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  • Friesland Bank’s Stichting Eleven Cities No. 8 Dutch prime residential mortgage-backed notes were not redeemed last month, despite the issuer’s intention to buy back all outstanding bonds on December’s payment date.
  • Prepayment speeds in Bank of America Home Affordable Refinance Program-eligible pools are poised to accelerate on the bank’s sale of $300 billion of residential mortgage servicing rights to Nationstar Mortgage and Walter Investment, according to Scott Buchta, head of fixed income strategy at Brean Capital.
  • Most assets underpinning European securitizations are set to continue to perform well this year, though the region’s commercial mortgage-backed market continues to feel the squeeze, analysts at the Royal Bank of Scotland said Monday.
  • Securitization professionals are welcoming the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s tweaks to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio, which will see higher-grade residential mortgage-backed securities eligible for inclusion.
  • By Shanker Merchant, managing director in investment banking at CastleOak Securities, a New York-based boutique investment bank.
  • The U.K. continues to dominate securitization issuance volumes in Europe, accounting for more than half of all placed issuance last year—but asset-backed securities bankers in London reckon Dutch issuers will likely be first out of the blocks in 2013 with new trades.
  • The credit quality of existing UK mortgage portfolios is likely to fall in the coming years as rising interest rates cause stress in interest-only loans, Fitch ratings said on Friday.
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    UK mortgage lending is ticking up sharply as the effects of the Funding for Lending Scheme begin to be felt.
  • London-based securitization bankers are hopeful that a modest tightening in U.K. residential mortgage-backed spreads in the coming weeks could see publicly executed trades reaching levels comparable to funding in the U.K.’s Funding for Lending Scheme for some banks.