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Newrez settles pay-to-pay case amid class certification push

Newrez has agreed to settle a pay-to-pay case with a consumer who was moving to certify a proposed class of at least thousands of aggrieved individuals.  Processing Content Borrower Eugenio Alvarez sued the company in 2024, accusing its servicing subsidiary Specialized Loan Servicing of up-charging borrowers with $7.50 fees to process mortgage payments via telephone.

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Clash of titans: GSIB proposal pits megabank against megabank

Key takeaway: JPMorganChase and Bank of America objected to the proposed removal of risk-weighted assets from the denominator of the short-term wholesale funding component of the GSIB surcharge, arguing the change could distort how regulators measure a bank’s reliance on short-term wholesale funding.  Expert quote: “The removal of the [short-term wholesale funding] denominator causes the

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