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Participants hope new structure could bring more foreign and domestic buyers to US RMBS
Agency gives market a month to respond to its first proposed changes its 2012 framework was following the 2008 crisis
Lender will consider a bridging RMBS once it reaches a suitable scale
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Bad debt investors are knocking on the doors of French banks, anticipating a rise in defaulted loans as the Covid-19 crisis worsens. But France is unlikely to see much NPL securitization due to a lack of pressure from regulators.
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pushed back the date for lenders to comply with its ‘qualified mortgage’ rule by more than a year, easing conditions for homeowners and lenders, but potentially opening the door to riskier underwriting.
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Obvion has mandated Rabobank and Société Générale for its €500m Storm 2021-1 transaction, offering a single tranche to investors with a 75bp coupon over three-month Euribor, expected to price above par. The transaction is the issuer’s first since the Covid-19 lockdowns began.
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UK RMBS could see marginal losses from the government’s Grenfell inquiry pushing the cost of removing flammable cladding on up to 1.5m flat owners across the country, after DBRS Morningstar research revealed on Monday that repossessions could eat into securitized mortgage portfolios.
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If the UK government is serious about reversing the trend in declining homeownership it needs to do more than the half-hearted guarantee on a narrow subset of loans announced in this week’s Budget.
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Citi is securitizing a €300m legacy Irish portfolio of buy-to-let loans acquired from Permanent TSB, carving out the pool from a €1.1bn collection acquired last October.
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Barclays has structured a new mortgage master issuer vehicle, raising the prospects of a return to RMBS funding for a bank which has been absent from the market for nearly a decade. The new vehicle uses the same revolutionary technology present in Coventry Building Society’s Economic Master Issuer deal, which slashes the time, cost and complexity of running these structures.
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The amount of significant risk transfer (SRT) transactions executed by US institutions tripled over the past year, a trend expected to continue in 2021 as the synthetics space makes up for lost time after the pandemic. The extension of simple, transparent and standardised (STS) rules into the sector will also help bring first-time issuers into the market, said panellists speaking at IMN’s Virtual Investors’ Conference on Significant Risk Transfer on Wednesday.
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The significant risk transfer secondary market, a historically inactive sector, had its biggest year ever in 2020, with over $1bn traded as investors either sold to switch to other asset classes or were made forced sellers by margin calls, said panellists at IMN’s 2021 Virtual Investors’ Conference on Significant Risk Transfer on Wednesday.