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  • The Department of Housing and Urban Development has provided the state attorneys general with the results of its investigation of banks’ robo-signing practices.
  • Government demand that banks buy back some $120 billion in bad mortgages is slowing the U.S. economic recovery, says Paul Miller, an analyst with FBR Capital Markets.
  • The settlement between state attorneys general and banks over their so-called robo-signing practices will not free financial institutions from litigation involving mortgage securitization practices, according to Geoff Greenwood, a spokesman for Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller.
  • Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, said U.S. banks’ exposure to the peripheral European countries—namely, Greece, Ireland and Portugal—is small and manageable.
  • Prudential Mortgage Capital has hired Scott Heath as a loan officer responsible for originating commercial mortgage-backed loans for securitization by the Liberty Island Group.
  • Kensington Mortgages, the London-based home lending subsidiary of Investec, is being tipped for a return to the U.K. residential mortgage securitization arena.
  • Frank Byrne has left UBS as global head of securitization.
  • London-based residential mortgage-backed securities officials have their sights on a re-opening of the primary issuance market, with new trades being whispered for the second half of September and early October.
  • U.K. buy-to-let lender Paragon Mortgages is still on track to roll out a new issue residential mortgage-backed deal this year, despite the recent turmoil that has shut off the new issue securitization market in Europe since June, officials at the firm have said.