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In a rare public rebuke of a rogue attorney general by his colleagues has highlighted the dysfunction among the state AGs and raised doubts about their ability to strike a settlement deal with the largest mortgage servicers.

CIT Group closed a new $2 billion revolving credit facility with a bank syndicate.

A U.S. Appeals Court upheld a lower court ruling rejecting claims by FICO that a new credit score developed by credit bureaus Experian, Equifax and TransUnion infringed on its trademark and ordered the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to cancel a FICO trademark.

A U.S. District Court judge in Oregon issued a pair of rulings in favor of Merscorp subsidiary Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems (MERS), but it remains unclear how those rulings will impact MERS' appeal of a third case where a second federal judge vacated an Oregon borrower's nonjudicial foreclosure.

Italian bank UniCredit SpA yesterday priced its €1 billion, 10-year covered bond at 215 basis points over midswaps, according to Dow Jones report.

Investors looking to block the $8.5 billion settlement of claims related to losses on Bank of America MBS have moved the case to federal court, a Reuters report indicated.

The August remittance reports showed default rates at 9.4, 9.7, 10.5, and 11.0% CDR for the 06-1 through 07-2 indices. These, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch analysts, represent changes of -0.5, -1.5, -0.7, and +0.3 points, respectively.

There is an increased likelihood of a government action to spur refinancings, JPMorgan Securities analysts noted in a report released yesterday.

3Point Asset Management, Irvine, Calif., has hired Ron Millar as AVP in charge of sales and trading.

Warren Buffett's $5 billion public vote of confidence in Bank of America, happily for him, does not require actual confidence. The terms of the legendary investor's deal, which grants Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway $5 billion in perpetual preferred stock and warrants to buy BofA stock at just over $7 a share, include no lockup period.