Chapter 11 Filing for WMC Mortgage

Apr 23, 2019

A week after General Electric agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement to resolve federal claims involving the alleged misrepresentation of sub-prime loans originated by its former sub-prime mortgage subsidiary WMC Mortgage, the company has announced a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for WMC.

According to a Reuters report, WMC only has $175,000 cash on hand. General Electric’s GE Capital unit purchased WMC in 2004, which originated more than $65 billion of mortgages from 2005 to 2007 before problems arose on the quality of its originations and underwriting.

“This filing is another important step in the de-risking of GE Capital,” said a GE spokesperson in a statement. “GE and GE Capital are not part of the filing and the case has no adverse impact on our business operations.”

WMC said the bankruptcy enable the completion of a $198 million settlement over its 2006 packaging 5,000 mortgages into securities sold to investors, and it would resolve the last of 14 lawsuits it faced over residential mortgage-backed securities, following $870 million of settlements of the other 13 lawsuits.

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