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Financial Services Litigation/Lender Liability

Demystifying MERS

By Peter J. Van Zandt and Claudia L. Williams

MERS is an acronym for Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. Some choose to cynically portray MERS as a tool created by the "big banks" to conspire against minorities and the poor, facilitate mortgage fraud and wrongful foreclosure, and cheat local counties out of recording fees, in reality, MERS is simply an electronic book entry system "created to facilitate the transfer of ownership interests and servicing rights in mortgage loans.

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