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Volkswagen also added a UK auto ABS to the primary
Invictus, Annaly, JP Morgan to print a billion dollars each next week
UK lender has placed €1.5bn of Dutch prime RMBS paper this year, doubling its annual issuance
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Ring-fenced U.K. retail banks may be barred from originating, trading, lending and market-making in asset-backed securities on behalf of clients, under new recommendations set out Monday by the U.K. Independent Commission on Banking.
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A loan securitized in the EUR1.5 billion ($2.05 billion) commercial mortgage-backed securities deal Windermere X has come out of special servicing after the borrower E-Shelter GmbH & Co. cured outstanding payments that sparked an event of default in May.
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Demand for AA and A paper in Northern Rock’s U.K. Granite residential mortgage-backed securitization has picked up in the past week, with dealers looking to investors to take on longer-dated positions as confidence grows.
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Banks struggling for senior unsecured funding should be turning to ABS, investors argued this week. "ABS has never been so far inside senior," said a London-based fund manager. "I’m surprised that banks aren’t printing furiously in short end ABS, trying to grab funding while they can. ABS people have been through a crisis before. They’re not just going to sell out at the first hint of trouble."
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Paragon’s expected return to securitisation this quarter will need innovative structuring to address extension risk, market participants judge. While collateral in the UK buy-to-let player’s legacy deals has performed well, with best-in-class delinquencies and repossessions (ahead of some UK prime), Paragon could not call the deals during the crisis.
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The first half of 2011’s strong ABS new issue volumes reflected how fast outstanding issues were amortising, Barclays Capital analysts said in a note published this week. "In fact, they [amortisation cashflows] dwarf new issuance volumes to such an extent that they cannot only easily explain demand in the primary market, but have also resulted in further shrinkage of the volume of outstanding European ABS bonds."
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The residential mortgaged-backed securities market is buzzing over a list of more than 130 bankers named in a series of complaints lodged by the Federal Housing Finance Agency against banks it alleges sold bad RMBS to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. -
The American Securitization Forum is concerned a new ordinance approved today by Chicago’s City Council will set a “costly nationwide precedent,” for mortgage servicers possessing vacant properties.
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General Electric said it plans to vigorously fight the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency against its GE Capital unit and 16 other major lenders over residential mortgage-backed securities sold to Freddie Mac six years ago.
