Royal Bank of Canada Abandons MBIA Suit
NEW YORK (
) --
Royal Bank of Canada
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dropped its suit Friday against
MBIA
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a day after
JPMorgan Chase
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and
Barclays
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did the same over a long running dispute regarding the insurers' reorganization plans.
Royal Bank of Canada filed a "discontinuance order" in New York State Supreme Court in its case against MBIA, according to a
Bloomberg
report, citing court documents.
Calls to Royal Bank of Canada and MBIA were not immediatley returned. The RBC action comes a day after both JPMorgan and Barclays dropped out of the same lawsuit.
The lawsuit opposes MBIA's restructuring plans that included designs to create a new company capitalized with $5 billion in assets and the ability to write new business. The remaining MBIA assets left a questionable amount of capital to cover outstanding guarantees, the lawsuit argued.
Other firms that continue to be part of the lawsuit include
Royal Bank of Scotland
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,
BNP Paribas
( BNP),
Citibank
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,
HSBC
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,
Credit Agricole
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, among several others.
MBIA shares are down two cents, at $11.85, in current trading