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The £500m trade is the joint largest non-bank credit card ABS, matched by CoT’s previous deal
Lendco also added a UK BTL RMBS to the pipeline
This is the second RMBS deal from the PIF-backed issuer
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The rising number of foreclosure starts on delinquent U.S. mortgages will ultimately depress home prices by as much as 10% before they start to stabilize, according to Fitch Ratings.
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The government may have to offer double-digit yields on unguaranteed tranches of single-family mortgage-backed securities to attract investors, according to analysts.
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Starwood Property Trust has boosted its investments in residential mortgage-backed securities as real estate investment trusts look to alternatives for placing their cash. In
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MarketAxess has added non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities and commercial mortgage-
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European banks are slower than their U.S. counterparts in unloading toxic mortgage assets.
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Investec Bank’s new £204 million ($327.4 million) securitization of U.K. residential mortgages, Gemgarto 2011-1, is being called as a positive step for the RMBS market as more details of the trade emerged Monday. -
Dutch mortgage lender Obvion has priced its EUR700 million ($958.2 million) prime residential mortgage-backed deal, STORM 2011-IV, offloading the senior bonds Friday to investors at 120 basis points over three-month EURIBOR.
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Barclays Bank’s decision to offer RMBS for the first time since the crisis marks the asset class’s return to competitiveness, but few other issuers are in a position to benefit, according to ABS bankers. As many from traditional covered bond jurisdictions do not even have RMBS programmes available, they face lengthy structuring and rating processes before tapping the market.
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Despite its potential to improve liquidity and investor interest in the asset class, structured finance players are complaining that key questions over the ECB’s demand for loan level data on ABS remain unresolved and opaque. Most pressing, in the light of an appointment this week to build a data warehouse, is the issue of who will pay for the initiative.
