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  • BlackRock is looking to acquire U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities after Standard & Poor’s downgraded the nation’s sovereign debt, according to Rick Rieder, the investment manager’s cio of fixed income, fundamental portfolios. “
  • Ocwen Financial is planning to launch a new business that will securitize mortgages originated by Lender One.
  • Morgan Stanley said it will pay up to $1.7 billion in damages in four cases related to subprime mortgage-backed securities it structured in 2006 and 2007.
  • The $4.5 trillion agency residential mortgage-backed securities market has remained unfazed so far by Standard & Poor’s move to downgrade the government-sponsored enterprises one notch this morning.
  • Senior tranches of European residential mortgage-backed securities and consumer- loan asset-backed securities in Europe are being viewed as a “safe haven” from the fallout of the historic downgrade of the U.S. sovereign by Standard & Poor’s, according to London-based market participants.
  • The European asset-backed securities market is seeing a spike in retained deals, with investors expecting more to tap the European Central Bank’s liquidity program in the coming weeks as market uncertainty persists.
  • American International Group has become the latest firm to sue Bank of America-Merrill Lynch and its Countrywide Financial unit over losses it claims from investments in mortgage-backed securities.
  • Industry players are calling on Standard & Poor’s to supply the commercial mortgage-backed securities market with more information on how it plans to rate and monitor the sector.
  • Kamala Harris, the attorney general of California, is said to have subpoenaed Citigroup to provide information regarding the sale and marketing of mortgage-backed securities in the state by the bank and its Citibank subsidiary.