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The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has encouraged banks not to record mortgage loans with payment moratoriums as being in default, delaying default related triggers designed to protect noteholders and causing concerns around RMBS deal performance. -
The UK chancellor has doubled the mortgage moratorium period to six months, but has not allowed mortgage lenders more discretion when deciding to grant payment holidays on their mortgages. This is making RMBS performance difficult to assess, market participants say.
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European securitization bids wanted in competition (BWIC) volume has already reached €4.6bn in 2020, the highest level since JP Morgan's research team began collecting BWIC data in 2016. The secondary market is rallying following an improved equity market and a reopened European primary.
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Levels on offer in the public securitization markets didn’t hit Pimco’s targets for class B notes in its new Irish RMBS, Fingal Securities, while placement of the class 'A' notes lent heavily on a group of pre-sounded accounts to derisk the deal's execution.
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New ABS contracts are being written to exclude pandemics from the scope of ‘force majeure’ clauses, inserted to allow servicers to step away from their commitments if events outside of their control – such as the outbreak of Covid-19 – stop them from servicing portfolios.
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Barclays is leading the race to reopen the European RMBS market with an €807m Irish deal, Fingal Securities, a piece of the 'Project Porto' portfolio it bought from Bank of Scotland in 2018, with joint leads BNP Paribas and Bank of America joining sole arranger Barclays to help price the deal.
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Portuguese mortgage lender UCI doubled the universe of European green securitization issuers when it privately placed its RMBS Green Belém No 1, a deal backed by Portuguese mortgages, at the end of April. The deal had originally been slated for public debut before the coronavirus crisis hit, but was pre-placed in private following March’s market chaos.
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The coronavirus pandemic has led to widespread consumer and household balance sheet pressure. With lay-offs and furloughs cascading across industries, there is the likelihood many will be unable to meet basic needs while the economy remains shut down, and servicing debt becomes less feasible the longer the crisis goes on.
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Kate Fulton is joining the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) as chief operating officer as part of the agency's broader restructuring plan announced in January, which aims to prepare the government sponsored enterprises to exit conservatorship.
