Colleen H. McDonald

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Firm/Organization: Reed Smith LLP
Blogs: Financial Regulatory Report, Lending Law Report

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Where do marketplace lenders and secondary loan market participants find themselves on the issue of preemption of state usury laws after the June 27 denial of the petition for a writ of certiorari in Madden v. Midland by the U.S. Supreme Court? In Madden v. Midland, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to follow the “valid-when-made” rule when considering the scope of federal preemption of state usury laws under the National…
Where do marketplace lenders and secondary loan market participants find themselves on the issue of preemption of state usury laws after the June 27 denial of the petition for a writ of certiorari in Madden v. Midland by the U.S. Supreme Court? In Madden v. Midland, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit refused to follow the “valid-when-made” rule when considering the scope of federal preemption of state usury laws under the National…
In Yvanova v. New Century Mortgage Corporation et al, the Supreme Court of California reversed the Court of Appeal’s ruling, and held that a borrower plaintiff who has been subject to a nonjudicial foreclosure has standing to bring an action for wrongful foreclosure based on an allegedly void deed of trust assignment (without making any determination as to whether the alleged facts established a void assignment).  In so doing, the Supreme Court came down solidly…
The People of the State of California and The City of Los Angeles (collectively, the “Plaintiff”) are seeking to hold Deutsche Bank National Trust Company and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as trustee under hundreds of mortgaged-backed securitizations (collectively, the “Trustee” or “Defendant”), liable for reparations on thousand of homes in the Los Angeles County area. In the complaint filed May 4, 2011 in Los Angeles Superior Court, the Plaintiff alleges that the Trustee disregarded…
The FDIC has given banks a temporary reprieve from the impact on their securitizations of the recent changes in GAAP, until March 31, 2010. By then, the FDIC has promised new securitization rules. The FDIC has stated (pdf) that it will issue new rules for bank securitizations in December 2009, which rules will likely impose mandatory structural changes to bank securitizations including credit risk retention, increased disclosures to investors, and more flexibility for servicers of…