McGladrey: National Mortgage Settlement Compliance Appointment

By Rob Starr, Content Manager, Big4.com

McGladrey LLP will be one of five professional services firms that will monitor and ensure compliance to provisions of the national mortgage settlement by the nation’s five largest banks. Michael Sher, a McGladrey partner based out of the firm’s Chicago headquarters office comments:

“McGladrey has extensive experience monitoring agreements between Quasi Government Agencies and large lending institutions,” he said. “We are currently monitoring compliance of more than a million assets under these contracts and we are looking forward to leveraging our deep understanding of both these agreements and of financial institutions in general to ensure compliance with every aspect of this significant settlement.”

As an appointed firm, McGladrey will be responsible for providing support to Joseph A. Smith, Jr. (former North Carolina Commissioner of Banks), Monitor of the national mortgage settlement, over a three-and-a-half-year period as he and his teams oversee the implementation of and compliance with the settlement, which involves 49 states and the United States government, in addition to the banks. The national mortgage settlement created new servicing practices that will require better communications with borrowers, provide financial relief to distressed home borrowers, and provide funding for state and federal governments.

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