(Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC agreed to pay $42.5 million (26.6 million pounds) in a settlement with the Nevada attorney general after an investigation into the bank's mortgage funding practices, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. "The payment from RBS will alleviate some of the injury to the Silver State and its residents. The changes to its securitization process should help make sure that we do not go down this road again," the newspaper quoted Nevada's attorney general, Catherine Masto, as saying in a statement. The investigation found that RBS formed joint ventures with mortgage lenders Countrywide Financial Corp and Option One during the housing boom, to make...
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