NCUA Enters $445 Million Settlement with UBS in Lawsuit Alleging Untrue Statements in Connection with Sale of RMBS

 

On April 25, 2017, the National Credit Union Administration (“NCUA“), as liquidating agent for U.S. Central Federal Credit Union and Western Corporate Federal Credit Union, voluntarily dismissed its complaint against UBS Securities, LLC (“UBS“) and Mortgage Asset Securitization, Inc., in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas following a settlement between the parties. Under the terms of the settlement, UBS agreed to pay $445 million to end the NCUA’s five-year old lawsuit (the filing of the lawsuit was covered here). The NCUA’s suit involved claims for losses suffered by the two failed credit unions from allegedly untrue statements and omissions of fact by UBS regarding RMBS that it underwrote and sold. This settlement is in addition to the $79.3 million the NCUA also recovered from UBS in April 2016 for RMBS losses suffered by two other defunct credit unions. Voluntary Dismissal.