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Goldman Sachs will release its earnings statement for Q1 on Tuesday, April 19. How much will the recent $5 billion settlement affect the firm's profits?

It's the fourth-largest RMBS settlement reached between the government and one financial institution.

The investment banking firm's Q4 and full year 2015 earnings took a big hit as a result of the $5 billion residential mortgage-backed securities settlement announced last week.

The investment banking firm reached an agreement in principle to settle claims that it sold faulty mortgage-backed securities before the crisis.

Citigroup reported $4.3 billion in net income for the third quarter, or $1.35 per diluted share, up 53 percent from $2.8 billion, or $0.88 per share, in the same quarter a year ago. The bank also has revenues that reached $18.7 billion, down from $19.7 billion last year.

U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that there was no evidence that Goldman knew the securities would fail or that Goldman failed to disclose any known risk to the securities.

A judge in Austin, Texas, dismissed the lawsuits filed by the FDIC last year against the financial institutions, stating that a Texas law that required lawsuits to be filed within five years of the sale of the mortgage-backed securities superseded the federal law.

In August 2014, Goldman agreed to pay $3.15 billion to settle a lawsuit filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) alleging that Goldman sold toxic RMBS to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for which FHFA is the conservator.

The net income high at Goldman Sachs is mostly credited to the record first half results in Investment Banking and Investment Management. Net revenues for investment banking reached $2.02 billion for Q2, a 13 percent increase from Q2 2014 and 6 percent higher than Q1 2015.

Arbitrators from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) awarded the $80 million compensatory request to NAB plus interest amounting to approximately $20 million, according to reports, bringing the total amount Goldman was ordered to pay up to approximately $100 million.