Seven world’s largest banks have announced on Tuesday settling a private lawsuit for $324 million filed in connection with ISDAfix scam. The settlement still requires court approval to get effective. Several other banking giants are yet to settle related lawsuits for the crimes committed during 2009 to 2012.
UBS AG has agreed to pay $69.8 million to NCUA in settling a lawsuit centering selling of faulty residential mortgage based securities. Prior to that, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, Wachovia, Morgan Stanley and other accused financial institutions have also settled respective lawsuits with NCUA. However, all the settlements have taken place through realization of incurred losses from the faulty RMBS products.
U.S. authorities are on course to reach multi-billion-dollar agreements with five major banks over allegations of foreign exchange market rigging as soon as the second half of May, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday.
Royal Bank of Scotland and Barclays may have to pay some of the biggest bills from an estimated $52 billion in fines and other litigation costs facing Europe's banks in the next two years, Morgan Stanley analysts said.
