NY POST-

Big banks have cut yet another settlement from the mortgage crisis at pennies on the dollar.

Wells Fargo, Royal Bank of Scotland and Deutsche Bank have reached a $165 million class-action settlement of investor claims over their underwriting for the now-bankrupt subprime lender NovaStar Mortgage.

The truce resolves claims that offering materials prepared by the banks misled investors into believing that loans underlying roughly $7.55 billion of NovaStar mortgage-backed securities they bought were properly underwritten, and were safe.

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