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  • Eric Tashman of Sidley Austin has urged regulators to exempt power utility companies from plans to force securitizers to retain at least 5% of the credit risk of the assets collateralizing asset-backed securities.
  • FIG
    Damon Mahon will be joining Royal Bank of Scotland’s syndicate desk to work on securitisation, filling the spot left when Tim Michael went to Citi in September last year. Harman Dhami has been covering FIG and ABS simultaneously, while volumes in the ABS market have been growing (65% up year on year, according to research from Société Générale).
  • Former Goldman Sachs vets Alan Alsheimer and Martin Teevan have joined Ticonderoga Securities, a New York-based broker-dealer, to build its fixed-income platform.
  • The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. is said to have sold an estimated $400 million in commercial mortgage-backed securities in what observers say is a sign the agency may be planning to do more CMBS issuances in the future.
  • Royal Bank of Scotland researchers have recorded the first delinquency in the new generation of commercial mortgage-backed securities following the crisis, known as CMBS 2.0.
  • Stark Investments is planning to launch the RMBS CDS Opportunity Fund.
  • Fitch Ratings has expressed doubts whether the current high quality of residential mortgage-backed securities collateral will last.
  • Ginnie Mae reports an 8% decline in the volume of mortgage-backed securities it guaranteed in March. While issuance of Ginnie Mae I and Ginnie Mae II single-family pools fell, pools of reverse mortgages rose by about 8%.
  • Jefferies has expanded its fixed income division with the hiring of Paul Kopsky as a managing director in its military housing mortgage business.