American Banker-

A practical, well-executed plan, even one with disappointingly modest goals, will deliver more than an overly ambitious plan, easily subverted, that, in hindsight probably had no hope of ever succeeding.

When a judge approved the state attorneys general settlement with five mortgage servicers on April 5, the consent decrees issued by federal bank regulators mandating foreclosure reviews at 14 servicers – including the five in the multistate settlement – were already a year old.

[AMERICAN BANKER]