The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged RBS Securities Inc., the wholesale banking subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland, with misleading investors in a 2007 subprime residential mortgage-backed security (RMBS) offering. RBS agreed to settle the matter and pay more than $150 million, which the SEC will use to compensate investors for harm suffered as a result of the RBS deal.

Statebridge Company, LLC, a residential mortgage special servicer headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, announced that it has completed an investment in Statebridge by the private equity firm FrontRange Capital Partners, LLC. The size of the investment was not disclosed.

Schneiderman & Sherman, P.C., named Patricia Carey managing attorney for the firm's litigation group. As a litigation specialist for 18 years, Carey has taught trial skills to hundreds of law students and new attorneys both as a managing attorney and guest faculty member of the Committee on Regional Training.

A private-sector initiative launched by JPMorgan Chase in early 2011, the 100,000 Jobs Mission, is less than 8,000 positions from its goal. Member companies have collectively hired 92,869 U.S. military veterans through the third quarter of 2013, the organization recently reported. Firm's participating in the initiative are working toward a goal of hiring at least 100,000 veterans by the year 2020.

Technology is ever-evolving, and it's transforming the real estate industry, generating volumes of information about how people approach and conduct real estate transactions. To help Realtors understand and interpret these trends, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) hired Todd Carpenter to fill a newly created position, managing director of data analytics.

Clayton Holdings, LLC, a provider of loan due diligence, surveillance, and consulting services to the mortgage industry, announced Monday that Joe D'Urso has been named president and COO of the company, effective immediately. D'Urso will oversee all of Clayton's U.S. business units. In addition, Lorenz Schwarz has been named president of Clayton's Green River Capital business unit in addition to his current role of the business unit's COO.

Lender Processing Services (LPS) says concerns of a new wave of problem loans caused by rate resets on adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) are unfounded. The company's analysis shows 63 percent of outstanding hybrid ARMs have already reset. Besides, interest rates would have to rise a full 3 percent, or 300 basis points, for hybrid rates to increase; most of these borrowers are likely to see their rates go down, not up.

LRC Asset Management, a majority-owned company of Loan Resolution Corporation, announced the appointment of two VPs--Jason Dow as VP of REO operations and Natalie Drosi as assistant VP of closing oversight. Both are based in the company's Scottsdale, Arizona, headquarters and between them, have more than 27 years' industry experience.

Seventy-one percent of single-family homes in the United States were built before 1990, according to a new industry report. So far this year, 60 percent of residential transactions involved homes built prior to 1990. This older housing stock comes with less competition from other buyers and lower price points, and the Federal Housing Administration's 203(k) program allows owner-occupants to roll the cost of minor and major renovations into the financing for a home purchase or a mortgage refinancing.

A new study from the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate reveals immigrant Asian and Latino homeowners were more successful at holding onto their homes during the Great Recession than native-born homeowners. The researchers found that while most homeowners took an economic hit during the recession, the decline in homeownership and headship rates among the immigrant population was nonexistent in some metro areas.