Nomura, RBS face U.S. mortgage trial; $1 billion damages at stake
By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. housing regulator is set to take two of the world's biggest banks to trial on Monday to try and recoup more than $1 billion in damages over mortgage bonds sold to government-run mortgage finance companies ahead of the 2008 economic crisis. Lawyers for the regulator will face off with attorneys of Nomura Holdings Inc and Royal Bank of Scotland …