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  • Lehman Brothers Holdings has decided that it will not appeal a U.S. Bankruptcy Court ruling that upheld the sale of its North American business in 2008 to Barclays Capital.
  • The Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would reinvest proceeds from its mortgage-bond securities into the market has spurred a rally in the MBS market.
  • Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas) is pressing Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, to make public, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act, a report by the central bank of bank compensation structures and what the Fed has done about executive bonus and incentive programs at the large banks.
  • London-based Bishopsfield Capital Partners has hired Arjan van Bussel from the Royal Bank of Scotland as a partner in the firm’s structured finance advisory team, with a focus on commercial real estate capital markets.
  • An attorney for a group of 22 mortgage bond investors involved in a settlement with Bank of America told a federal judge the proposed $8.5 billion mortgage-backed securities pact was very positive.
  • Some investors stayed away from the newest residential mortgage-backed securitization from Redwood Trust, the $368 million Sequoia Mortgage Trust 2011-2, because it carried credit ratings from just one agency, Fitch Ratings.
  • Moody’s Investors Service has downgraded Bank of America, Citigroup and Wells Fargo as a result of the declining probability that the federal government would bail them out again in a future crisis if necessary.
  • The lawsuits filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency on behalf of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac against 17 banks over their marketing of mortgage-backed securities are seen as weak.
  • The Association of Financial Guaranty Insurers says Credit Suisse has been misleading by understating its obligation to buy back bad loans packaged into mortgage-backed securities that the Swiss bank issued.