HSBC Agrees To Pay $5.25 Million Settlement To NCUA
Monday, March 19, 2012
Last week, the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) announced a settlement agreement with HSBC. HSBC hs agreed to pay $5.25 million to the NCUA for a complaint about its sale of residential mortgage-backed securities to five failed credit unions. The settlement agreement does not require HSBC to admit fault.
Similar to FDIC and the banks it oversees, the NCUA charges the credit unions it oversees with fees to cover failed credit unions and to protect depositors' assets. The NCUA uses the Temporary Corporate Credit Union Stabilization Fund (TCCUSF) to cover failed corporate credit unions. In this instance, the true risk of the mortgage-backed securities sold to corporate credit unions allegedly wasn't disclosed and led to the failed credit unions. Any payments the NCUA collects is used to offset future fees the NCUA charges for the TCCUSF.
The NCUA had filed five lawsuits against various securities firms, and had negotiated settlements with Deutsche Bank Securities ($145 million) and Citigroup ($20.5 million).
Corporate credit unions provide various services (e.g., short-term loans, check clearing, electronic funds transfers, ATM networks) to the consumer credit unions they serve. Consumer credit unions are the credit unions which we consumers join. Corporate credit unions are chartered by the NCUA or states.
In its 2010 annual report, the NCUA listed the following corporate credit unions:
Corporate Credit Union Name | State | Assets (Mill) | Members |
---|---|---|---|
Corporate America CU |
Alabama | $3,701.7 | 369 |
First Corporate | Arizona | $979.4 | 51 |
Western Bridge Corporate Federal | California | $16,756.3 | 1,010 |
System United Corporate Federal CU | Colorado | $2,091.3 | 363 |
Southeast Corporate | Florida | $2,561.5 | 390 |
Georgia Corporate Federal CU |
Georgia | $1,737.1 | 171 |
Iowa Corporate Central CU |
Iowa | $108.2 | 159 |
Members United Bridge Corporate Federal | Illinois | $10,012.9 | 2,166 |
Kansas Corporate | Kansas | $302.3 | 148 |
Kentucky Corporate | Kentucky | $363.3 | 105 |
Louisian Corporate | Louisiana | $146.7 | 172 |
Eastern Corporate | Massachusetts | $507.5 | 278 |
Tricorp | Maine | $617.1 | 184 |
Central Corporate | Michigan | $2,394.3 | 359 |
Missouri Corporate CU | Missouri | $501.0 | 223 |
Treasure State Corporate CU | Montana | $386.3 | 63 |
First Carolina Corporate | North Carolina | $1,917.7 | 172 |
Midwest Corporate | North Dakota | $181.7 | 60 |
Corporate One Federal CU | Ohio | $2,881.1 | 768 |
MidAtlantic Corporate | Pennsylvania | $3,025.7 | 888 |
Volunteer Corporate | Tennessee | $1,351.7 | 256 |
Southwest Bridge Corporate Federal | Texas | $7,745.3 | 1,377 |
VA Corp | Virginia | $1,056.5 | 229 |
Corporate Central CU | Wisconsin | $1,623.7 | 281 |
West Virginia Corporate Federal CU | West Virginia | $228.1 | 110 |
U.S. Central Bridge Federal | Kansas | $18,412.9 | 56 |
Total | $81,591.1 | 10,428 |
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