All this fear so the price of swaps go up. So if the government "restructure" will the bond holders force to take less interest?
"NEW YORK â More trouble piled up for Bank of America Corp. on Monday, as American International Group Inc. sued it for more than $10 billion, saying the bank cheated it by selling residential mortgage-backed securities that were overvalued."
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"AIG said Bank of America and two companies that were later gobbled up by the bank, Countrywide and Merrill Lynch, sold the insurance company $28 billion in securities backed by home mortgages between 2005 and 2007, at the height of the housing boom. It said it looked at more than 260,000 of the underlying mortgages, and found that the bank's "stated metrics" for 40 percent of the securities were false."
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"In June, Bank of America agreed to pay $8.5 billion to a group of investors for selling them poor-quality mortgage securities. AIG's suit is separate, but the company is raising questions about whether the settlement went far enough. On Friday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman urged the judge to reject the settlement, calling it unfair."
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"In January the financial institution paid $2.6 billion to settle buyback claims on home loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In April, the bank agreed to pay up to $1.6 billion to Assured Guaranty Ltd., an insurer that also pressed the bank to repurchase shoddy mortgages.
In March the Federal Reserve did not allow Bank of America to increase its dividend, citing uncertainty about the depth of its mortgage problems. It was the only denial issued to the four largest U.S. banks. And it raised questions over whether the bank was strong enough to withstand another economic downturn.
Christopher Whalen, managing director of Institutional Risk Analytics, believes the government will eventually have to step into restructure the company."
"You're having this accumulation of claims ... and it's very clear they can't pay them," Whalen said. "At some point, the government has to acknowledge that this bank has far too many liabilities, and they don't have the capital and earnings to deal with it."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44060932/ns/business/t/aig-sues-bank-america-b-over-mortgages/