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  • Fannie Mae has priced its second credit risk transfer (CRT) deal of the year wider than the previous offering, as market concerns over the agencies' CRT programme lead investors to demand wider spreads.
  • Coventry Building Society launched a new RMBS shelf on March 17, with a £474.3m prime buy-to-let deal issued through its subsidiary Godiva Mortgages.
  • An increase in US interest rates could be a shot in the arm for the private label RMBS market this year, as higher yields could generate more interest among investors previously sitting on the sidelines.
  • JP Morgan Chase has become the first large financial institution to securitize residential mortgages under the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) safe harbour rules.
  • Concerns over regulation and liquidity mean ABS issuers are turning more to covered bonds this year, though there is hope that 2016 will see an increase in capital relief trades, according to panellists at IMN’s Global Covered Bond conference in London on Monday.
  • A break in macroeconomic volatility over the past several weeks has opened up a window for secondary spreads in many ABS asset classes to stabilise, and in some cases reverse some of the widening that took place over the first six weeks of 2016.
  • Unión de Créditos Inmobiliarios’ second post-crisis RMBS deal was priced tight on Thursday, coming at a level which deterred some investors from taking part.
  • New risk weighting requirements in Russia could make securitization “unfeasible” in the country, according to a senior ABS banker.
  • Freddie Mac has priced STACR 2016-HQA1, the government sponsored agency’s second credit risk transfer (CRT) deal of the year.