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Seven years after the crisis brought the reliability of credit ratings into question, parts of the sector are still in need of reform, issuers, investors and ratings officials told a standing room only crowd on day one of ABS East.
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The heat was very much on in Miami, where IMN registered more than 4,000 attendees for its 21st annual ABS East conference, held at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach this week.
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GlobalCapital is once again proud to be the lead media partner for IMN’s ABS East conference in Miami Beach. We’ll be providing you with daily conference news online and in our ABS East daily papers, which you will find around the Fontainebleau on Thursday and Friday.
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are on track with the development of the common securitization platform and issuance of the single security, but investors who were hoping the platform could do anything to aid in the resurgence of the private label MBS market were disappointed.
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“…Everyone take stiff drink, look at the balance on your 401k statement at the end of last month, and if that doesn’t tell you that markets are global I don’t know what does.” – Richard Johns, executive director, Structured Finance Industry Group
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Last month Moody’s Investors Service announced it would be taking comments on a proposal to loosen its criteria for rating single borrower CMBS. Let's hope this is not part of a ratings race to the bottom.
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What if securitization was just a convenient halfway house before the next evolution of finance?
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European regulatory authorities are finding pseudo-reasons to ease back on regulation. That’s easier than admitting they were wrong the first time.
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The UK wants more competition in the banking market, and sure enough, challengers are springing up. But why would you want a banking licence in this day and age?