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  • Janus Henderson filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday announcing the launch of an actively managed exchange-traded fund (ETF) set to outperform the Bloomberg Barclays US mortgage-backed securities Index, which are tracked by several MBS ETFs.
  • The Federal Housing Finance Agency has published new guidelines that would require Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government sponsored enterprises (GSEs) at the heart of the US RMBS market, to increase their loss reserves from $3bn to $180bn, worth roughly 325bp of their assets and off-balance sheet guarantees.
  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch, as sole arranger, together with joint leads Barclays, Citigroup, and Lloyds Bank announced a prime RMBS from Clydesdale Bank’s master trust programme on Wednesday.
  • Lloyds has attracted more than $1.3bn of interest for the dollar denominated 1.95 year triple-A '1A1' notes of its Permanent 2018-1 prime UK RMBS deal, as well over £800m of orders for the 2.8 year sterling triple-A ‘1A2’ tranche, with estimates of £1bn-£1.25bn in total issuance.
  • Freddie Mac has officially transferred more than $1tr worth of mortgage risk via its credit risk transfer (CRT) RMBS programme, bringing the total amount of mortgage principal risk shifted away from both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac since 2013 to over $2.25tr.
  • Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, a brokerage subsidiary of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, has agreed to pay $15.7m for defrauding customers and excessively marking up the value of securities while trading non-agency RMBS.
  • TwentyFour Asset Management on Wednesday mandated Bank of America Merrill Lynch as arranger for Malt Hill No.2, a buy-to-let (BTL) RMBS comprising mortgages originated by Coventry Building Society through its Godiva brand.
  • Clifden IOM, the controversial fund which unsuccessfully tendered for UK non-conforming RMBS from the RMAC series earlier this year, has launched another bid to squeeze cash out of a securitization. This time it is targeting Thrones 2013-1, which is sponsored by Mars Capital and is about to be refinanced.
  • Lloyds is weaning itself off the Bank of England’s Term Funding Scheme (TFS), tempting investors back to its RMBS programme with a dollar and sterling denominated offering, after an 18 month absence from the market.