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Nomura has now teamed up with Bank of America and Morgan Stanley, which are said to be considering repackaging some $1.5 billion of collateralized debt obligations into a AAA-rated tranche as a re-remic, if it holds the winning bid for CDOs from the Federal Reserve’s Maiden Lane portfolio.
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Trading of commercial mortgage-backed securities has slowed over the past week ahead of a sale of collateralized debt obligations originated by American International Group by the Federal Reserve’s Maiden Lane III portfolio.
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Freddie Mac continued to reduce the size of its mortgage portfolio, shrinking at an annualized rate of 2.9% in March, after declining 3.3% and 4.8% in February and January, respectively.
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Fitch Ratings commented on the announcement by Infonavit, Mexico’s state lender, will begin originating fixed-rate mortgage in June that peso-denominated residential mortgage-backed securities could follow within six to 18 months.
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The rate for loans 30 days or more delinquent fell to 7.09% in March, 8.8% lower than a year earlier, according to Lender Processing Services.
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U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo the Blackstone Group have acquired $740 million U.S. loan portfolio from German lender Eurohypo.
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Andre Vollmann, a senior asset-backed securities portfolio manager at Cairn Capital, has reportedly left the firm in London.
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Spanish lender BBVA says it has raised core Tier 1 capital ratio from 8.9% to 10.7% as required by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision three months before the deadline and did so without sales of strategic assets, the help of government funds or cuts in dividends.
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Credit Suisse reported that profit plunged 96% in the first quarter to CHF44 million ($48.17 million) from CHF1.1 billion ($1.2 billion) a year earlier, thanks in part to a charge on the value on its debt and scaling back of its investment-banking business.