花旗集团(C)has agreed to pay $590 million settle a shareholder class action collateralized debt obligation lawsuit filed by plaintiffs claiming it misled them about the bank’s subprime mortgage debt exposure right before the 2008 economic collapse By settling, Citigroup is not admitting to denying any wrongdoing. A federal judge has approved the proposed agreement.
Plaintiffs of this CDO lawsuit include pension funds in Illinois, Ohio, and Colorado led by ex-employees and directors of Automated Trading Desk. They obtained Citigroup shares when the bank bought the electronic trading firm in July 2007. The shareholders are accusing bank and some of its former senior executives of not disclosing that Citigroup’s CDOs were linked to mortgage securities until the bank took a million dollar write down on them that year. Citigroup would later go on to write down the CDOs by another tens of billions of dollars.
原告声称花旗集团采用了不当的会计惯例,因此没有人会发现其持股正在失去其价值,而是使用了被夸大的“不支持标记”,因此其“计划”可以继续进行。他们说,该银行告诉他们,它已经卖出了数十亿美元的抵押债务义务,但没有告诉他们保证证券免受损失。bob200体育股东声称要掩盖风险,花旗将担保人放在单独的帐户中。
在2008年经济崩溃之前,花旗已经承销了约700亿美元的CDO。它与其他华尔街公司一起忙于参加复杂证券的包装贷款的盈利,不断增长的业务。bob200体育当金融危机发生时,美国政府不得不以450亿美元的价格保释花旗集团,这家金融公司自此偿还。
这不是花旗集团与次级抵押和金融危机有关的第一个案件。2010年,花旗支付了7500万美元,以解决SEC的指控,该指控已向公众发出误导性陈述,甚至是其次级曝光程度,甚至承认它已经歪曲了该曝光率为130亿美元,或者在7月至10月中旬之间。2007年实际上超过500亿美元。花旗集团还同意向SEC支付2.85亿美元,以解决指控,即当它没有透露它有助于选择基于CDO的抵押证券时,它误导了投资者。bob200体育
This week, Citi agreed to pay a different group of investors a $25 million MBS settlement to a securities lawsuit accusing it of underplaying the risks and telling lies about appraisal and underwriting standards on residential loans of two MBS trusts. The plaintiffs, Greater Kansas City Laborers Pension Fund and the City of Ann Arbor Employees’ Retirement System, had sued Citi’s Institutional Clients Group.
这一耗资5.9亿美元的花旗集团是迄今为止CDO的最大定居点,也是与经济危机有关的最大的。According to The Wall Street Journal, the two that outsize this was the $627 million that Wachovia Corp. (WB) agreed to pay over allegations that investors were misled about its mortgage loan portfolio’s quality and the $624 million by Countrywide Financial (CFC) in 2010 to settle claims that it misled investors about its high risk mortgage practices.
花旗集团in $590 million settlement of subprime lawsuit,《纽约时报》,2012年8月29日
花旗的5.9亿美元和解:排名,2012年8月29日
花旗集团表示要支付7500万美元来解决SEC次级案件,彭博,2010年7月29日
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