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The U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency has put off making a decision on whether to allow principal reduction on loans issued by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Freddie Mac has announced a $1 billion offering of structured pass-through certificates, multifamily mortgage-backed securities known as K-certificates. The deal is the sixth from the K shelf.
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Real estate investment trust Western Asset Management has announced plans to raise $160 million in an initial public offering and to use the proceeds to investment in mortgage-backed securities from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Andrea Enria, chairman of the European Banking Authority, said in a speech that the EBA should have the authority to develop a single rulebook for banks, including uniform standards for core Tier One Capital.
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Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is said to be considering the creation of a bad bank to hold lenders’ toxic assets in an effort to avoid a bailout similar to those of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
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Standard & Poor’s has downgraded 16 Spanish banks, with Banco Santander and its Banco Espanol de Creditor unit hit the hardest, after gross domestic product figures for the first quarter indicated that Spain has fallen back into recession.
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Italian lenders have acquired more government debt than any other of their peers in Europe and did so using inexpensive loans from the European Central Bank, according to the ECB.
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National Australia Bank is exiting U.K. commercial property lending market and will shut many offices its Yorkshire Bank and Clydesdale Bank units and eliminate some 1,400 jobs.
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Anders Borg, Sweden’s finance minister, said efforts by the European Union to reach a deal on bank capital rules will fail unless the E.U. allows countries to set their own higher requirements for their domestic banks.