed seems to be trying figure out how to let the banks off the hook for their transgressions. 


The New York Fed Working to Bend Real Estate Law to Suit Needs of Banks « naked capitalism

So the real reason that industry is having trouble with foreclosures and servicers are losing money has absolutely nothing to do with the reasons suggested by the Fed. Two of the three are due to the industry running roughshod over the law. MERS was vetted only on a Federal law level; no review was ever undertaken of whether it would work under the laws of all the states. It was brazenly assumed that if MERS was imposed, the states would roll. That proved to be a tad optimistic. The second reason, the abandonment of established procedures, is fraud pure and simple. The packagers and trustees lied in the PSAs and the ongoing certifications.

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