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The Federal Housing Finance Agency announced new leadership appointments under the new acting director Sandra Thompson on Tuesday, kicking off a wave of people and policy changes to come in at the agency. -
After one of the busiest quarters for ABS since the financial crisis, many market participants are eyeing a short break in August in anticipation of a slower market. The combination of working-from-home culture, lack of travel opportunities and physical meetings has prevented many in the market from taking a break.
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Following release after his imprisonment for contempt of court, Rizwan Hussain has launched a new attack on legacy RMBS transactions managed by Bluestone Mortgages, purporting to have taken over as a director of the SPV and attempting to replace crucial transaction parties with his own entities. Whether he has authority to do so is not yet clear.
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Jefferies appointed Crescent Capital's former CLO head Melissa Weiler and Ellis Kirk Group's CEO Matrice Ellis Kirk to its board of directors, starting from July 1.
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ABS lawyers are asking issuers to resist taking advantage of a legal loophole left via a regulatory quirk, where a number of CLO and CMBS deals are technically exempt from switching data over to the securitization repositories approved by the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on Friday.
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Securitization is set to receive a sustainability makeover later in 2021 when the European Banking Authority finalises its mandate. Market participants are asking for better capital treatment to put ABS on a level with covered bonds, but others worry political influence could leave the market behind, writes Tom Brown.
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Deutsche Bank has hired Alex Danehy as head of US CLO syndication, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Danehy joins from JP Morgan, where he was an executive director responsible for CLO origination.
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Rhode Island Employees' Retirement System has allocated $250m to Sycamore Tree and Neuberger Berman to invest in CLO equity and mezzanine tranches, following a new strategy that targets CLOs rather than real estate investment trusts (Reits) and master limited partnership (MLPs).
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European banks are rushing to finalise the first synthetic ABS transaction to achieve a ‘simple, transparent and standardised’ (STS) verification. The debut deal, which marks a turning point for the significant risk transfer market, has already been signed and is set to arrive in the coming months.
