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The court ruled on Wednesday that no action taken by RBS executives amounted to fraud with relation to the mortgage-backed securities, according to the report, and two out of the three appellate judges shared this opinion. The majority opinion said that "[s]tatements of general corporate optimism, such as these, do not give rise to securities violations."

FHFA is said to be seeking $1 billion in damages over losses the Agency suffered when the sponsor of the mortgage-backed securities, Nomura, and the securities' underwriter, RBS, did not follow underwriting guidelines on 68 percent of a sample of a bundle of securities backing more than $2 billion worth of mortgages sold to the GSEs prior to the financial crisis of 2008.

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) may have to pay additional penalties to settle claims that it sold faulty U.S. mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the housing market crash, according to a report from Reuters.

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.

The FDIC has closed on a sale of securities as part of a securitization backed by approximately $471.3 million of performing single-family mortgages from 16 failed banks. This pilot program marks the first time the FDIC has sold assets in a securitization during the current financial crisis a method which could allow the federal agency to clear billions of dollars in seized loans from its books, while maximizing the value of these assets for the failed banks' creditors.

The FDIC has amassed a large portfolio of nonperforming real estate loans seized from failed banks. While the agency has managed to broker deals with most acquiring institutions recently to absorb ""essentially all"" of the failed banks' loans, some transaction announcements still contain the language, ""the FDIC will retain the remaining assets for later disposition."" In order to fast-track the sale of these assets, the FDIC is turning to the secondary market, with an offering of $409 million of mortgage bonds from 17 bank closings expected to price mid-week.