On January 30, 2013 a Party Discovery was filed involving a dispute between Hsbc Bank Usa, National Association, In Its Capacity As Trustee Of Nomura Home Equity Loan, Inc., Asset Backed Certificates, Series 2007-2, and Nomura Credit & Capital, Inc., for Commercial Division in the District Court of New York County.
August 04, 2022
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FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 EXHIBIT 46 FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 · ·1· SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. · · COUNTY OF NEW YORK ·2· ---------------------------------------x · · NATIXIS REAL ESTATE CAPITAL TRUST ·3· 2007-HE2, by COMPUTERSHARE TRUST · · COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, ·4· solely in its capacity as Separate · · Securities Administrator,· · · · · Index No. ·5 · · · · · · · · · ·Plaintiff,· · · · · 153945/2013 ·6· · · · · · -against- ·7· NATIXIS REAL ESTATE HOLDINGS, LLC, · · as successor-by-merger to NATIXIS ·8· REAL ESTATE CAPITAL INC., f/k/a · · IXIS REAL ESTATE CAPITAL, INC., ·9 · · · · · · · · · ·Defendants. 10· ---------------------------------------x · · NOMURA ASSET ACCEPTANCE CORPORATION 11· ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST, SERIES 2006-S4, · · by HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, 12· In its capacity as Trustee, 13· · · · · · · · ·Plaintiff, · · · · · · · -against- 14 · · NOMURA CREDIT & CAPITAL, INC., 15· · · · · · · · ·Defendant. · · ----------------------------------------x 16· NOMURA CREDIT & CAPITAL, INC., 17· · · · · · · · ·Third-Party Plaintiff, · · · · · · · -against- 18 · · WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. and OCWEN LOAN 19· SERVICING, LLC, 20· · · · · · · · ·Third-Party Defendants. · · Index No. 653390/2012 21· -----------------------------------------x · · · · ·(Captions continued on next pages) 22· · · · · · · · · · ·VOLUME I 23· ·VIDEOTAPED DEPOSITION OF ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES · · · · · · · · · New York, New York 24· · · · · ·Wednesday, February 21, 2018 25 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 Page 16 ·1· · · · · · · · ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES ·2· · · · · ·A.· · Not to my knowledge. 09:15:55 ·3· · · · · ·Q.· · When did Shauna leave Wells 09:15:56 ·4· Fargo? 09:15:58 ·5· · · · · ·A.· · I don't know exactly. 09:15:58 ·6· · · · · ·Q.· · Okay.· So you served as a 09:16:00 ·7· client services consultant from 2007 to 2012, 09:16:09 ·8· correct? 09:16:12 ·9· · · · · ·A.· · Yes. 09:16:13 10· · · · · ·Q.· · And then you became an Account 09:16:13 11· Manager I, correct? 09:16:18 12· · · · · ·A.· · Yes. 09:16:19 13· · · · · ·Q.· · What did you do as an account 09:16:19 14· manager? 09:16:21 15· · · · · ·A.· · This coincided with my new 09:16:21 16· position as part of the repurchase management 09:16:24 17· team.· So my specific title changed. 09:16:26 18· · · · · ·Q.· · When you say "new position," 09:16:32 19· what do you mean by that? 09:16:33 20· · · · · ·A.· · Um -- (clearing throat) sorry. 09:16:34 21· Excuse me.· So in 2012, the repurchase 09:16:38 22· function was carved out of the trustee 09:16:42 23· administration group and created -- and put 09:16:46 24· into a new team called the repurchase 09:16:49 25· management team. 09:16:50 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com YVer1f FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 Page 49 ·1· · · · · · · · ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES ·2· exactly who all was processing these, 09:48:14 ·3· processing purchases, because it was spread 09:48:19 ·4· out across the team.· I don't remember 09:48:21 ·5· specifically, but it, potentially, could have 09:48:24 ·6· been anybody that reported up to Lisa or under 09:48:27 ·7· Julie or the TBD. 09:48:30 ·8· · · · · ·Q.· · Would Beth have been involved 09:48:31 ·9· in that?· Beth Belfield? 09:48:33 10· · · · · ·A.· · Possibly, yes. 09:48:35 11· · · · · ·Q.· · How about in 2012? 09:48:36 12· · · · · ·A.· · In 2012, I believe that was the 09:48:37 13· year that Beth became the manager of the 09:48:40 14· repurchase management team.· And so, yes, she 09:48:41 15· would have been involved, to some degree, with 09:48:44 16· the processing of repurchases. 09:48:46 17· · · · · ·Q.· · And who else? 09:48:48 18· · · · · ·A.· · Myself and Joe Beacom. 09:48:49 19· · · · · ·Q.· · So other than yourself and Joe 09:48:52 20· Beacom, can you think of anyone else who would 09:48:54 21· have been involved in processing repurchase 09:48:56 22· demands in 2012? 09:48:59 23· · · · · ·A.· · I don't remember exactly when 09:49:00 24· Sarah Williams started, but she would have 09:49:02 25· been an additional person that would have been 09:49:04 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com YVer1f FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 Page 50 ·1· · · · · · · · ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES ·2· responsible for repurchase during the life of 09:49:06 ·3· the repurchase management team. 09:49:08 ·4· · · · · ·Q.· · How about in 2013; who would 09:49:09 ·5· have been involved in managing repurchase 09:49:12 ·6· demands? 09:49:14 ·7· · · · · ·A.· · It would have been the same. 09:49:14 ·8· The same people. 09:49:15 ·9· · · · · ·Q.· · The same people as 2012? 09:49:16 10· · · · · ·A.· · Joe Beacom, myself.· Sarah 09:49:18 11· Williams, depending on when she started.· Beth 09:49:22 12· Belfield. 09:49:24 13· · · · · ·Q.· · Can you think of anyone else? 09:49:24 14· · · · · ·A.· · I cannot. 09:49:26 15· · · · · ·Q.· · Okay.· And just moving on to 3C 09:49:27 16· where it says "Facilitate loan file review 09:49:33 17· requests for external customers." 09:49:36 18· · · · · · · · ·Do you know what that means? 09:49:39 19· · · · · ·A.· · Again, this was an area that I 09:49:41 20· did have some responsibility in 2011, but I 09:49:45 21· think I got more involved with this once we 09:49:49 22· became the repurchase management team. 09:49:52 23· · · · · · · · ·So it would have been -- my 09:49:54 24· involvement would have been more on the 2012 09:49:55 25· and beyond. 09:49:57 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com YVer1f FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 Page 359 ·1· · · · · · · · ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES ·2· be structured as product services if you were 17:16:33 ·3· in TAG? 17:16:37 ·4· · · · · ·A.· · I don't know. 17:16:38 ·5· · · · · ·Q.· · It says here, under 17:16:40 ·6· "Comments" -- do you see that; the first 17:16:45 ·7· comment on the far right?· "Please leave track 17:16:47 ·8· changes on and do not delete comments in this 17:16:51 ·9· document." 10· · · · · · · · ·Do you see that? 17:16:54 11· · · · · ·A.· · I do. 17:16:55 12· · · · · ·Q.· · Do you know whose comment that 17:16:55 13· is?· Is that yours or someone else? 17:16:58 14· · · · · ·A.· · I do not know who that is. 17:17:00 15· · · · · ·Q.· · Do the initials BA or AB ring a 17:17:02 16· bell to you? 17:17:06 17· · · · · ·A.· · They don't. 17:17:07 18· · · · · ·Q.· · Okay.· Well, if we go down 17:17:08 19· through this, this is the repurchase notice 17:17:13 20· request/inquiry protocol.· Do you know -- can 17:17:15 21· you explain to me what this is, generally? 17:17:20 22· · · · · ·A.· · My best recollection of this 17:17:23 23· procedure is that this is the one that 17:17:25 24· governed how to route items to -- back in 17:17:29 25· 2008, to TAG to be processed; repurchased 17:17:34 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com YVer1f FILED: NEW YORK COUNTY CLERK 08/04/2022 08:36 PM INDEX NO. 650337/2013 NYSCEF DOC. NO. 2667 RECEIVED NYSCEF: 08/04/2022 ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES - 02/21/2018 Page 360 ·1· · · · · · · · ALEXANDER HUMPHRIES ·2· items to be routed to TAG; if it came into 17:17:38 ·3· another group, how it was sent over to TAG. 17:17:41 ·4· · · · · ·Q.· · So was this your -- is it fair 17:17:44 ·5· to say that this might have been TAG's -- 17:17:46 ·6· TAG's way of telling other groups how to get 17:17:48 ·7· stuff; how to get repurchase requests or 17:17:50 ·8· repurchase notices to TAG? 17:17:54 ·9· · · · · ·A.· · So in 2008, items were coming 17:17:56 10· in at all different points of corporate trust 17:17:59 11· services, different groups would be receiving 17:18:01 12· items.· And once the process was centralized 17:18:03 13· in TAG, we needed to have a procedure that 17:18:05 14· would allow them to route things to us, 17:18:07 15· depending on how they received it.· So that's, 17:18:10 16· I believe, what this procedure is. 17:18:12 17· · · · · ·Q.· · Okay.· And do you see in 17:18:14 18· comment 2 there, the second comment bubble, 17:18:18 19· "Should this be MAS or MMG? 17:18:24 20· · · · · · · · ·Do you know what MMG is? 17:18:30 21· · · · · ·A.· · I don't remember what the 17:18:32 22· acronym is. 17:18:33 23· · · · · ·Q.· · And do you know what part of 17:18:34 24· this comment you added?· Because it appears 17:18:39 25· that they're your initials at the end of that 17:18:42 DTI Court Reporting Solutions - New York 1-800-325-3376 www.deposition.com YVer1f